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ComEd Conducting Illinois` First Community Energy Storage Pilot
ComEd recently announced the launch of a pilot project to test the use of battery storage technology to reduce the impact of power outages in residential areas where customers experience service interruptions, particularly in extreme weather events. ComEd's Community Energy Storage (CES) pilot is being conducted in Beecher, Ill., approximately 40 miles south of Chicago. The pilot will focus on ...
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Sandia National Laboratories’ Stanley Atcitty Wins Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Dr. Stanley Atcitty, an energy storage systems researcher at Sandia National Laboratories, has been named a winner of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). President Obama named 13 U.S. Department of Energy-funded researchers as recipients of the award which is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers, who are ...
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New IREC Report Guides States to Optimize Modern Electric Grid
A new in-depth guide released today by IREC will help states manage the grid redesign with new analytical tools and the benefit of lessons learned from states leading the way. More Americans are choosing increasingly economical and available distributed energy resources (DERs) — such as rooftop or community solar, energy storage and electric vehicles – and these DERs create new ...
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Duke Energy Renewables completes Notrees Battery Storage Project in Texas; North America`s largest battery storage project at a wind farm
Duke Energy Renewables, part of Duke Energy's Commercial Businesses, announced today the completion of its 36-megawatt (MW) energy storage and power management system at its Notrees Windpower Project in west Texas. The system completed testing and became fully operational in December, 2012. "Battery storage is an important innovation to address the variability of wind and solar energy ...
By Duke Energy
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Automaker Revenue from Alternative Services Will Reach Nearly $5.3 Billion by 2023
The adoption of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) is driving automakers to seek out new sources of revenue—both to take advantage of PEVs’ extensive vehicle data, energy storage, and communications capabilities, and to replace expected lost revenue due to the stabilizing or slowing of vehicle sales in mature markets. Among these new revenue streams are carsharing services, sales of ...
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Dowell Promote its Energy Storage Products to International Market
In the middle of this month, delegations from the United Kingdom and Thailand went to Changzhou factory. Accompanied by the staff of the International Department, they visited the product line independently developed by Dowell. In response to the customer's greatest concern for large-scale project capabilities and customization capabilities, the engineers introduced the large-scale energy storage ...
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September 10th Webinar for the Energy Storage Safety Working Group on Safety Validation and Risk Assessment R&D
On Thursday, September 10, the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE), together with Sandia National Laboratories, will present a kick-off webinar for the Energy Storage Safety Working Group on Safety Validation and Risk Assessment Research and Development. Information on current energy storage safety R&D across government, industry and academia will be shared, as well as ...
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C-Power Announces Upcoming Sea Trials for SeaRAY Autonomous Offshore Power System in Partnership with US Department of Energy and Department of Navy
C-Power is proud to announce it will commence six-month sea trials in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and U.S. Navy to test and validate the technical and economic capabilities of its SeaRAY autonomous offshore power system (AOPS). Initially conceived during a U.S. Department of Defense project, the SeaRAY AOPS provides in-situ power, energy storage, and real-time data ...
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Energy Storage Tracker 4Q12
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Energy Storage Tracker 4Q12 http://www.reportlinker.com/p01055986/Energy-Storage-Tracker-4Q12.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=Renewable_energy Government investments in energy storage and related areas (such as smart grid) are clearly bearing fruit, particularly in the ...
By ReportLinker
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SCE Adds an Additional 590 Megawatts of New Energy Storage Capacity to Its Clean Energy Portfolio
To further enhance the region's electric system reliability needs, Southern California Edison has signed long-term contracts for four projects totaling 590 megawatts of battery energy storage resources. The recently conducted solicitation and resulting contracts are in addition to the company's May acquisition of 770 MWs of energy storage procurement, one of the country's largest. These contracts ...
