Hybrid Renewable Energy News
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14th Microgrid Global Innovation Forum – North America to Examine Latest Technology Advances and Business Models
As the U.S. emerges from the pandemic, focus is on decarbonizing the energy mix while improving grid resiliency, reliability and flexibility. Microgrids will play a key role in these efforts. Federal tax credits for solar PV systems (including energy storage) have been reinstated, and FERC Order 2222 is preparing the way for aggregated distributed energy resources to participate in wholesale ...
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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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Calpine and GE Renewable Energy Complete Santa Ana Storage Project in Southern California
Calpine and GE Renewable Energy announced this week the completion of the Santa Ana Storage Project (SASP) in Southern California. The project contains a 20MW/80MWh (4hr) standalone battery energy storage system using GE's Reservoir energy storage technology. The system, now in commercial operation, is supported by a 20-year Resource Adequacy Power Purchase Agreement (PPA). The project will be ...
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PG&E and BMW Group Taking Next Step in Powering Electric Vehicles with Renewable Energy and Supporting Grid Reliability
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and the BMW Group this week announced an expansion of their partnership focused on smart charging electric vehicles with excess renewable energy to support grid reliability. PG&E and the BMW Group are kicking off phase three of their ChargeForward program. This new phase will expand the program to all BMW EV drivers in Northern and Central ...
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NREL Positions for Growth in Cybersecurity for Renewables, Launches New Program Office
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently announced the launch of the new Cybersecurity Program Office (CPO). The CPO was established to accelerate NREL's leadership in securing renewable energy technologies and distributed energy systems. The new office will be led by Jonathan White, former manager of NREL's Secure Cyber-Energy Systems Group. White has significantly increased ...
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Smart Phases at the Un Global Compact Leaders Summit
SMART PHASES INC is a Cleantech company with a business model based on sustainability. Our aim is to respond to society’s main needs through the provision of hybrid energy storage, renewable energy, waste heat, energy consumption and peak management amongst others. We do business differently. We offer solutions to address the great energy challenges facing humanity that will ...
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Declaration from the 2nd International Workshop on Small and Medium Wind Energy at Nordic Folkecenter
Declaration from the 2nd International Conference/Workshop on Small and Medium Wind Energy at Nordic Folkecenter in Denmark, 7-10 October 2019 Small and medium wind has a future. Several manufacturers have already reached mass production, often with products that are properly tested, certified and proven in operation. There is demand for the products, presently especially on a few markets, but ...
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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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GE Renewable Energy to Implement DC-Coupled Solar and Battery Energy Storage Hybrid System in Upstate New York
GE Renewable Energy announced recently (4/16) that it has reached an agreement with Helios Energy to deliver two energy storage systems to be integrated with solar arrays for the Lenox Solar / Energy Storage project in Lenox, NY. The hybrid system will be installed in upstate New York at the end of 2019 and is expected to reach commercial operation in the second quarter of 2020.The project will ...
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GE Expands Renewable Energy Business Portfolio to Accelerate Growth, Improve Performance, and Lead the Energy Transition for GE
GE recently (1/30) announced that it intends to intensify its focus on the growing renewable energy market by consolidating all of the company's renewable and grid assets into a single, simplified Renewable Energy business. Global demand for renewable power generation and the associated grid integration continues to increase globally; the latest report from the International Energy Agency* showed ...
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Dowell Promote its Energy Storage Products to International Market
In the middle of this month, delegations from the United Kingdom and Thailand went to Changzhou factory. Accompanied by the staff of the International Department, they visited the product line independently developed by Dowell. In response to the customer's greatest concern for large-scale project capabilities and customization capabilities, the engineers introduced the large-scale energy storage ...
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SHARC and Environmental Technology Solutions to Launch Australia’s First Piranha System
VANCOUVER — (March 9, 2018) — SHARC International Systems Inc. (CSE: SHRC) (FSE: IWIA) (OTCQB: INTWF) (“SHARC” or “the Company”) is pleased to announce that Environmental Technology Solutions Pty Ltd. (“ETS”) has received its first purchase order for one PIRANHA™ wastewater heat recovery system. On October 26, 2017, the Company announced a ...
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Microgrids Providing Innovative Business Models to Solve Today's Biggest Energy Challenge
Like | Tweet There's a growing spotlight on the fragility of America's aging electrical infrastructure, while both energy production and electricity generation from distributed energy resources (DER) continue to increase. New grid technologies, such as microgrids, can now provide innovative hardware and software that solves for DER integration and provide the benefits of secure, reliable, ...
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6th Microgrid Global Innovation Forum in Washington, D.C. to Examine Latest Technology and Business Advances
Like | Tweet The global microgrid market size was valued at USD 3.76 billion in 2016, and is expected to reach USD 17.51 billion by 2025, growing at a CAGR of 17.0%.* The drivers behind this include the need for greater grid reliability and resiliency, the integration and control of distributed energy resources into the grid, as well as the desire by commercial and industrial end users to ...
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Siemens and AES Join Forces to Create Fluence, a New Global Energy Storage Technology Company
Siemens AG and The AES Corporation announced recently their agreement to form a new global energy storage technology and services company under the name Fluence. The joint venture will bring together AES' ten years of industry-defining experience deploying energy storage in seven countries with Siemens' energy technology leadership and its global sales presence in more than 160 countries. ...
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5th Microgrid Global Innovation Forum to Focus on EMEA/Latin America/Asia Pacific
The 5th edition of the Microgrid Global Innovation Forum, September 4-6, 2017 in Barcelona, will focus on microgrid advances, case studies and applications in EMEA, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America. The emphasis is on optimizing the business model for a range of microgrid deployments, maximizing the use of renewable and distributed energy resources, and sharing real-world case studies in both ...
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4th Microgrid Global Innovation Forum in Washington, D.C. to Examine Latest Advances, Lessons Learned in N. America Deployments
The microgrid market opportunity in the U.S. is projected to double from $836 million in 2016 to $1.66 billion in 2020, according to GTM Research.* The drivers behind this include the need for greater grid reliability and resiliency, the integration and control of distributed energy resources into the grid, as well as the desire by commercial and industrial end users to control energy costs and ...
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4th Microgrid Innovation Forum, Washington, DC, May 16-17: Speakers and agenda announced
The 4th Microgrid Global Innovation Forum, May 16-17, 2017 in Washington, D.C. brings together key industry experts, utilities and C&I end users to examine the latest technology advances and business models for integrating hybrid renewable energy microgrids in grid-connected and off-grid environments. The Forum focuses on successful financing strategies, regulatory trends and ...
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Conference to Examine Microgrids for Energy Resiliency and Off-Grid / On-Grid Applications
Global microgrid capacity is expected to grow from 1.4 GW in 2015 to 7.6 GW in 2024 under a base scenario, according to Navigant Research.* The drivers behind this growth range from the need for greater grid reliability and resiliency, to the integration of more renewable energy into the grid -- including distributed solar, wind, biogas, etc. These trends, as well as the need to reduce ...
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Caterpillar Launches Cat® Microgrid Technology Suite, Integrating Renewable Energy Sources with Traditional Power Generation
Caterpillar Inc. today announced the launch of Cat® Microgrid technology, an innovative suite of power systems that adds environmentally friendly solar panels, state-of-the-art energy storage, and advanced monitoring and control systems to Caterpillar’s traditional line of reliable power generation equipment, including Cat generator sets, switchgear, uninterruptible power supplies and ...
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