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Sunrun Wins Another Capacity Contract for Aggregated Home Storage
network of residential energy systems will help Oakland, California wean itself off fossil-fueled peakers.   East Bay Community Energy, which buys power for
Jul 18, 2019 // Residential, Storage, Alameda County, Northern California, Sunrun, EBCE CEO, Nick Chaset, CCA, EBCE, CalCCA, BrightBox, Vistra
CPUC authorizes plans to add 18.8 GW of solar, 15GW of battery storage by 2032
and would certainly create a levelised cost of energy of US$ 18.6 c/kWh in California. The plan embraced a 35 million statistics ton (MMT) 2032 electric industry
Feb 14, 2022 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, Storage, California, USA, CPUC, BESS, California Public Utilities Commission, North America, Battery Energy Storage System
Leeward picks up 110MW Californian PPA
solar as well as 36MW battery storage Willow Springs 3 center in Kern County, California. The Willow Springs 3 project will provide power to 27% of VCE's 125,000
Oct 21, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, USA, PPA, North America, PV Power Plant, leeward renewable energy
Broad Reach's 200MW Battery Storage Plants Currently Online in Texas
from SYL Battery to sustain the Cascade Energy Storage project in Stockton, California. Cascade is a 25-Megawatt (MW)/ 100-Megawatt-hour (MWh) front-of-the-meter
Nov 3, 2021 // Storage, USA, Texas, North America, Houston, Electric Reliability Council of Texas, ERCOT, Broad Reach Power, Bat Cave, North Fork
Renewable Properties to add 19 MW of community solar to MCE portfolio
in the Byron location, situated in unincorporated Contra Costa County, California. The 5-MW Byron Highway Solar project, which finished construction in August
Oct 19, 2022 // Plants, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, Renewable Properties, Aaron Halimi
Electriq Power Secures $300 Million for Solar+ Storage Financing
support the implementation of Sustainable Community Networks (SCNs) throughout California. Electriq Power offers turnkey power services that consist of every little
Mar 17, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, clean energy, ENERGY STORAGE, green energy, Electriq Power, Inflation Reduction Act, IRA, Frank Magnotti, SCNs in California, Silicon Valley renewable energy, Sustainable Community Networks, USA renewable sector
What is Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E )?
on a service area of about 70 thousand sq mi (mostly in Northern and Central California).     ← Back to Solar Energy
Sep 13, 2023
GAF Energy to develop solar shingle manufacturing facility in Texas
is the California-based business's 2nd facility-- its first remains in California, which the firm onshored in the middle of last year-- as well as will
Jul 20, 2022 // Manufacturing News, USA, Texas, solar cell, North America, GAF Energy, solar shingles, factory
Hannon Armstrong to acquire 49% of AES 1.3-GW renewables portfolio
projects as well as one wind farm located throughout six states - Arizona, California, New York City, South Dakota, Utah and also Virginia. The assets have
Jan 5, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, Hannon Armstrong, AES Corporation
Ameresco Powers Kifer Battery: 50MW US Energy Storage
operational by the fourth quarter of 2025. The battery will participate in the California ISO markets, assist with balancing generation and consumption, reducing
Nov 21, 2023 // Storage, ameresco
Capital Dynamics sells 108-MW solar portfolio in California
Global private asset supervisor Capital Dynamics has unloaded a 90% passion in a 107.8-MW DC solar portfolio in Kern County, California, it was revealed on Monday.
Dec 28, 2020 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, Capital Dynamics, California, USA, North America, solar projects
California marks feed-in-tariff and community solar milestones
Eland – billed as the cheapest such hybrid in US history.    California's south witnesses 30MW community solar launch   Further southeast in
Sep 26, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Tariffs, California, USA, North America, Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, feed-in-tariff, Jeff Stone, 8minute Solar Energy
Sigora Solar buys California-based solar firm Aztec Solar
Virginia-based household and also industrial solar company Sigora Solar LLC has acquired Californian solar energy remedies supplier Aztec Solar Inc as part of its development throughout the US.
Oct 9, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, California, USA, North America, Sigora Solar, Aztec Solar
What is BVES?
is an electric utility serving Big Bear Valley in San Bernardino County, California. They supply power to about 44 thousand locals populating an area of
Sep 11, 2023
Can a Novel Zinc Battery Deliver Clean Multiday Backup Power?
