Domestic Energy Storage News
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GMP's Request to Expand Customer Access to Home Energy Storage Approved
Green Mountain Power (GMP) customers will have greater access to home battery backup power following an order by the Vermont Public Utility Commission late Thursday. In April, after the third devastating storm in less than twelve months, GMP filed a request to lift the enrollment caps on its popular Powerwall and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) home battery programs. Removing the cap allows more ...
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Department of Energy Announces Partnership to Accelerate Commercialization of LDES
The U.S. Department of Energy and partners this week (March 8) announced progress toward a memorandum of understanding (MOU) aimed at accelerating the commercialization of long-duration energy storage (LDES). Parties to the MOU, announced during CERAWeek, are the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Technology Transitions, the Edison Electric Institutes' Institute for the Energy Transition, EPRI, ...
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BSLBATT Shows Ultra-thin (<9cm) 5kWh Battery for Solar Storage
China lithium battery manufacturer BSLBATT shows the Most Trusted Premium-Quality ultra-thin wall-mounted 5kWh lithium-ion batteries for solar storage in the Industry. The thinnest Home ESS Ever built with just 90mm thickness. And up to 3C discharge capability. Up to 81,920 Wh in Low Voltage Connection. Designed for home energy storage. Amenities: Ultra-Thin, Safe, Simple, Strong, Smart, Secure, ...
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dcbel and LG Energy Solution Partner for Future-Proof Home Energy Solution
Smart home energy company dcbel has partnered with LG Energy Solution, a global manufacturer of advanced lithium-ion batteries, to co-market an integrated solution for the residential energy needs of the future. The collaboration brings together experts in distributed energy resources to illustrate the value of introducing a stationary battery into an ecosystem that includes solar power, ...
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sonnenConnect Launches in California, Providing a First-of-Its-Kind Alternative to Net Metering
sonnen, a global market leader in smart energy storage and virtual power plant (VPP) technology, this week announced the launch of sonnenConnect, California’s most advanced consumer battery program to date. The grid-interactive model combines smart sonnen batteries with sonnenVPP software to progress the California energy transition by encouraging customers to use their energy storage systems for ...
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Ministerial roundtable seeks to unlock investment in UK energy storage
Business leaders have met with UK Energy Minister the Rt Hon Greg Hands MP to discuss how the government could unlock significant investment in vital energy storage technologies needed to decarbonise the power sector and help ensure greater energy independence. The meeting was organised by the Long-Duration Electricity Storage Alliance, a new association of companies, progressing plans across a ...
By Drax Group
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SoCalGas H2 Hydrogen Home to Demonstrate Resiliency and Reliability of a Hydrogen Microgrid
Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) has kicked off the assembly of its award-winning H2 Hydrogen Home in Downey, a state-of-the-art demonstration project designed to show the resiliency and reliability of a hydrogen microgrid. The company took delivery of the modular, prefabricated H2 Hydrogen Home, which is the first of its kind in the United States and will show how carbon-free gas made from ...
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Ameresco Awarded 10-MW Slemon Park Microgrid Project
Ameresco, Inc., a leading cleantech integrator specializing in energy efficiency and renewable energy, this week announced that it has been awarded the Slemon Park Microgrid project, which it will develop in collaboration with Prince Edward Island (PEI) Energy Corporation. The Slemon Park Microgrid will consist of a 10-MW solar facility with direct current-coupled energy storage, meaning that the ...
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Hawaiian Electric Encourages Customers to Add Energy Storage to Rooftop Solar Systems
Hawaiian Electric is accepting applications for Battery Bonus, a new program that will pay a cash incentive for residential and commercial customers on Oahu to add energy storage (a battery) to an existing or new rooftop solar system. This one-time incentive will help move Hawaii toward the company's goal of 100% clean energy by 2045 and add more renewable resources to the grid in the short-term ...
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Government urged to fill heat policy vacuum and publish Heat and Buildings Strategy within a month
CCC report makes for ‘very sober reading’ – REA say that there are ‘gaps in policy, inconsistent support and missed opportunities’; Delayed Heat and Buildings Strategy, Green Homes Grant closure and VAT on clean technology installations all cited as problem areas; Government must match rhetoric with action to achieve net zero. CCC report makes for ...
