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High Power Density: Enables rapid frequency response and peak shaving, ideal for grid services and large-scale solar-plus-storage projects. Modular Architecture: Simplifies transport, installation, and scalability. ...
However, a number of barriers currently impede the process of connecting energy storage systems to the distribution grid. A new suite of actionable recommendations for regulators and utilities, recently launched by a team of leading industry players, aims to change that.The Toolkit and Guidance for the Interconnection of Energy Storage and ...
More than 56,000 Sunrun customers’ solar-plus-battery systems—totaling approximately 75,000 batteries—will provide critical energy to California's grid during times of high energy prices, heat waves, and other grid emergency events while simultaneously lowering energy costs for all ...
Funding for the SAVE program is provided through EPIC 4.09B Aggregated Customers on Distribution Circuits (ACDC). Sunrun Participation Sunrun solar-plus-storage systems at customers' homes in Northern and Central California will deliver targeted load relief to neighborhoods identified with highly constrained electric grids. ...
As part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy Loan Programs Office (LPO) this week announced the closing of a $289.7 million loan guarantee to Sunwealth Holdco 18 LLC’s (Sunwealth) Project Polo. The loan guarantee will finance the deployment of up to 1,000 solar photovoltaic (PV) systems and battery energy storage systems (BESS) located ...
Sunrun, a leading provider of clean energy as a subscription service, announced this week that its growing portfolio of virtual power plants (VPPs) successfully supported power grids across the country in 2024 with a combined instantaneous peak of nearly 80 megawatts—a capacity greater than many traditional fossil-fuel power plants. These innovative programs leveraged Sunrun’s fleet of ...
Georgia Power leaders joined elected officials from the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC), Georgia legislature, and Talbot and Muscogee counties on Thursday to mark commercial operation of the company’s first “grid-connected” battery energy storage system (BESS). The Mossy Branch Battery Facility is capable of 65 megawatts of battery storage that can be deployed back to the grid over a ...
The funds can be used for energy upgrades such as heat pumps for space and water heating, efficient electric appliances, solar panels plus battery storage, electric vehicle chargers, efficient lighting, and smart home energy management systems.GoGreen Financing supports clean energy upgrades for Californians by creating a credit enhancement in ...
As part of the Biden-Harris administration’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy, through its Loan Programs Office, announced a $861.3 million loan guarantee to finance the construction of two solar photovoltaic farms equipped with battery storage and two standalone battery energy storage systems in Puerto Rico. The facilities will be located in the municipalities of ...
Primergy Solar and Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners announced this week that the Gemini Solar + Storage project in Clark County, Nevada is now fully operational. Gemini is the largest co-located solar plus battery energy storage system (BESS) project in the US.Primergy notes that Gemini’s 1.8 million solar panels can generate up to 690 megawatts, powering approximately 10 percent of Nevada’s ...
Salt River Project (SRP) and NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, this week announced Arizona’s largest operational battery energy storage system is now online. Sonoran Solar Energy Center is a 260-megawatt solar facility with the ability to charge a 1 gigawatt-hour battery energy storage system, located south of Buckeye, Arizona. The solar and battery storage system is adding clean energy to the grid ...
rPlus Energies, a leading privately held renewable energy developer, announced that its Green River Energy Center project recently amended its power purchase agreement with PacifiCorp to quadruple the battery storage capacity from 400-megawatt-hours to 1,600 MWh, securing its position as one of the largest solar-plus-storage projects under development in the United States.The project involves ...
The U.S. Department of Energy and the Federal Emergency Management Agency this week (Feb 7) released a summary report for the Puerto Rico Grid Resilience and Transitions to 100% Renewable Energy Study (PR100). The two-year study concludes that Puerto Rico can successfully meet its projected electricity needs with 100% renewable energy by 2050.PR100 outlines pathways to achieving clean energy ...
Electriq Power Holdings, a provider of intelligent energy storage and management solutions for homes and small businesses, announced this week that its battery storage system, the PowerPod 2 and proprietary operational software, is compatible with California's new Demand Side Grid Support (DSGS) program. DSGS is a California statewide program introduced by the California Energy Commission. It ...
The U.S. Department of Energy this week (Nov 2) announced a slate of solar companies and nonprofits selected to install rooftop solar and battery storage systems for vulnerable households in Puerto Rico through the Puerto Rico Energy Resilience Fund (PR-ERF). The first tranche of PR-ERF funding, up to $440 million, will help lower energy bills for 30,000-40,000 single-family households in Puerto ...
As inverter-based resources, including modern wind turbines, solar photovoltaic and battery energy storage systems, continue to drive grid transformation, they may also introduce potential risks to the system, as documented by NERC in multiple disturbance reports. As part of its Inverter-Based Resource Strategy, NERC is dedicated to identifying and addressing these challenges, sharing risk ...
By JIGAR SHAH, Director of the Loan Programs Office The U.S. Department of Energy this week (Sept 12) announced the release of the Pathways to Commercial Liftoff for Virtual Power Plants (VPPs), underscoring the critical role that VPPs need to play in the Nation's affordable, reliable, and clean energy future. With peak electricity demand rising and old coal and gas power plants retiring, the ...
As extreme heat records fall across the West and strain the power grid, San Diego Gas & Electric is piloting a virtual power plant (VPP) to reduce energy demand and put electricity back on the grid during peak hours -- through leveraging the capabilities of customer-owned smart thermostats, rooftop solar, energy storage and other connected resources such as water pumps. A VPP uses advanced ...
In this use case, High Caliber Energy has assisted one of its large U.S. energy clients in evaluating solar and battery energy storage system (BESS) technologies with a focus on safety, value, support, and battery lifespan. That vetting process led the client to select EnerVenue ESVs as an ideal fit for its Florida energy storage project and its ...
Governor Kathy Hochul this week (May 31) announced NY Green Bank, a division of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and the largest green bank in the country, has surpassed $2 billion in cumulative financial commitments in support of the State's transition to clean energy and sustainable infrastructure, as it celebrates its 10-year anniversary. The state-sponsored ...