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Watching and learning: how the UK is teaching others how to upgrade the grid

• 2024-07-18 19:44:55
• Junior Isles

This may at first glance make the outlook for the UK’s energy transition appear gloomy. However, the challenge posed by intermittency can be managed and the result of the UK’s heavy investment in wind power has been matched by efforts to upgrade its power network.

By Steven Hardman, CEO, Conrad Energy

Record electricity from renewable sources in Germany

• 2024-07-05 06:28:16
• David Flin

Renewable electricity accounted for 65 per cent of Germany’s electricity supply in the first half of 2024, at 140 TWh, according to data from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems.

ESS to treble production of long-duration energy storage manufacturing capacity

• 2024-07-03 06:08:13
• David Flin

Energy storage company ESS, based in Oregon, USA, has announced that it will treble production following receipt of a $50 million investment from the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) under the Make More in America initiative.

Leveraging energy storage solutions to lower oil and gas drilling emissions

• 2024-06-12 17:10:29
• Junior Isles

Oil and gas drillers and operators are now benefiting from energy storage solutions that have powered critical equipment in other sectors. Leveraging energy storage with a lower-carbon fuel such as gas is a field-proven way to achieve operational efficiency, enhanced performance and lower emissions simultaneously.

By Chris Berrie, Caterpillar Oil & Gas Drilling & Completions Sales Manager

MIT reveal concrete idea for electricity storage

• 2024-06-12 06:43:07
• David Flin

Researchers at MIT in Massachusetts, USA, have developed what they claim is a means of storing electricity inside modified concrete.

Volvo Penta and Aiab Energy to expand collaboration into BESS solution

• 2024-03-05 07:16:23.202620
• David Flin

Volvo Penta and Aiab Energy are strengthening their collaboration to provide integrated battery energy storage systems (BESS).

How to keep demand and supply in balance through the energy transition

• 2024-02-16 10:52:25
• Junior Isles

One of the most significant challenges posed by connecting more renewable energy to the grid is intermittency. Balancing the potential energy shortages or oversupply requires a flexible approach.

By Steven Hardman, CEO, Conrad Energy

Sungrow and EDF Renewables launch South African hybrid wind-solar-battery VPP project

• 2023-12-22 07:26:08.765894
• David Flin

Sungrow Power and EDF Renewables have signed an agreement to provide 264 MWh liquid-cooled energy storage systems and MV transformers for the Umoyilanga project in South Africa. The project is South Africa’s first wind-solar-storage integrated virtual power plant (VPP).

Statera Energy wins financing for 600 MWh BESS project

• 2023-11-24 06:56:56.240859
• David Flin

Statera Energy of the UK has secured up to £300 million of debt financing from Lloyd’s Bank for a 300 MW/600 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS).

Trina Storage delivers 50 MWh energy storage system for fish farm in China

• 2023-11-17 06:47:44.211278
• David Flin

Trina Storage has announced that it has delivered a fully integrated 50 MWh energy storage system for a hybrid fishery-solar storage project in Tianmen, Hubei province, China.