Is Offshore Wind a Better Deal With Batteries? A partnership between developer Bay State Wind and NEC Energy Solutions this month highlighted a growing push to pair energy storage with offshore wind. Bay State Wind said it will work with NEC Energy Solutions to add batteries to an 800-megawatt offshore wind farm planned for 15 … Continue reading Is Offshore Wind a Better Deal With Batteries?
Moody’s: Battery Storage Viability is Increasing Battery storage’s emergence as a tool to boost grid reliability and a viable project finance opportunity is good news for utilities and grid operators, said Moody’s Investor Service in an infrastructure and project report on March 19. The ratings agency noted that currently, lithium ion battery costs hover at … Continue reading Moody’s: Battery Storage Viability is Increasing
Trump’s Steel Tariffs May Take a Swipe at Battery-Storage Market The burgeoning battery-storage industry may become the latest to feel the sting of President Donald Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum. Prices for lithium-ion battery packs dropped 24 percent last year as it became cheaper to make them, according to data from Bloomberg New Energy … Continue reading Trump’s Steel #Tariffs May Take a Swipe at Battery Storage Market
Tesla Bidding On Xcel Energy Battery Storage Plan Xcel Energy has solicited bids on a series of grid-scale battery storage installations in Colorado. When completed and online by 2023, they may qualify for the title of largest battery installation in the world, according to PV Magazine. Tesla is one of the companies bidding on the … Continue reading #Tesla Bidding On #Xcel_Energy Battery Storage Plan
SIMEC Zen Energy to build world’s biggest battery near Port Augusta, overtaking Elon Musk’s facility Elon Musk’s Tesla battery in South Australia’s Mid-North will no longer be the world’s most powerful — with a new, bigger battery being built at Port Augusta. The new battery will be built by Whyalla steelworks owner Sanjeev Gupta, who … Continue reading SIMEC #Zen_Energy to build world’s biggest battery near Port Augusta, overtaking @Elon_Musk ‘s facility
World’s largest batteries hiding in Colorado bids Xcel Energy’s December 2017 solicitation results contain bids for energy storage projects at least as large as the current world’s largest under construction, and far larger than the world’s biggest running batteries. Currently, the world’s largest operating battery is located in Australia – a 100 MW/400 MWh battery … Continue reading World’s largest batteries hiding in Colorado bids
GE Looks To Battery Storage For Power Boost Last week at the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston, Eric Gebhardt, vice president and strategic technology officer at GE Power, announced that the company would commit to building large-scale battery systems to store electricity in the next 10 years. The first product is a 1.2-megawatt lithium-ion battery … Continue reading #GE Looks To Battery Storage For Power Boost
Move over, lithium! Researchers create world’s first rechargeable proton battery A team of researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia have created the world’s first rechargeable proton battery. The current battery is simply a prototype, but the research team says that it is a step toward creating a more affordable and environmentally friendly energy sources. … Continue reading Move over, #lithium ! Researchers create world’s first rechargeable #proton battery
Battery Storage Could Boost Coal Consumption More research shows that batteries aren’t necessarily helping decarbonize the grid. In many cases, according to a team from the Rochester Institute of Technology, batteries are making it dirtier. The team, led by Naga Srujana Goteti of RIT’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability, found batteries installed on the Midcontinent Independent … Continue reading Battery Storage Could Boost Coal Consumption
Pennsylvania leads nation in power grid battery storage While the electricity flowing through area homes usually comes from coal-fired, natural-gas fired or nuclear power plants, it occasionally could come from batteries. The regional grid that powers Pennsylvania homes and businesses, the PJM Interconnection , contains 49 percent of the nation’s utility-scale battery storage power capacity, … Continue reading #Pennsylvania leads nation in power grid battery storage
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