Solar Energy Storage and Battery News

Uzbekistan has started the request for certification phase for a solar tender that will support three projects totalling up to 500MW, including one combined with a battery energy storage space system.

German power team E.on SE (ETR: EOAN) on Wednesday switched a large-scale mobile and also flexible battery storage system to the distribution grid in Hungary which is designed to promote the combination of brand-new eco-friendly nuclear power plant into the existing grid at short notice.

EDF's 49MW West Burton B battery storage possession has actually been offered alongside its consolidated cycle gas generator (CCGT) power plant, to institutional investor EIG.

German energy group RWE AG (ETR: RWE) has won two solar-plus-storage projects in the latest advancement tender in Germany as well as will mount an overall of 31.5 MWp of solar power ability combined with batteries of 10.5 MW in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

German green power company Naturstrom AG is developing a 7.5-MWp solar-plus-storage facility in the state of Thuringia that is anticipated to be placed on the internet by the winter.

A partnership between Spanish PV professional Gran Solar as well as French independent power producer Total Eren has actually been granted a 25-year concession in Ecuador's tender for the building and procedure of the Conolophus solar-plus-storage system on the Galapagos Islands, the Ecuadorian ministry of energy and also non-renewable natural resources announced on Sunday.

China's Sungrow Power Supply Co Ltd (SHE:300274) revealed on Friday that it will supply tools for a 36-MW off-grid solar project at a gold mine in Egypt combined with a 7.5-MW battery.

A high-performance variation of the zinc-ion battery will enable stationary power storage space that assures to be less expensive, much safer and also a lot more environmentally friendly than lithium-ion batteries.

Engie, Neoen, RTE and the Saucats community system joined pressures to incorporate 1 GW in solar energy with 40 MW of storage, a hydrogen plant, a fruit and vegetable farm and a data center.

Module manufacturer and also energy solutions company Q CELLS North America has actually bought a portfolio of solar-plus-storage projects created by Amped Solutions by means of a grid equity investment.

Gravity storage space uses a high possible method to save energy, and also the backing for Energy Vault Suggests investors buy in. Gravitricity is an additional company that remains in the very same area

As onward thinking as Warren Buffett is, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B)-- the multinational empire holding firm Buffett heads-- has never invested in Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA). That has led some people to question whether he likes Tesla and even electrical automobiles. Yet look beyond the sound, as well as you'll find that the Oracle is rather bullish on EV battery supplies.

The globe's largest lithium-based energy storage space facility has actually just gotten a little bit bigger. Building And Construction of Phase II of the Moss Landing Energy Storage Space Facility in California is currently total, including 100 MW/400 MWh to the site, which now reaches 400 MW/1,600 MWh in total amount.

Researchers have established a new innovation which might allow lithium batteries to be changed with even more sustainable alternatives.

A team of scientists from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has created a cost-effective, light-weight, and safe (lead-free) photo-battery that has dual features in collecting solar power and keeping energy on a single gadget, making it possible to charge a battery imaginable, without having to connect the device into the wall surface.