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Worldwide Capacity of Distributed Energy Storage Systems is Expected to Increase Nearly 10-Fold in the Next 3 Years
A recent report from Navigant Research analyzes the global market for distributed energy storage systems (DESSs), including global market forecasts for power capacity, energy capacity, and revenue through 2024. The focus of rapid innovation and intense competition, the market for DESSs has exceeded industry expectations for growth and market volume in recent years. Responding to this demand, ...
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C-Power Announces Upcoming Sea Trials for SeaRAY Autonomous Offshore Power System in Partnership with US Department of Energy and Department of Navy
C-Power is proud to announce it will commence six-month sea trials in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and U.S. Navy to test and validate the technical and economic capabilities of its SeaRAY autonomous offshore power system (AOPS). Initially conceived during a U.S. Department of Defense project, the SeaRAY AOPS provides in-situ power, energy storage, and real-time ...
By Sumo UK Ltd
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NREL Partnerships to help the grid accommodate more renewable energy
The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) announces five new partnerships that will award up to $6.5 million in federal funds to technical teams throughout the country. The cost-shared projects with industry, universities, and other stakeholders will address the challenge of enabling the nation's electric grid to handle increasing amounts of renewable energy. NREL is ...
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Revenue from Distributed Energy Storage Systems is Expected to Exceed $16.5 Billion by 2024
A new report from Navigant Research analyzes the global market for distributed energy storage systems (DESSs), including global market forecasts for power capacity, energy capacity, and revenue through 2024. One of the fastest-growing markets for energy storage globally, distributed energy storage is the focus of rapid innovation and intense competition. In particular, residential and commercial ...
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Energy Commission Awards Nearly $4 Million to Support Early-Stage Clean Energy Projects
The California Energy Commission recently (8/14) awarded $3.75 million to 25 early-stage, innovative projects as part of a portfolio of research investments that will help achieve the state’s climate and clean energy goals.The Energy Commission’s Electric Program Investment Charge program, which drives clean energy innovation and entrepreneurship, funds the California Sustainable Energy ...
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C-Power and BIRNS Connect on SeaRAY Autonomous Offshore Power System Demonstration
A key aspect of succeeding in business is building meaningful connections. That’s why BIRNS, Inc. and C-Power are pleased to announce their new partnership in support of C-Power’s demonstration of its SeaRAY autonomous offshore power system (AOPS) at the U.S. Navy’s Wave Energy Test Site in Hawaii. BIRNS is supplying BIRNS Millennium subsea connectors and cable assemblies for ...
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DOE announces awards for up to US$11m for new solar energy grid integration systems
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Steven Chu announced today the investment of up to $11.8 million—$5 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act—for five projects designed to advance the next stage of development of solar energy grid integration systems (SEGIS). The selections announced today are part of DOE's continuing work to help assure the nation's electrical grid ...
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Eos Energy Storage Supplies Energy Storage to Microgrid Developments for Electrifying Rural Communities in Nigeria
Eos Energy Storage, the leading manufacturer of safe, low-cost and long-duration zinc battery storage systems, today announced that it has partnered with EPC firm Nayo Tropical Technology Ltd. to deploy the company’s Aurora EnergyBlock™ battery energy storage system (BESS). Eos’ EnergyBlock is part of a project to bring power to underserved areas and will integrate into rural ...
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Results from the Energy Transition Project DESIGNETZ Presented
After more than four years of research and development work, the DESIGNETZ project (part of the SINTEG funding program), funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and led by E.ON, presented its results today. 46 project partners have been working together since the beginning of 2017 in the model regions of North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland to ...
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Nexamp Provides Non-Wires Alternative Solution for National Grid Substation in New York
Nexamp, together with National Grid, is addressing increased energy demand at the Coffeen substation in Watertown, New York with the construction of a new solar + storage facility that will eliminate the need for additional transmission lines or substation upgrades through a Non-Wires Alternative (NWA) approach. NWA projects are designed to reduce cost and complexity by using distributed energy ...
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