grid energy storage News

Energy Storage Safety Strategic Plan Now Available

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 ...

Dec. 23, 2014

Energy Department Releases Grid Energy Storage Report

As part of the Obama Administration’s commitment to a cleaner, more secure energy future, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz released the Energy Department’s Grid Energy Storage report to the members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. The report was commissioned at the request of Senator Ron Wyden, Committee Chairman. The report identifies the benefits of grid energy ...

Dec. 12, 2013

DOE Launches Design & Construction of $75 Million Grid Energy Storage Research Facility

The U.S. Department of Energy this week announced the beginning of design and construction of the Grid Storage Launchpad (GSL), a $75 million facility located at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington that will boost clean energy adaptation and accelerate the development and deployment of long-duration, low-cost grid energy storage. "The Grid Storage Launchpad ...

Mar. 11, 2021

January 14 ESTAP Webinar: DOE OE Energy Storage Safety Strategic Plan

On Wednesday, January 14, 2015 from 2:30 - 4 p.m. ET, Clean Energy States Alliance will host a webinar on the OE strategic plan, released in December 2014, which provides a roadmap for grid energy storage safety. OE's Imre Gyuk, Energy Storage Program Manager, will present an overview of the strategic plan. The plan addresses the full range of grid-, utility-, community-, and ...

Jan. 8, 2015

September 2013 PSERC Webinars

The DOE-funded Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC) is offering two free public webinars in September. The webinars are free and no pre-registration is necessary. For more information and details on logging into the webinar, please visit PSERC's website or click the links below for each webinar. Tuesday, September 3 from 2 - 3 pm ET: Grid-Scale Energy Storage This webinar will ...

Aug. 23, 2013

NEC Energy Solutions to Supply SCE With First "Plug-And-Play" Battery Grid Energy Storage Solution

November 3, 2016 -- NEC Energy Solutions, a subsidiary of NEC Corporation, recently announced that it is supplying Southern California Edison (SCE) with its first grid energy storage pilot system under a pre-approved energy storage procurement program initially conceived of and announced by SCE last year. The NEC ES GSS grid storage solution product line is the first in the "plug-and-play" ...

Nov. 3, 2016

Department of Energy Announces New Projects to Extend Grid Energy Storage

The U.S. Department of Energy has announced the selection of 10 projects as part of a new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program, Duration Addition to electricitY Storage (DAYS). Awardees will develop energy storage systems to provide reliable, affordable power to the electric grid for up to 100 hours, enhancing grid resilience and performance. Under Secretary for Science Paul ...

Sep. 20, 2018

New Energy Storage Deployments in Asia Pacific’s Major Markets Are Expected to Total Nearly 37 GW from 2015 to 2025

A new report from Navigant Research examines the market for grid-tied energy storage systems (ESSs) in 22 countries, with forecasts for power capacity, energy capacity, and revenue, segmented by technology, through 2025. While system costs remain one of the largest hurdles to the energy storage industry’s growth, declining prices are helping to move the technology into diverse geographic ...

Nov. 19, 2015

Grid-Scale Energy Storage Systems Launched In 2013-2014 Total More Than 360 Megawatts

A new report from Navigant Research provides a comprehensive resource of grid-scale energy storage projects worldwide, including a database of 697 projects encompassing 1,160 systems. Government funding, subsidies, and regulatory reforms continue to encourage the growth of the market for grid-scale energy storage systems. While lithium ion (Li-ion) technology has emerged as the global leader in ...

Sep. 30, 2014

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 ...

Sep. 8, 2015

Closing the Innovation Gap in Grid-Scale Energy Storage

Grid-scale energy storage has the potential to make the transition to a low-carbon energy system easier, quicker, and cheaper than it would be otherwise. Progress has been made to bring a wide array of storage technologies to the market, thanks in part to federal and state policies. However, these options are still not cheap enough or powerful enough to provide all the storage services required ...

Apr. 26, 2018

By Ambri Incorporated

NEC Energy Solutions to Supply Largest Battery Grid Energy Storage Installation in New England

NEC Energy Solutions (NEC ES), a subsidiary of NEC Corporation, recently announced that it is supplying the Sterling Municipal Light Department (SMLD) of Sterling, MA with a 2 MW, 3.9MWh GSS grid energy storage solution. Once complete in December of this year, it will be the largest battery-based energy storage system installed in New England and the first utility scale project in Massachusetts. ...

Oct. 13, 2016

By NEC Energy Solutions

NEC Energy Solutions to Supply Largest Battery Grid Energy Storage Installation in New England

EC Energy Solutions (NEC ES), a subsidiary of NEC Corporation, recently announced that it is supplying the Sterling Municipal Light Department (SMLD) of Sterling, MA with a 2 MW, 3.9MWh GSS grid energy storage solution. Once complete in December of this year, it will be the largest battery-based energy storage system installed in New England and the first utility scale project in Massachusetts. ...

Oct. 13, 2016

U.S. Senate Energy Committee Examines Grid-Scale Energy Storage

Recently (6/4), the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee examined opportunities for the expanded deployment of grid-scale energy storage. Ranking Member Joe Manchin (D-WV) stressed the important role grid-scale energy storage will play in efforts to achieve carbon emission reductions and address climate change like he and Chairman Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) observed on their recent visit ...

Jun. 6, 2019

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 ...

Feb. 1, 2021

Revenue from Grid-Scale Energy Storage is Expected to Total More than $68 Billion from 2014-2024

A recent report from Navigant Research analyzes the global market for utility-scale energy storage for both bulk an ancillary service applications. As distributed, renewable power generation resources multiply and grid operators seek ways to balance loads across the system using an increasingly diverse range of assets, the demand for grid-scale energy storage is rising. The grid-scale energy ...

Jan. 6, 2015

Mercom: Battery storage, Smart Grid, and Efficiency Companies Receive Increased Funding in 2017

Mercom Capital Group, llc, a global clean energy research and communications firm, recently released its report on funding and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity for the battery storage, smart grid, and energy efficiency sectors for 2017. In 2017, a combined $1.5 billion was raised by battery storage, smart grid, and energy effficiency companies, an increase from the $1.3 billion raised ...

Feb. 2, 2018

Energy Storage Systems for Microgrids to Reach Nearly $4.2 Billion in Market Value by 2024

Delivering services both to microgrids and, in the case of grid-tied systems, to the centralized grid, energy storage is becoming an essential enabling technology for all types of microgrids. Energy storage can reduce the payback period of the microgrid, by enabling an increase in the penetration of renewable energy sources or by reducing diesel fuel consumption. Click to tweet: According to a ...

May 12, 2014

Tata Power Collaborates with AES and Mitsubishi Corporation to Power Up South Asia’s Largest Grid-Scale Energy Storage System in India

Tata Power, AES Corporation, and Mitsubishi Corporation recently (2/13) inaugurated India’s first grid-scale battery-based energy storage system in Rohini, Delhi. The 10 Megawatt MW grid-connected system, owned by AES and Mitsubishi Corporation will pave the path for wider adoption of grid-scale energy storage technology across India. Fluence, a market-leading supplier of energy storage ...

Feb. 15, 2019