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UK Storage Startup Moixa Raises $6M to Fuel ‘Exponential Growth’ Plans
U.K. smart storage startup Moixa has raised £4.6 million ($5.8 million) of funding and aims to raise another £10 million by the end of the year, as it prepares to expand its energy storage management platform across the U.S.…
Hope for favorable hybrid interconnection rules with FERC technical conference
Hybrid interconnection rules are the focus at Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) technical conference, set to take place July 23, 2020. Grid-scale storage is driving storage plus solar, storage plus (solar and wind) combinations.…
Enel Reveals Plan to Add 1GW of Batteries to US Renewables Fleet by 2022
Enel announced a dramatic scale-up of its U.S. energy storage ambitions on Tuesday, saying it will add 1 gigawatt of storage capacity to its renewables fleet by 2022.That's a huge jump from late 2019, when the Italian utilities…
UK’s Kiwi Power expands into North America with ENGIE as a first client
Kiwi Power, a UK-based energy technology company, is bringing its distributed energy resource (DER) optimization technology and expertise to ENGIE North America. Kiwi Power’s project with ENGIE North America is now operational in Texas,…
Tesla big battery at Hornsdale delivers world record output of 150MW
The Hornsdale Power Reserve – more commonly known as the Tesla big battery – has set a new record for itself, and the world, in terms of output from a lithium-ion battery, feeding 150MW into the South Australia grid as it continues its…
Net-Zero iPhones: Apple Pledges to Go Carbon-Neutral by 2030
Apple committed on Tuesday to becoming carbon-neutral by 2030, pushing its ambitions far beyond its own corporate walls — already 100 percent powered by renewables — to include its vast supply chain and the lifecycle of all…
SMUD declares climate emergency; sets goal to be carbon neutral by 2030
The Sacramento
Municipal Utility District (SMUD) Board of Directors adopted a climate
emergency declaration, committing to working toward the goal of delivering
carbon neutral electricity by 2030. The
utility said it has previously helped…
Revenue bonanza dries up for big battery storage in second quarter
The brief bonanza in revenue from frequency control and ancillary services (FCAS) on Australia’s main grid dried up in the second quarter, leading to a big reduction in revenue for the country’s fleet of big batteries and pumped hydro…
New battery breakthrough paves way for 100% silicon batteries with higher energy density
LeydenJar Technologies, a Dutch spin-out of TNO, the Netherlands Organisation for applied scientific research, has developed a new anode which it believes will “drastically change the battery industry,” allowing lithium-ion batteries to be…
New York embarks on a major transportation sector decarbonization journey
Up to 50,000 new charging stations could soon be installed in the state. Late last week, New York Governor
Andrew Cuomo announced a package of major clean transportation initiatives,
including a “Make Ready” order approved by the New…