Solar Energy Storage and Battery News

22-MW Rawhide Prairie solar project with 2-MWh Tesla battery financial institution currently online in Colorado
After acquiring the project in September 2020, Greenbacker Renewable Energy Co. (GREC) has introduced that the Rawhide Prairie Solar + Storage space project has actually been commissioned in Colorado. The 22-MW solar project has a 2-MWh Tesla battery pack on site. This is the initial solar + storage space project for GREC.
Apr 1, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, USA, TESLA, Charles Wheeler, North America, Solar Project, Platte River
Berlin-based Betteries Closes EUR2.1 m Seed Funding Round to Upcycle EV Batteries
Betteries, a startup based in Berlin which upcycles electric automobile (EV) batteries right into economical power systems, revealed that it has actually efficiently closed its Euro 2.1 m seed funding round led by impact funds Factor [e] Ventures and also Beyond Black.
Mar 30, 2021 // Storage, Berlin, startup, EV Battery, Betteries, Upcycling, Jit Bhattacharya, Rainer Hönig
Neoen obtains permission for 450MW solar-storage project in New South Wales
Local authorities in New South Wales, Australia, have provided French independent power manufacturer Neoen the thumbs-up to create a large scale solar-plus-storage production center in the region regardless of getting 50 complaints from members of the public.
Mar 30, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, Australia, solar pv, neoen, solar-plus-storage, Oceania, new south wales
Gore Street NI batteries start operations
Mullavilly as well as Drumkee assets are currently gaining profits under the Northern Ireland DS3 contracts
Mar 30, 2021 // Storage, UK, Europe, Gore Street, Alex O'Cinneide
ILI offers 50MW Scottish battery
Abbey Group Cambridgeshire and YooGen1 acquired the project which is located in Fife
Mar 29, 2021 // Storage, Europe, ILI Group, Mark Wilson, Nick Sutton
Redwood Materials & ERI Partner up to Recycle Batteries as well as Solar Panels
ERI, the country's largest totally incorporated IT as well as electronic devices possession disposition provider as well as cybersecurity-focused equipment devastation company, and also Redwood Materials, a firm developing lasting materials by creating circular supply chains, transforming waste into earnings and also creating the remedy for a fully closed-loop recycling for lithium-ion batteries, announced today that they have participated in an exclusive partnership for battery recycling.
Mar 29, 2021 // Storage, Solar Panels, Sustainable, ERI, JB Straubel, Recycle Batteries, Redwood Materials, John Shegerian
Hunt Energy Network targets placing 500MW of distribution-level batteries into Texas' ERCOT market
An energy storage space project pipeline of 500MW in Texas's ERCOT market is being developed by Dallas-headquartered distributed energy sources programmer as well as driver Hunt Energy Network.
Mar 26, 2021 // Storage, USA, North America, ERCOT, Hunt Energy Network, Patrick Norton, Pat Wood
Blue Planet Energy launches brand-new Blue Ion HI stackable lithium battery system
Blue Planet Energy has actually released a new energy storage system, the Blue Ion HI. The stackable, maintenance-free lithium system is backed by a 15-year performance service warranty to ensure dependable power delivery, day or evening, on or off grid.
Mar 25, 2021 // Storage, lithium battery, Blue Planet Energy, Jeff Richardson, Michael Menendez
AGL Introduces Building of Grid-Scale Battery, Takes FID on 250 MW Project
Australia based incorporated crucial provider AGL energy has actually revealed that the construction of a 250 megawatt (MW), one-hour period grid-scale battery at Torrens Island will certainly begin this year, following AGL's last financial investment choice (FID) on the project.
Mar 25, 2021 // Storage, Australia, Oceania, Markus Brokhof, Brett Redman, AGL Energy Battery Storage, Grid-Scale battery
Scottish Renewables asks for energy storage 'rate flooring'
Report with hydropower manufacturers recommends presenting funding device to sustain capacity
Mar 24, 2021 // Storage, UK, Europe, Cara Dalziel, Simon Hamlyn, Drax Group
Big innovation for 'massless' energy storage
Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology have actually created a structural battery that carries out ten times better than all previous variations. It includes carbon fiber that offers at the same time as an electrode, conductor, and also load-bearing product. Their most recent research study innovation leads the way for basically 'massless' energy storage in lorries and also various other technology.
Mar 24, 2021 // Technology, Storage, Sweden, Europe, Chalmers University of Technology, Leif Asp
Study reveals plunge in lithium-ion battery prices
The price of the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries utilized for phones, laptops, and also cars has actually fallen drastically over the last 3 decades, and has been a significant vehicle driver of the fast growth of those innovations. Yet attempting to measure that price decrease has created uncertain and contradictory outcomes that have hindered attempts to project the innovation's future or develop beneficial plans and research study top priorities.
Mar 24, 2021 // Technology, Storage, Lithium-ion batteries, Jessika Trancik, MIT, lithium-ion, Micah Ziegler
Pacific Green enters into arrangement to develop 1.1 GW of UK battery storage
International cleantech company Pacific Green has actually signed an exclusivity contract to develop as much as 1.1 GW of battery energy storage space systems (BESS) in the UK sourced by TUPA Energy.
Mar 23, 2021 // Storage, UK, Europe, BESS, Pacific Green, Tupa Energy, Chris Atherton, Scott Poulter
European storage market 'set to double in 2021'
Grid secondary services in markets including the UK, Italy as well as Nordics are driving growth, states report from EASE
Mar 23, 2021 // Storage, Sweden, UK, Italy, Europe, Norway, EASE, Jon Ferris
DOE Introduces $24.5 Million for Production Flow Batteries and Resilient Electric Grids
The USA Department of Energy (DOE) has actually introduced USD 24.5 million to sustain production of resilient, modern-day electricity framework, flow battery systems, and to attend to the climate emergency.
Mar 22, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, Grids, USA, North America, US DOE, Flow battery system, resilient electricity, Diana DeGette