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Amplus Launches the MILES Challenge for Clean Energy Start-Ups in India
Amplus Solar recently announced the launch of the MILES (M+Innovation Lab for Energy and Sustainability) Challenge for start-ups with ready to deploy solutions in the Clean Energy ecosystem in India. Launched in association with GoMassive Earth Network, an angel investor forum focused on sustainability,The MILES Challenge will provide participants mentorship as well as access to resources in the ...
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ConnectDER Granted U.S. Patent for Innovations to their Industry-Leading Plug and Play Distributed Energy Resource Connection
Image Source: ConnectDER ConnectDER, an innovative company that enables utilities and homeowners to expand access to distributed energy resources, has received a patent for innovations to their 'plug and play' solutions for distributed energy resources. The patent is for a reinvention of the standard utility power meter; one that combines the ubiquitous metering and communications of a smart ...
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Department of Energy Releases Energy Storage Grand Challenge Roadmap
The U.S. Department of Energy this week released the Energy Storage Grand Challenge Roadmap, the Department’s first comprehensive energy storage strategy. Announced in January 2020 by U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette, the Energy Storage Grand Challenge (ESGC) seeks to create and sustain American leadership in energy storage. In addition to concerted research efforts, the ...
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Voltstorage: €6m In Funding for Further expansion
VoltStorage GmbH, founded in 2016 by Jakob Bitner, Michael Peither and Felix Kiefl, develops and produces solar energy storage systems for private homes. VoltStorage is the world’s only home energy storage provider in the market relying on Vanadium Redox Flow (VRF) battery technology. The VoltStorage energy storage systems are free of rare raw materials, completely recyclable, 100 percent ...
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PGE Program Will Transform Hundreds of Homes Into a Virtual Power Plant
Portland General Electric is set to launch a pilot program that will incentivize installation and connection of 525 residential energy storage batteries that PGE will dispatch, contributing up to four megawatts of energy to PGE’s grid. The distributed assets will create a virtual power plant made up of small units that can be operated individually or combined to serve the grid, adding flexibility ...
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SimpliPhi Power Recommits to “Energize California” for Second Year to Help Customers Power-Up as Utilities Plan Public Safety Power Shutoffs
First unveiled in June 2019, SimpliPhi Power has recommitted to its “Energize California” campaign for a second year, discounting prices to support California businesses and homeowners to install critical back-up energy storage systems in preparation of utility mandated Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS). Throughout California, utilities Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern ...
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Kyocera and 24M Develop World’s First SemiSolid Lithium-ion Battery System with Improved Safety, Longer Life, and Lower Cost
Kyoto/London - Kyocera and 24M announced that Kyocera has formally launched its residential energy storage system, Enerezza, the world’s first system built using 24M’s novel SemiSolid electrode manufacturing process. In addition, Kyocera has extended its commitment to 24M’s unique manufacturing platform with plans to start full-scale mass production in the fall of 2020. In June ...
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Solar-Plus-Storage Solution for Homeowners
Ginlong Technologies, a specialist in photovoltaic string inverter manufacturing, announces that its Solis storage inverter is now compatible with LG home battery RESU. The Solis Residential Hybrid Inverter (RHI) now is fully compatible with LG RESU 48V line-ups to provide stable, reliable home energy storage. With this partnership, Ginlong is offering more choices to customers in the U.S., ...
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SimpliPhi Power and Heila Technologies Announce Distributed Intelligent Network Microgrid Solution
SimpliPhi Power, a California manufacturer of non-toxic, safe, residential, commercial and mobile energy storage systems, has partnered with Heila Technologies, a developer of software and hardware that integrates diverse generation and storage assets into microgrids, to deliver a dynamic platform that aggregates multiple customer-cited SimpliPhi battery systems into a ...
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Georgia Power, PulteGroup Celebrate Opening of Atlanta's First Smart Neighborhood
Georgia Power and PulteGroup are celebrating the opening of Atlanta's first Smart Neighborhood™. Leaders from Georgia Power, PulteGroup, the Georgia Public Service Commission, U.S. Department of Energy, City of Atlanta and the project's technology partners joined together to officially open the neighborhood recently at PulteGroup's development in Atlanta's Upper West Side, one of the city's most ...
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