Vistra targets gigawatt-scale battery
BY PRISCILLA OBILANA: The extreme weather in Texas caught the US state off-guard. In doing so, it has served as a powerful reminder of why storage is so vital for grid stability and energy users. Simply…
Texas
Why AMS sees promise in Texas
By Jason Deign San Francisco, USA-based Advanced Microgrid Solutions (AMS) is expanding into Texas as part of moves to grow its presence outside its core California market. The company this month announced a USD$3.24m US…
Energy Storage in Texas
Texas. It has always been of huge and obvious importance to the US energy economy, both as a producer of hydrocarbons and as a massive consumer, thanks to its enormous geographical area and its position…
Huge CAES project gets go-ahead
Dresser-Rand Group has been awarded a contract to supply equipment for a 317MW compressed air energy storage (CAES) facility by Apex Compressed Air Energy Storage. The deal is worth around a cool USD$200m and the CAES…
Joint Center for Energy Storage Research losers
There was jubilation in the energy storage sector when the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research was announced by the US Department of Energy, especially from those institutions, such as Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Pacific…