grid-scale power storage News
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U.S. department of energy announces 2011 ARPA-E energy innovation summit
The U.S. Department of Energy announced today that it will hold the second annual ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit February 28 - March 2, 2011 at the Gaylord Convention Center just outside Washington, D.C. The event, which will unite key players from all sectors of the nation's energy innovation community to share ideas for developing and deploying the next generation of clean energy ...
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ARPA-E announces 2012 energy innovation summit featuring Bill Gates, Fred Smith and Lee Scott
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) Director, Arun Majumdar, announced yesterday that the Agency will hold its third annual ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit from February 27 – 29, 2012 at the Gaylord Convention Center just outside Washington, D.C. Bill Gates, founder and chairman of Microsoft; Fred Smith, chairman, president and ...
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Department of energy, duke energy and EPRI partner to test advanced energy technologies for utilities
The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has signed a partnership deal with Duke Energy, one of the largest electric power companies in the United States, and with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), a non-profit research organization that focuses on the electric power utility industry in the U.S. and abroad, to identify opportunities for testing and ...
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Factsheet: third annual ARPA-E energy innovation summit
President Obama launched the Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) in 2009 to seek out transformational, breakthrough technologies that are too risky for private sector investment but have the potential to translate science into quantum leaps in energy technology, form the foundation for entirely new industries, and have large commercial impacts. ...
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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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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 ...
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Highview Power Launches World’s First Grid-Scale Liquid Air Energy Storage Plant
UK-based Highview Power reports that the world’s first grid-scale liquid air energy storage (LAES) plant will be officially launched today. The 5MW/15MWh LAES plant, located at Bury, near Manchester will become the first operational demonstration of LAES technology at grid-scale.The LAES plant has been developed in partnership with recycling and renewable energy company, Viridor, and has been ...
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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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California ISO Outlines Vision For Energy Storage in Evolving Grid
The California Independent System Operator (ISO) contributed to a major international report on the challenges and opportunities of energy storage in the shift to the clean power grid of the future. The ISO collaborated with European counterparts to publish a comprehensive paper, released in November, on the barriers of deploying energy storage worldwide, and paths to create "adequate reward ...
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Energy Secretary Moniz Dedicates the World’s Brightest Synchrotron Light Source
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Ernest Moniz today dedicated the world’s most advanced light source, the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). The NSLS-II is a $912-million DOE Office of Science User Facility that produces extremely bright beams of x-ray, ultraviolet, and infrared light used to examine a wide range of materials, ...
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Swiss Green Electricity Management Group Announces First Project in US PJM Regulation Market
November 2, 2016 -- Swiss Green Electricity Management Group (SGEM) has acquired its first US project and will start building a 20 MW / 10 MWh energy storage plant outside Chicago to provide real-time frequency regulation service to the US regional transmission PJM Market. The Group has announced a partnership with Leclanché and has selected Leclanché as the overall engineering, ...
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Energy and defense departments announce new steps to enhance cooperation on clean energy and energy security
Building on already strong cooperation between the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced today new steps between the Departments to strengthen national security through the continued development of advanced clean energy technologies. Furthering the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) announced last summer the new steps being ...
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Highview Power Contracts with Tenaska Power Services for US Cryogenic Energy Storage Projects
Highview Power, a global leader in long-duration energy storage solutions, has contracted Tenaska Power Services Co., the leading provider of energy management services to generation and demand-side customers in the U.S., to identify, model, optimize and provide energy management services for up to four giga-scale cryogenic energy storage plants in the United States over two years. The initial ...
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DOE offers $100 million for innovative energy research projects
DOE issued three Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) on March 2 that offer $100 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding for the third round of its Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) program. The FOAs, announced at the first ARPA-E summit in Washington, D.C., are focused on innovations in three areas of technology: grid storage, power converters, and cooling ...
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Department of energy awards $92 million for groundbreaking energy research projects
U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu today announced 43 cutting-edge research projects that aim to dramatically improve how the U.S. uses and produces energy. Funded with $92 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through the Department of Energy"s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), today"s selections focus on accelerating innovation in green technology while ...
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TVA Board Approves Pilot Project to Build Solar Facility at Shawnee Fossil Site
The Tennessee Valley Authority Board of Directors this week approved the nation's first-of-its-kind pilot program to determine if closed coal ash sites are suitable for utility-scale solar projects. Pending environmental reviews and regulatory approval, the $216 million pilot project would explore an innovative approach to repurpose a closed coal ash site at the Shawnee Fossil Plant to advance ...
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