Tag: energy storage

March 1, 2023

Renewable energy and energy efficiency company Ameresco has nearly completed its three-site, 2.1GWh battery energy storage system (BESS) project for utility Southern California Edison (SCE). In announcing its most recent quarterly financial results, the company offered an update to what […]

March 1, 2023

US utility-scale solar and energy storage developer Savion LLC has placed an order with thin-film solar manufacturer First Solar Inc (NASDAQ:FSLR) for 2.6 GW DC of its Series 7 modules. The photovoltaic (PV) equipment is planned to be delivered between […]

February 13, 2023

Northland Power said it signed a 20-year fixed-price energy storage facility agreement with the Independent Electricity System Operator in Ontario, Canada, for the Oneida Energy Storage Project. Days earlier, Toronto-based Northland agreed to acquire a majority interest in the 250 […]

January 17, 2023

A North Carolina-based group that provides battery energy storage and software technology is set to co-locate 420 MWh of storage at four natural gas-fired facilities in California. Durham-headquartered FlexGen Power Systems on Jan. 17 said it would provide energy storage […]

November 23, 2022

Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) is actively engaged in advancing long-term clean energy storage technologies for both immediate deployment and long-term systems up to 100 hours. B&W is part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL) Duration […]

November 21, 2022

CSI Energy Storage said it will provide up to 2.6 GWh of battery energy storage capacity for the build-out of energy storage projects managed by UBS Asset Management’s Real Estate & Private Markets business in North America. The projects are […]

November 15, 2022

The Department of Energy is making nearly $350 million available for emerging long-duration energy storage (LDES) demonstration projects capable of delivering electricity for 10 to 24 hours or longer. Funded in part by the 2021 infrastructure law, the funding aims […]

September 15, 2022

Done correctly, and with enough of it, energy storage could be the hero of many grids as the energy transition drives the adoption of more variable resources powered by the wind and the sun. Grid operators stress how important it […]

September 13, 2022

The Energy Department’s Berkeley Lab’s published its latest Tracking the Sun annual report, which is based on data from roughly 2.5 million systems installed nationally through year-end 2021. It includes preliminary data for the first half of 2022. Key findings […]

September 8, 2022

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Sept. 8 that $16.6 million had been awarded to five long-duration energy storage projects in her state. She also said an additional $17 million in competitive funding was available for projects that “advance […]

August 31, 2022

Fossil-fueled peaker power plants, once embraced by utilities for their rapid response capabilities, have entered a new moment in time. Peakers are the power plants that fire up during high peaks of electricity demand, and they are often the dirtiest […]

August 30, 2022

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to help guide the implementation of $335 million in investments from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for lithium-ion battery recycling programs. Batteries are critical to powering clean energy […]

August 30, 2022

It’s no secret that the U.S. electricity generation system is desperately in need of reliable energy storage to back up the vast amount of intermittent renewable resources being added. It’s also a fact that pumped storage hydropower is the single […]

August 25, 2022

If consumers are willing to purchase and install solar energy on their homes and they are also willing to purchase and install batteries so they can continue using that solar energy at night when the sun goes down, could those […]

August 11, 2022

Hybrid power plants continue to be deployed across the U.S., with almost 300 such facilities (all with 1 MW or more of generation capacity) operating at the end of last year. An August 2022 report from the Lawrence Berkeley National […]

July 26, 2022

Utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) are growing rapidly across the U.S., with installations increasing 196% in the past year alone. The most common use case for BESS is for frequency response markets, which offer new revenue streams for both […]

July 12, 2022

Equinor has acquired U.S. battery energy storage developer East Point Energy, the companies announced. The privately-owned East Point is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia and has a 4.1 GW current pipeline of early to mid-stage battery storage projects focused on the […]

July 7, 2022

Scotland-based renewables developer Renewco Power has acquired a 2GW pipeline of US-based solar and energy storage assets from Beaufort Rosemary. Renewco, which is backed by British utility giant SSE, is to additionally partner with Beaufort Rosemary on further sites in […]

July 1, 2022

The City of White Plains in Westchester County, New York, a densely populated outer suburb of New York City that serves as the county seat and commercial hub of Westchester, had fostered a vision for nearly a decade. It has, […]

June 30, 2022

A $500 million program funded by the bipartisan infrastructure package aims to transform current and form mines into clean energy hubs. The Dept. of Energy (DOE) issued a Request For Information (RFI) to inform how the program will support clean […]