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New Report Highlights Sandia's Grid, Energy Storage Efforts
Sandia's 2022 Grid Modernization and Energy Storage Annual Report is now available. Sandia's Grid Modernization and Energy Storage program works to advance a national vision of a secure, resilient, and sustainable electric system for all users. The achievements listed in the report reflect a strategic approach combining technology development; modeling, simulation, and data analytics; and ...
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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 ...
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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" ...
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PNNL: The Future of Grid Energy Storage Starts Today
by JoAnna Wendel, PNNL In a decarbonized, electrified future, next-generation batteries will improve the reliability and resilience of the electrical grid while allowing increased integration of renewable energy. These batteries will also be able to provide backup power during or after natural disasters, like ice storms, extreme heat waves, hurricanes, and more. A new facility called the Grid ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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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SDTC and Nova Scotia Organizations Announce Collaboration to Support Smart Grid Technologies
Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) this week announced a collaboration with the Nova Scotia Department of Energy and Innovacorp, a Nova Scotia crown corporation, on a pilot program to support the development and demonstration of smart grid technologies in Nova Scotia. Innovacorp has teamed up with the Nova Scotia Department of Energy to help Nova Scotia researchers and early stage ...
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California ISO Prepares for Surge in Grid-Scale Energy Storage
The California Independent System Operator (ISO) recently kicked off an initiative to explore market reforms to embrace a historic tide of commercial-scale storage technology onto its system in the next few years, laying the foundation for a global model to support the transition to zero-carbon power grids."California's drive for decarbonization has placed the ISO on the leading edge of the ...
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NYSEG and RG&E Test Energy Storage Technologies
New York State Electric & Gas along with Rochester Gas and Electric, subsidiaries of AVANGRID, Inc., have completed construction and deployed four energy storage pilot projects. These initiatives will test electric distribution system benefits, new technologies, and the capability to store energy, which could create opportunities for cost savings and provide environmental benefits. “Our goal ...
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Energy Storage Guide for Policymakers Released
A new tool published by the independent Interstate Renewable Energy Council, Charging Ahead: An Energy Storage Guide for State Policymakers," (http://irecusa.org) provides regulators and other decision makers with specific guidance on key issues for policy consideration, including foundational policies for advanced energy storage a new generation of technologies characterized by flexible ...
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B. Riley Principal Merger Corp. II and Eos Energy Storage Announce Letter of Intent for Business Combination
B. Riley Principal Merger Corp. II (NYSE: BMRG, BMRG WS, BMRG.U) (“BRPM II”), a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by an affiliate of B. Riley Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: RILY) (“B. Riley Financial”), and privately held Eos Energy Storage LLC (“Eos”) today announced they have executed a letter of intent (“LOI”) for a business combination ...
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Malta Raises $26M, Forms New Grid-Scale Energy Storage Company
Malta Inc, a pioneer in electro-thermal energy storage, recently (12/19) announced it has raised $26M in a Series A round of funding led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures with participation from other investors including Concord New Energy Group and Alfa Laval. The Malta energy storage system stores energy in the form of a thermal differential between hot and cold storage media. It is based on ...
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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 ...
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PG&E and Energy Vault to Build Largest Green Hydrogen Long-Duration Energy Storage System in U.S.
Energy Vault Holdings, a leader in sustainable grid-scale energy storage solutions, and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) this week (Jan 5) announced the companies are partnering to deploy and operate a utility-scale battery plus green hydrogen long-duration energy storage system (BH-ESS) with a minimum of 293 megawatt-hours of dispatchable carbon-free energy. The BH-ESS is designed to ...
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Beckerman Acquires Antenna Group
Beckerman today announced the acquisition of Antenna Group Inc., a nationally recognized, full-service, strategic communications firm specializing in serving clean technology companies and corporations concerned about sustainability. As a result of this acquisition, Beckerman will fold its clean technology practice into the Antenna Group brand, creating the largest clean technology ...
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How to Find High-Profile Corporate Partners in the Global Grid Storage Market, Leaders in Grid Scale Battery Storage
Demand for grid energy storage will see nearly a 3,954 percent, jumping from $2.8 billion to $113.5 billion in 2017. Representing close to a 5,694 percent increase in capacity, grid storage will reach 185.4 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of capacity compared to 3.2 GWh in 2012. Even as the grid storage sector approaches maturity, bankruptcies, fires and geographical shifts have been rampant. As the ...
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Victron Energy Helps Customers to be Less Grid Dependen
Victron Energy, a leading Dutch power solutions provider, is introducing and showcasing five new products at Intersolar. All products are particularly suited for off-grid, energy storage and back-up. The products on show include: EasySolar, an integrated smart total power solution, new BlueSolar models, the latest ultrafast MPPT charge controllers, ECOmulti, a simple wall mounted energy storage ...
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