California is looking for ways to keep power flowing to consumers amid wildfires without burning nonrenewable fuel sources. A Canadian storage space technology startup assumes it has the option. This summer, Toronto-based e-Zinc won a $1.3 million grant from the California Energy Commission to demonstrate its long-duration zinc battery for the commercial and also commercial market. As the state's worst wildfire season on record rages on, the urgency to discover brand-new devices for tidy backup power has actually only expanded. The batteries speed up little bits of zinc out of a service while charging, utilizing a windshield-wiper-like tool to clear the plate and include more charging. This allows for longer-duration storage space, while the cheap component costs guarantee to keep costs reduced about other alternatives on the marketplace. The CEC give will certainly help the startup risk an insurance claim on an underserved market, CEO James Larsen stated in a meeting. Lithium-ion batteries are efficient everyday biking for expense management, but they can not run long enough to guarantee multiday backup, he kept in mind. Clients seeking financial multiday backup power normally have to rely on nonrenewable fuel sources, like gas or diesel generators. " We can do both: We can do the short-duration time-of-use arbitrage as well as demand-charge decrease and help generate income from those possibilities for consumers, yet we can additionally supply them approximately two days of backup power when faced with a blackout," Larsen claimed. Environment-friendly back-up for a greenhouse Since e-Zinc's product is less energy-dense than lithium-ion batteries, it would be more difficult to fit into household settings or thick metropolitan locations. The very first deployment will certainly be at Houweling's, a commercial greenhouse in Camarillo, up the shore from Los Angeles. The 125-acre site already organizes a 1-megawatt solar array; fitting a container packed with zinc batteries won't be an issue. The initial installment, anticipated in 2022, will likely be 40 kilowatts with 24 to 48 hours of period. Throughout normal times, if something ever goes back to California, it will catch solar generation to discharge throughout peak hours as well as to power watering in the evening. When power outages loom, it can shift to backup power mode. This is among 5 projects e-Zinc is mounting through 2022. This fall, the business is relocating right into a brand-new production area where it will certainly set up the systems into their containers and perform last quality testing. The startup, founded in 2012, raised a CAD $3.4 million seed round early this year from Chicago's Energy Foundry, Toronto's MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund, the Sustainable Chemistry Alliance and Emeraude Capital. It additionally piled greater than CAD $6 million of non-dilutive grants to fund early demos, supplying runway until at least the end of following year. Long period of time for the people When the give was granted previously this year, California's vital grid worry was maintaining companies online in case of preemptive power shutoffs that energies currently make use of to avoid beginning wildfires. Yet in August, a heat wave pushed need to the side of offered materials, forcing rotating interruptions in California for the first time in twenty years. That event made clear that the long-discussed "duck curve" problem, in which solar production drops off as well as forces a quick ramp of various other resources to fulfill night demand, has actually shown up already. Energy storage has considerable plan and financial investment momentum behind it as the state looks to resolve this problem. Short-duration batteries are well fit to offering this prompt need, Larsen noted. His technology is a much better suitable for when the change progresses additionally. As California pursues 100 percent carbon-free electrical energy, "bulk grid shifting requirements will lengthen in duration," he discussed. "Therefore, the market will start to prefer longer-duration modern technologies like e-Zinc to manage this requirement." The California Public Utilities Commission has wrapped up that the state must develop 1 gigawatt of long-duration storage space by 2026, however the state presently lacks a clear system to obtain such sources. By marketing directly to consumers, e-Zinc needn't wait for brand-new policy systems to appear. Financial savings from day-to-day biking with existing electric prices can recover concerning half the cost of the system, he stated. The rest of the worth requires to come from the client choosing to spend for multiple days' well worth of backup. The technology could scale as much as megawatt-size power plants, yet the market demand for that is possibly at least 5 years off, Larsen noted. Betting on the commercial storage space market is not a safe bet; that market has had its ups and downs, as well as several very early trendsetters have pivoted away from the battery-based demand-charge administration organization design. Two days' well worth of storage space is also still restricted compared to generators that can run as long as they have fuel. Yet generators can not save money through day-to-day biking as e-Zinc can. The company first has to verify itself in the field, after that prove out just how big the market is for midsize commercial expense monitoring and also multiday backup. Nobody's tried to serve that market, so any type of demand there stays untapped.
Sep 25, 2020 // Technology, Storage, California, USA, North America, startup, Zinc Battery, James Larsen