The 5th Microgrid Global Innovation Forum took place in Barcelona this month. Pic: Energy Storage Report.
By Jason Deign
Battery-based microgrids are helping the shipping industry go through a quiet electric-power revolution, said an expert at the 5th Microgrid Global Innovation Forum last week.
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Demand Energy wins the 2017 ESNA Innovation Award for its pioneering New York City microgrid. Pic: Demand Energy.
By Jason Deign
Demand Energy last month announced it has been selected by New York City’s distribution grid operator to build 2.5MW and 10MWh of energy storage projects.
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Dan Nordloh, executive vice president of EnSync Energy Systems, speaks at ground breaking event for University of the Nations. Pic: EnSync, © Nadia Take 2015.
By Jason Deign
A solar-plus-battery project in Hawaii is showing how energy storage can help take the stress off the grid while delivering benefits to utility customers.
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Research from IHS Markit shows solar increasingly being paired with battery storage. Pic: Skeeze, Pixabay.
By Jason Deign
A new study has strengthened previous evidence that electrical energy storage is getting more distributed, more tied to solar, more long-term and more based on lithium-ion.
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New York State is looking to storage to help cope with growth in renewable energy generation. Pic: Zoltan Kovacs on Unsplash.
By Jason Deign
America’s New York State is pumping millions into diversifying its energy storage mix as solar-based renewable penetration mushrooms.
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GE expects storage to take a more central role in the grid as the penetration of renewables increases. Pic: John Hryniuk Photography for GE.
By Jason Deign
Industrial behemoth GE sees energy storage as occupying an increasingly central role in grid stabilisation, Energy Storage Report has learned.
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Flow batteries, such as this ESS All-Iron unit under contract to the US Army Corps of Engineers, have the potential to reach commercial cost-effectiveness before lithium-ion, new research shows. Pic: ESS.
UPDATE: We have found data for EWE’s proposed flow battery system on the EWE Gasspeicher website. The actual values are not far off those calculated in our original article below.
By Jason Deign
A study last week showed flow batteries could maintain a cost edge over lithium-ion chemistries, even in the face of massive deployment of the latter.
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Andrés Gluski, AES: “This is a market that’s growing very rapidly.”
By Jason Deign
Early trading suggests markets have taken in their stride the news that Siemens and AES are joining forces to take over the energy storage market.
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