On Tuesday, May 20 from 1 - 2 p.m. ET, Clean Energy State Alliance will host a webinar on the process of commissioning an energy storage system. Speakers include Dr. Imre Gyuk, Energy Storage Program Manager in the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, as well as Dan Borneo from Sandia, Matt Galland from Sunpower, and Laurie B. Florence from UL. The webinar will discuss the ...
With over 175 MW of projects installed today, and a pipeline of new endeavors which includes a 100 MW battery storage facility in Northern Ireland - AES is paving a path forward for energy storage systems. Speaking with GTM Editor Stephen Lacey, Vice President John Zahurancik discusses his company's experience and what lies on the horizon for the energy storage ...
Presentations from two peer reviews in September are now available. The Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions (CERTS) Transmission Reliability R&D Load as a Resource (LAAR) Program peer review included five presentations on September 20, 2012, hosted by DOE at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. DOE's Energy Storage Systems Program (ESS) conducted a peer review and update ...
SAE International will hold its annual Hybrid Vehicle Technologies Symposium on Feb. 21-22 at the Town and Country Resort & Conference Center in San Diego. Infineon Technologies is serving as Premier Partner for the event. The symposium will provide first-hand knowledge of recent innovations from leaders in the industry through specialized panel discussions and presentations. Attendees can ...
Adventist Health and ENGIE North America this week announced the completion of their solar and microgrid project in Paradise, California. The Feather River Health Care facility includes a one-megawatt hour energy storage system combined with 425 kilowatts of solar and new, permanent back-up generator. The new, integrated system is designed to deliver clean energy while ensuring energy resiliency ...
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability Energy Storage Systems Program, with the support of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), and in collaboration with a number of stakeholders, developed a protocol for measuring and expressing the performance characteristics for energy storage systems. The ...
We recently got a peek at Tesla’s Gigafactory factory. It’s being built in Reno, USA. When complete (which is estimated to be 2020) the factory will span a whopping 3000 acres. Tesla do not plan on stopping at one factory either, as you can hear in this report. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36903272 At SunGift we’ve been installing Tesla Powerwall energy storage ...
A recent Leaderboard Report from Navigant Research examines the strategy and execution of 12 leading energy storage systems integrators (ESSIs), including vendor profiles, ratings, and rankings, with the goal of providing industry participants an objective assessment of these companies’ relative strengths and weaknesses in the market. With battery prices continuing to decrease, increased ...
The Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability has released two reports on energy storage safety – “Overview of Development and Deployment of Codes, Standards and Regulations Affecting Energy Storage System Safety in the United States” and “Inventory of Safety-Related Codes and Standards for Energy Storage Systems”. The first report provides an ...
The Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE) has worked with industry and other stakeholders to develop the Energy Storage Safety Strategic Plan, a roadmap for grid energy storage safety that highlights safety validation techniques, incident preparedness, safety codes, standards, and regulations. The Plan, which is now available for downloading, also makes recommendations for ...
Watch this video to find out more … See how market leaders, Sun Gift Energy based in Exeter – UK, are part of the renewable energy industrial revolution with innovative energy storage systems. These systems provide 80%+ self consumption on site for homes and businesses, using TESLA batteries. ...
SimpliPhi Power, the leading U.S. manufacturer of safe, non-toxic, cobalt-free lithium ion energy storage systems, today announced its new AmpliPHI 3.8 kWh battery that merges clean tech with high tech to provide intelligent, data driven communication, delivering real-time information for seamless integration and optimization of energy storage systems. Integral to the advancement is the ...
NEC Energy Solutions announced recently (1/31) the completion of an energy storage system for Consumers Energy. The NEC energy storage solution, located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, includes two independent 280kW/340kWh DSS®energy storage systems and NEC's proprietary AEROS controls software. The energy storage system will enable Consumers Energy to investigate how energy storage can be used to ...
A new Leaderboard Report from Navigant Research examines the strategy and execution of 12 leading energy storage systems integrators (ESSIs), including vendor profiles, ratings, and rankings, with the goal of providing industry participants an objective assessment of these companies’ relative strengths and weaknesses in the market. While ESSI players were few and far between just a few ...
The Energy Storage Association recently commended the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) decision to host a Technical Conference on methods to compensate energy storage systems for the multiple values they provide in wholesale markets. While FERC has previously ruled that energy storage can participate in competitive generator markets and that storage can receive cost-based recovery as a ...
Riello UPS, a brand of the Riello Elettronica group, a world player in the production of static uninterruptible power supplies, photovoltaic inverters and Energy Storage systems, has developed a new function for the NetMan 204 network card that allows you to protect Syneto’s range of virtualization, storage, sharing and Disaster Recovery ...
- Achieves Automatic Control and Visualization of Electric Power - Tokyo, July 13, 2011 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) announced today the sales launch of a household energy storage system equipped with lithium-ion batteries that automatically controls electrical power in the home. Initially, 100 units of this industry first* system will be available for home construction ...
Clarke Energy, a KOHLER Company, has signed a memorandum of understanding with NEC Energy Solutions, Inc. (NEC) with respect to the supply of their GSS Grid Storage Solution products and warranty service offering. Energy storage products are highly complementary to Clarke Energy’s existing product offering which includes gas engines and biogas upgrading technology. Energy storage systems ...
Advanced Microgrid Solutions (AMS) recently announced they would work with Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. to deploy AMS's Hybrid Electric Building technology in select Walmart stores in the U.S. Under the agreement, AMS will design, install and operate advanced energy storage systems at Walmart stores that are designed to improve efficiency, guarantee energy savings, and provide flexible grid support to ...
Situated at the edge of the power grid, either at the distribution transformer or at the customer premise, community and residential energy storage (CRES) systems are typically much smaller than utility-scale or bulk energy storage systems. Currently, utilities, vendors, and governments are testing CRES systems for the purposes of smoothing peaks in electricity demand, enabling ...