Storage

Wärtsilä selected as a preferred supplier for AGL Energy’s grid-scale energy storage plans

Friday, 15 January 2021 Robin Whitlock AGL Energy Limited, one of Australia’s leading integrated energy companies, has selected Wärtsilä as one of the two suppliers for their grid-scale energy storage plans, with a potential capacity of ...

PG&E Proposes Expanding its Battery Energy Storage Portfolio

Monday, 28 December 2020 REM Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has requested California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) approval of six additional battery energy storage projects totaling 387 megawatts (MW) of capacity, ...

Caribbean’s Largest Solar Generation and Storage System Begins Construction

Monday, 14 December 2020 REM The Government of St. Kitts and Nevis, the state-owned St. Kitts Electric Company and Leclanché SA have broken ground on a landmark solar generation and storage project that will provide between 30-35% ...

Gore Street Energy Storage Fund acquires 81MW battery storage portfolio from Anesco

Friday, 30 October 2020 Robin Whitlock Gore Street Energy Storage Fund (GSF) has acquired an 81MW battery storage portfolio from Anesco for £29.2 million as part of a wider partnership between the two companies which will see Anesco providing ...

Australia

Zinc8 Energy Solutions announces agreement in principle regarding energy storage system

Friday, 23 October 2020 Robin Whitlock Zinc8 Energy Solutions Inc. has announced it has signed an agreement in principle with Australian Engineering firm SmartConsult in which the two companies have agreed to explore joint-venture projects ...

Australia

Battery storage could fill the gap left by Australian power stations says Cornwall Insight Australia

Friday, 25 September 2020 Robin Whitlock In the wake of the Federal Government’s announcement that they would fill the gap left by the Liddell Power station through 2023-24, Cornwall Insight Australia has indicated that battery storage might ...

Nobel prize winning inventor of the lithium-ion battery has his eyes set on the next big breakthrough in energy storage

Thursday, 17 September 2020 Robin Whitlock At the ripe age of 98, Dr. John Goodenough, professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin (UT) and inventor of the lithium-ion battery, is looking towards future ...

NAWA Technologies awarded solar impulse efficient solution label

Friday, 11 September 2020 Robin Whitlock

NAWA Technologies has been awarded as one of the 1,000 Solar Impulse Efficient Solutions for the planet, for its next-generation ultra capacitor-based energy storage systems.

100-Megawatt Ventura Energy Storage on the Way to Helping California Grid

Thursday, 03 September 2020 REM The 100 MW/400 MWh Ventura Energy Storage grid-scale battery, near Oxnard, Calif., has commenced construction. With the capacity to serve approximately 80,000 Southern California Edison customers, the project ...

OutBack Power™ Technologies and Bay City Electric Works Partner on Energy Storage

Tuesday, 01 September 2020 REM Solar energy and battery backup solutions are growing in popularity with the increased frequency of California’s public safety power shutoffs, time-of-use billing, and disaster-related power outages. ...