energy storage modeling News
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NREL Model Licensed to Improve Accuracy of Battery Simulations
The Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has licensed its Equivalent Circuit Battery Model to software developer ThermoAnalytics for use in its recently updated RadTherm software package. The model is a part of the Battery Module within RadTherm, which is used by engineers to simulate the performance of battery cells and optimize multi-cell pack designs. Before ...
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NREL Tool Finds Effective Behind-the-Meter Energy Storage Configurations
The Energy Department's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has used the Battery Lifetime Analysis and Simulation Tool (BLAST) to confirm that energy storage for demand-charge management can deliver attractive economic benefits. The analysis paired recent utility rate structures with historic data on solar photovoltaic electricity generation and commercial facility loads to evaluate ...
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NREL teams up on three ARPA-E Projects to optimize electric vehicle battery management and controls
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has joined DOE and research partners in launching the Advanced Management and Protection of Energy Storage Devices (AMPED) program with a kick-off meeting in San Francisco. Over the next three years, NREL engineers will work with teams led by Utah State University, Washington University, and Eaton Corporation ...
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4th Microgrid Global Innovation Forum in Washington, D.C. to Examine Latest Advances, Lessons Learned in N. America Deployments
The microgrid market opportunity in the U.S. is projected to double from $836 million in 2016 to $1.66 billion in 2020, according to GTM Research.* The drivers behind this include the need for greater grid reliability and resiliency, the integration and control of distributed energy resources into the grid, as well as the desire by commercial and industrial end users to control energy costs and ...
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New Reports From NREL Document Continuing PV and PV-Plus-Storage Cost Declines
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released its annual cost breakdown of installed solar photovoltaic (PV) and battery storage systems. U.S. Solar Photovoltaic System and Energy Storage Cost Benchmark: Q1 2021 details installed costs for PV systems as of the first quarter of 2021.Costs continue to fall for residential, commercial rooftop, and utility-scale PV systems—by 3%, 11%, ...
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Enesoon`s Zhicheng Tang Invited to Innovation Seminar Held at 22nd China Hi-Tech Fair
On November 12, Zhongguancun Information Valley, together with more than 30 regional cooperation cities, held the Future Technology Summit and Zhongguancun-Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau GBA Collaborative Innovation Seminar at the site of 22nd China Hi-Tech Fair in Shenzhen, China. Mr. Zhicheng Tang, chairman of the board of Enesoon Holding Group Limited, was invited to attend the conference and held ...
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SEPA, ESA Explore Utility Business Models for Energy Storage
Grid-connected storage can provide value as a resource to support renewable integration, provide grid services, and deliver customer benefits. A new report from the Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA) and the Energy Storage Association (ESA) summarizes the key factors that influence utility business models for energy storage and provides four case studies highlighting projects employing creative ...
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New York's First State-Owned Utility-Scale Energy Storage System Now Operating in North County
Governor Kathy Hochul this week (Aug 25) announced that New York's first state-owned utility-scale battery energy storage project is now operating in the North Country's Franklin County. The 20-megawatt facility installed and operated by the New York Power Authority connects into the state's electric grid, helping to relieve transmission congestion and pave the way for the utility industry and ...
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Emerging Business Models in Energy Storage Market Close the Gaps in Distributed Power Generation
Growing demand for distributed energy generation and energy storage system (ESS) technologies is producing new ESS business models, according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan. In Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, innovative models will open up opportunities for ESS original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), project developers, and ESS aggregators. In ...
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Concentrated solar power with thermal energy storage can help utilities’ bottom line, study shows
The storage capacity of concentrating solar power (CSP) can add significant value to a utility company’s optimal mix of energy sources, a new report by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) suggests. The report found that CSP with a six-hour storage capacity can lower peak net loads when the sun isn’t shining, enough to add $35.80 per ...
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EPRI Advances Distributed Energy Resources with New Public Model
The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) announced this weekthe release of an open-source distributed energy resource (DER) model, OpenDER, to support increased renewable energy capacity on the electric grid. The OpenDER model can be used to assess the static and dynamic behaviors of DER for planning and interconnection studies. EPRI also released a free public model specifications document ...
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The 50 States of Grid Modernization Q2 2021: States Explore Market Reforms and Mechanisms to Accelerate Storage and Microgrid Development
The N.C. Clean Energy Technology Center (NCCETC) released its Q2 2021 edition of The 50 States of Grid Modernization. The quarterly series provides insights on state regulatory and legislative discussions and actions on grid modernization, utility business model and rate reforms, energy storage, microgrids, and demand response. The report finds that 47 states, as well as the District of ...
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Renewable electricity could overtake coal-fired by 2040 according to federal forecasts
In the next two decades, the nation’s utility sector faces a transformation in which natural gas and renewable energy could become the dominant sources of electricity generation, according to projections from the federal Energy Information Administration (EIA). Among renewable generation sources, both wind and solar generation will surpass hydropower, which has historically been the main ...
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NYPA and NYSERDA Announce New Battery Energy Storage Technology
The New York Power Authority (NYPA) and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) this week (Feb 16) announced that a first-of-its-kind battery energy storage system (BESS) using patented, high-safety, lithium-ion (Li-ion) superCell technology is delivering energy peak shaving capabilities to NYPA's White Plains offices, as part of a demonstration project. The BESS ...
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Energy Storage Ecosystem Offers Lowest-Cost Path to 100% Renewable Power
As states reach higher toward 100% renewable operation, energy storage will be key to enabling a more variable power supply. But no single technology will be a silver bullet for all our energy storage needs. Rather, a portfolio of storage solutions makes best economic sense for future energy systems, according to a recent National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) analysis titled "Optimal energy ...
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Berkeley Lab Helps California Get to Zero Net Energy Homes
California has established ambitious goals to reduce energy consumption in buildings, including a policy goal for all new residential buildings to be zero net energy (ZNE) by 2020. Now the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has launched two projects to help the state meet its ZNE building goals. One project will provide detailed cost and performance ...
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New collaborative approach can reduce the cost of clean energy by US$550 billion over the next decade
The world can save an estimated US$550 billion on the cost of deploying clean energy technologies over the next decade, putting them on a path to cost competitiveness, if countries work together to accelerate innovation by unlocking global collaboration. This is one of the key findings in a new report, United Innovations: cost-competitive clean energy through global collaboration, published today ...
By Carbon Trust
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Hybrid CSP-PV gains create openings for 24-hour solar supply
Last month, Spain's Acciona and Abengoa resumed construction of the 110 MW Cerro Dominador CSP plant after receiving a notice to proceed (NTP) from project owners. The Cerro Dominador plant is a tower design with 17.5 hours of molten salt thermal storage capacity. Abengoa is acting as technology partner for the engineering and construction project. The plant will be joined with an operational ...
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New Solar Array and Battery Storage Complex at CMC Spring Valley the Largest of Its Kind in the State
Colorado’s largest solar array and battery storage facility of its kind was the focus on Wednesday of a public ribbon-cutting celebration at Colorado Mountain College (CMC) Spring Valley at Glenwood Springs. The project is 95% complete and is scheduled to reach commercial operation this fall. Community members, renewable energy experts, government officials and CMC students, including ...
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