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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
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
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
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
Aggreko Secures $66M Loan for U.S. Solar Projects
industrial, along with community solar projects, across New York, Texas, and California. This portfolio boasts a combined direct current capacity of 88.5 MW, aimed at
Sep 10, 2024 // Markets & Finance News, USA, Aggreko, North America, PV Power Plant
ESS, SB Energy to Deploy 2 GWh Long-Duration Storage in United States
system has actually currently been supplied to an SB Energy place in Davis, California, and will be appointed in October 2021. SB Energy plans to mount additional
Oct 11, 2021 // Storage, USA, North America, sb energy, Eric Dresselhuys, SoftBank Group Corp, Carmichael Roberts, ESS, Rich Hossfeld
Masdar makes United States solar debut with 'landmark' manage EDF
North America, Masdar has purchased a 50% passion in five PV projects in California-- two of that include battery power storage space systems-- amounting to 689MW
Aug 14, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, California, USA, Mohamed Jameel Al Ramahi, Masdar, EDF, hybrid, solar-plus-storage, North America, us, Tristan Grimbert
Envision Bags Solar Powered EV Charging Solutions Contract in Massachusetts
fast charging EV ARC models, which were most recently deployed for CALTRANS in California. The contract also includes Envision’s emergency power solutions, which
Dec 18, 2019 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, Transport, USA, Massachusetts, North America, ev charging, Envision Solar, Desmond Wheatley
United States DOI accepts prepare for Californian 700MW solar-plus-storage project
energy storage space system that will certainly create power via the Southern California Edison Colorado River Substation. The project will be had by renewables
May 5, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Markets & Finance News, Storage, California, USA, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, solar plus storage, Southern California Edison, North America, president biden, department of interior, Laura Daniel-Davis
Matrix secures funding for US solar projects
energy and include an 80MWh power storage system, located in Kern County, California. The projects are totally contracted, holding five long-lasting PPAs with
Oct 26, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, USA, North America, Solar Project, Matrix
Engie Expands US Storage Reaches: 350MW & 880MW Online
and a significant pipeline of early stage projects. The projects span Texas, California and the central states of the United States and will support Engie's goal of
Aug 25, 2023 // Storage, USA, Engie, North America
Kyushu Electric, Enfinity Partner on 400-MW US Solar Reserves
portfolio comprises 28 active utility-scale solar power plants located across California, North Carolina and Idaho, and is majority owned by Enfinity with a 60% equity
Oct 27, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, Enfinity Global, Kyushu Electric
NextEnergy Capital Buys 100-MW Florida Solar Farm
in over 10 solar projects across seven states in the US – Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, Virginia, and Washington. The biggest US
Dec 18, 2023 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, USA, Florida, North America, PV Power Plant, NextEnergy