Solar Energy Storage and Battery News

Roadmap Launched for Future Deployment of Energy Storage Technology
The function of power storage and also the part it will play in helping the UK reach its net-zero targets by 2050 has been laid out in a roadmap
Dec 9, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, EVs, University of Birmingham, Jonathan Radcliffe, David Elmes
SCE adds an extra 590 MW of brand-new power storage space capability
United States utility Southern California Edison (SCE) has actually signed long-term contracts for four projects totaling 590 MW of battery power storage space sources.
Dec 9, 2020 // Storage, USA, Southern California Edison, North America, SCE, William Walsh
CPS Energy intends to add 900 MW PV
Municipally-owned energy CPS Energy of San Antonio, Texas, has launched a Request for Proposal (RFP) to add up to 900 MW of solar, 50 MW of energy storage and also 500 MW of firming ability. It belongs to the firm's new "Flex Power Bundle" initiative.
Dec 8, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, USA, North America, Solar Project, cps energy
EDF to optimise UK battery crew
SWGT's 30GW of utility-scale storage space possessions will certainly be covered by the bargain
Dec 8, 2020 // Storage, UK, EDF, Europe, Olivia He, Adam Clarke
California utility strikes 590MW storage space bargains
Long-lasting contracts signed for four projects coming online in August 2022 and 2023
Dec 8, 2020 // Storage, USA, Southern California Edison, North America, NextEra Energy, recurrent energy, William Walsh
LG Chem recalls some residence batteries in United States adhering to reports of fires
LG Chem has actually willingly recalled some of its domestic battery products in the United States amidst issues surrounding fire safety.
Dec 7, 2020 // Residential, Storage, USA, LG CHEM, Sunrun, BrightBox, North America, Ryan Franks
As Battery Cell Prices Struck $110/KWH, Challenges Remain
According to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence's research, Lithium-ion battery cell rates have actually lowered from $290/kWh in 2014 to $110/kWh in 2020 (big agreement automotive), and also there is a sight in the lithium-ion market that this trend will certainly proceed forever.
Dec 4, 2020 // Storage, Market Research, lithium-ion battery, Lithium ion, benchmark mineral intelligence, li-ion battery costs
Fikile Brushett is trying to find brand-new ways to keep energy
Fikile Brushett, an MIT partner teacher of chemical design, had an unusual resource of motivation for his occupation in the chemical sciences: the character played by Nicolas Cage in the 1996 motion picture "The Rock." In the movie, Cage represents an FBI drug store that hunts down a group of rogue U.S. soldiers who have actually commandeered chemical weapons and also taken over the island of Alcatraz.
Dec 3, 2020 // Technology, Storage, USA, Lithium-ion batteries, MIT, North America, Fikile Brushett, John Vohs
New york city reveals 250-kWh demo battery at NYPA in White Plains
The New York Power Authority (NYPA) in White Plains revealed a brand-new lithium-ion power storage space project moneyed partly by NYSERDA made use of as a demo project for additional energy storage space release. Cadenza Innovation developed the battery technology.
Dec 3, 2020 // Storage, USA, New York, North America, nypa, Gil C. Quiniones, Doreen M. Harris, Christina Lampe-Onnerud, Helena Garriga, William Acker
Scaling dispersed solar as well as storage space is lowest-cost course for United States to get to clean electric grid-- study
Deploying at the very least 247GW of rooftop and also community solar and also 160GW of local energy storage is one of the most economical means for the United States to change to a clean energy system by 2050, a brand-new report has located.
Dec 2, 2020 // Residential, Markets & Finance News, Storage, Grids, Policy, USA, SEIA, Sunrun, solar-plus-storage, North America, Sean Gallagher, Vote Solar, Jeff Cramer
ReneSola to establish 20-MW solar, 26-MWh storage space project for Northern California energy VCE
Solar project designer ReneSola has actually signed a PPA for a solar and battery system with Northern California-based Valley Clean Energy (VCE), a public power company serving over 125,000 consumers in cities of Woodland and Davis, as well as Unincorporated Yolo County.
Dec 1, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, USA, PPA, North America, renesola, Yumin Liu, Gordon Samuel
Gresham House acquires 50MW UK battery
Wickham Market project in Suffolk brings fund's total storage portfolio to 315MW
Nov 30, 2020 // Storage, UK, Europe, Gresham House
Total Solar DG constructing solar, storage space crossbreed micro-grid in Cambodia
France's Total Solar Distributed Generation (DG) on Monday said that it has partnered with Singapore-based programmer Canopy Power Pte Ltd to understand a solar as well as storage space hybrid micro-grid project in Cambodia.
Nov 30, 2020 // Storage, Grids, Asia, Cambodia, Total Solar DG, micro-grid
Tougher Battery Standards Sought by EU in Shift to Electric Cars
Europe intends to impose more stringent ecological requirements for batteries as it begins a radical economic overhaul readied to enhance electrical lorries and also tidy power.
Nov 30, 2020 // Storage, Transport, electric cars, Europe, Virginijus Sinkevicius
InterGen reveals UK's biggest battery storage project with 320MW Essex site
InterGen has actually gotten intending authorization for the UK's biggest battery storage project, which will be built at DP Word London Gateway on the Thames Estuary in Essex.
Nov 30, 2020 // Storage, UK, Europe, InterGen, Jim Lightfoot