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Renewable Hybrid Power Plants: Exploring the benefits and market opportunities
This paper explores the benefits and market opportunities for Hybrid Power Plants (HPPs). As the share of variable renewable energy in power grids increases, a discussion on the potential advantages of HPPs, comprising wind or other renewables, with or without storage, has been evolving.Currently, the number of such HPPs under development or already operating in Europe is very limited. Their ...
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Clarke Energy named large exporter of the year at Northern Powerhouse Export Awards 2019
Clarke Energy are delighted have been named Large Exporter of the Year at the Northern Powerhouse Export Awards 2019, held at the National Railway Museum in York. The awards, in association with the Department for International Trade (DIT), recognise the most entrepreneurial exporters from across the North East, North West and Yorkshire. The Large Exporter of the Year award recognised ...
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OK Plast Hybrid Power Plant Solution, Nigeria
Clarke Energy has supplied its first hybrid solution using gas engines and storage demonstrating engineering capabilities to deliver microgrids projects. OK Plast based in Lagos, Nigeria, upgraded their natural gas power plant at their plastic bottling facility to a hybrid FlexGen energy storage system solution. This solution enables them to avoid expensive losses in their factory previously ...
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Clarke Energy Shortlisted for Large Exporter of the Year at Northern Powerhouse Export Awards
Clarke Energy are delighted to have been shortlisted in the Large Exporter of the Year category at the 2019 PD Ports Northern Powerhouse Export Awards in association the Department for International Trade (DIT) The awards had nearly 150 category nominations from across the North East, North West and Yorkshire. Following an extensive shortlisting process Clarke Energy were selected as a finalist ...
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DHYBRID presents new storage solutions for hybrid power plants and microgrids
Uninterruptible power supply for regions with challenging climates DHYBRID — the specialist in hybrid power plants — is enhancing its hardware and software portfolio with microgrid-optimized lithium-ion storage solutions. The new storage systems work seamlessly together with DHYBRID's Universal Power Platform (UPP), which controls the interaction of solar systems, storage units and ...
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Examining the very latest updates on CSP Plants around the world
The CSP industry has seen several plants leaving the status of ‘planning’ or ‘under construction’ to operation in the last 12 months, most of them located in Spain and the US. In fact, between 2010 and 2011, Spain installed 410 MW and the USA 79MW. Invaluable data like this and more has been compiled as part of CSP Today’s latest report: The Concentrated Solar Power ...
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Wärtsilä Energy transfers certain activities to Citec in Finland
Wärtsilä Energy has decided to increase its flexibility in close collaboration with its long-term engineering partner Citec. Wärtsilä is transferring certain mechanical & civil project engineering, project quality assurance and module & component change orders and product care activities to Citec as of October 1, 2021. Approximately 40 employees, located in Vaasa, ...
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Prince William Visits Clarke Energy Stand at the International Business Festival 2018
Clarke Energy was recently one of the official sponsors of the International Business Festival 2018 (IBF), the event was structured around nine unique days based on high growth industries and Clarke Energy were the main sponsor for the Sustainable Energy Day. As Clarke Energy are one of a select group of companies, chosen by the Department for International Trade, to act as an Export Champion for ...
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AREVA Solar Part of Consortium Selected by Australian Government for New 250 MW Solar Flagships Project
The Australian Government has selected the AREVA Solar, CS Energy and Wind Prospect CWP consortium's "Solar Dawn" as the preferred solar thermal power project in Round 1 of the Australian Government's Solar Flagships Program. Solar Dawn is a proposed 250 megawatt solar thermal gas hybrid power plant and will be the largest plant of its kind in the world when completed. The Australian ...
By AREVA
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SEPA's Energy Storage Snapshot Highlights Opportunities in Nascent Storage Market
The Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA) has announced the release of the 2018 Utility Energy Storage Market Snapshot, the second annual overview of the energy storage market.Now in its second year, the Energy Storage Market Snapshot relies on data and survey responses submitted directly by U.S. utilities. The 137 utilities that submitted data for SEPA's survey represent more than 82 million ...
