Storage

This week, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released the Energy Storage Grand Challenge (ESGC) Draft Roadmap and a Request for Information (RFI), seeking stakeholder input. Announced in January 2020 by U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan…

Yesterday, New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced what he says is the largest combined clean energy solicitations ever issued in the U.S., seeking up to 4,000 MW (4 GW) of renewable capacity to combat climate change. New York’s…

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.…

Yesterday the FBI arrested five public officials from the Ohio state legislature including the speaker of the house. The five are accused of accepting bribes to the tune of $60M to help prop up nuclear power in the state and push for…

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,…

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…

Carbon dioxide emissions from the largest 100 power producers in the U.S. decreased 8% over the course of 2018 largely due to natural gas, wind and solar projects displacing coal-fired generation, sustainability group Ceres said in a…

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…

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…

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…