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Soluna batteries gain CEC approval for installation in Australian homes
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The newly launched home battery systems of Soluna Australia have been added to the Clean Energy Council’s list of approved lithium-based storage devices, a key industry standard for new energy storage products in…
NT outlines “priority” electricity market reforms on road to 50% renewables
The Northern Territory Labor government has outlined a list of key electricity market reforms, in a long-awaited first step towards smoothing the way to a grid it has pledged will be 50 per cent renewable by 2020.
The priority reforms,…
Rooftop solar reshapes W.A. grid, and retiring coal units won’t be missed
The latest 10-year forecast for the West Australia state grid highlights massive changes ahead as rooftop solar entrenches its position as the dominant technology on the local network, so much so that the closure of two of the remaining…
DOE-Backed Interconnection Project Takes Aim at Solar’s Pernicious “Soft Costs”
U.S. solar developers must wade through a tangle of divergent standards to get projects running. And with the significant increase in the volume of solar projects in recent years, utilities must devote more and more time to…
Texas to get 150-MW/150-MWh of battery storage projects backed by oil and gas money
Texas-based solar and energy storage independent power producer (IPP), Broad Reach Power, announced this week the development of 15 utility-scale battery storage plant sites near Houston and Odessa, by the end of 2020.
Broad Reach is…
Redflow taps market to fast-track Gen3 battery, as virus hits order book
Australian flow battery manufacturer Redflow has launched a new capital raising seeking up to $23 million to complete the development of its next generation battery, and to shore up cash flows that have suffered from the impacts of the…
NEC Pulls the Plug on Storage Integration Business
Grid battery integrator NEC Energy Solutions is winding down, Bloomberg reported Thursday.
The company manufactured and integrated hundreds of megawatts of battery systems for projects around the world. But parent company NEC Corp. of Japan…
Enhancing pitch control reliability with ultracapacitors
Clean energy, like most industries across the globe, has faced an enormous test in resilience over the past few months. With the onset of the pandemic and the devastating effects it has had on the renewable energy industry, we’ve learned…
$1 million in funding for clean energy projects announced by Maryland Energy Administration
The Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) announced awardees of the first Resilient Maryland program. The pilot project aims to drive economic growth through innovative clean energy technology, enabling essential services, businesses and…
Stem Will Operate Massive AMS Battery Portfolio in Southern California
Energy storage software company Stem will operate a 345 megawatt-hour portfolio of distributed batteries in Southern California Edison utility territory. But it didn’t develop or build these batteries—it’s taking over from long-time…