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Abengoa Awarded the First Large Scale Hybrid Microgrid With Flow Batteries in Africa
Abengoa this week annouced that it has been selected to construct a hybrid microgrid power plant by the leading vanadium energy storage solutions provider in the African market Bushveld Energy. Specifically, the company will be responsible for the engineering, supply and construction of a plant integrated by an energy storage system using Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries (VRFB BESS), with a ...
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Clarke Energy Wins Excellence & Innovation in International Trade Award
Clarke Energy were delighted to receive the Excellence & Innovation in International Trade award at Insider Media’s North West International Trade Awards 2018. The ceremony, held in association with the Department for International Trade North West, took place on 6th December at The Lowry Hotel, Manchester. The Excellence & Innovation in International Trade award celebrates ...
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ENSR provides environmental permitting for major new solar energy projects in California
ENSR is providing environmental permitting and licensing support for four major solar energy projects in southern California. ENSR, part of AECOM, is a leading global environmental services firm. To help secure the environmental permits for these important new energy projects, ENSR evaluated the projects’ potential environmental impacts on water resources, air quality, socioeconomic ...
By AECOM
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Ampt Receives Follow-on Order for String Optimizers Totaling 390 MW of Solar+Storage in Chile
Ampt, a DC optimizer company for large-scale photovoltaic (PV) systems, this week announced that it has received an order for Ampt String Optimizers for 210 MW as a follow-on to the company’s successful delivery of 180 MW earlier this year. The combined 390 MW of Ampt optimizers will power Chile’s largest solar plus energy storage power plant initiative. Ampt’s patented optimizer technology plays ...
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NREL Methods Assist Maui in Approaching 100% Renewable Operations
Maui is not waiting until 2045 to meet Hawaii's clean energy mandates: The island is likely to become the first interconnected electric transmission system anywhere to operate with 100% wind and solar PV power on an instantaneous basis.Through 2024, Maui is scheduled to bring online more than 175 MW of new solar-storage hybrid power plants. This, in addition to the almost 200 MW of wind and solar ...
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EDP Renewables presents the first Polish edition of University Challenge
EDP Renewables announced the winner of the first edition of the EDPR University Challenge for students from Polish universities. The awards ceremony, held in Poland, was led by João Manso Neto, CEO of EDPR, who was accompanied by Polish executives of the company. It took place in Warsaw today at the Cervantes Institute. This initiative aims is to awaken the spirit of innovation and ...
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Windlab and Vestas Partner On World`s First Utility-Scale Hybrid Integrating Wind, Solar and Storage
A partnership between renewable energy industry leaders has announced the final details of a project that will help accelerate the transition to an energy mix led by renewable energy and aim to provide even more reliable and consistent renewable energy production adapted to energy demand and grid requirements. Developed by Australia's international renewable energy company, Windlab, with support ...
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NREL Announces Round Two Selections for the DOE Small Business Vouchers Pilot
The Energy Department's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will help 12 companies advance their technologies under the second round of DOE's Small Business Vouchers (SBV) pilot. "The Small Business Vouchers Pilot focuses on attracting small and mid-size businesses that can leverage the world-class capabilities of the national laboratories and bring their clean energy technologies ...
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The alternative to coal in South Africa
With a desperate need for dispatchable generation, South Africa should be readily embracing CSP as a low-carbon, sustainable, base load energy alternative. So why do its energy authorities remain unconvinced? This question has formed the subject of Part 2 of the CSP Today South Africa Guide. Forget green energy: while most nations are concerned about carbon reduction, South Africa seems more ...
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Global CSP – The way forward for the Pacific Islands
A revolutionary solution to delivering 100% renewable uninterrupted power UK Trade and Investment in New Zealand are representing UK- based Global CSP at the ‘Transforming Pacific Energy Systems’ conference in Honolulu on the 21-23 July. It is now widely accepted Hybrid technologies is the new frontier to achieve best performance and uninterrupted supply of power, it is a mix of ...
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