Solar Energy Storage and Battery News

The Portuguese government has disclosed some of the preliminary outcomes of the nationwide solar auction which closed on Tuesday. Antonio Delgado Rigal, president of energy forecasting solution Aleasoft, said that the 15-year contracts granted in the auction were the vital to understanding the reason of such an affordable price. This, combined with the civil liberties for land as well as grid link guaranteed by the auction, makes attractive bidding at small cost.

The South Korean photovoltaic panel manufacturer safeguarded around 300 MW of the 700 MW granted in the purchase round. The various other winners are reportedly Spanish power company Iberdrola, Italian peer Enel as well as French-owned programmer Tag Energy.

The United States Energy Storage Association (ESA) has actually taken on a target of 100GW of energy storage capability in the country by 2030, an ability it said would assist facilitate better penetration of renewables.

In markets like Germany, green hydrogen manufacturing costs will certainly equal fossil-fuel-based hydrogen by 2030, brand-new research study shows.

The Conolophus project is developed to lower diesel usage on Santa Cruz Island in Galapagos National Park, in addition to the surrounding island of Baltra.

With 2 new projects appearing at 100 MW each, the Texas storage market is showing that California isn't the only U.S. state that can do large batteries.

pv magazine consulted with Catherine Von Burg, CEO of the Californian battery company, to go over why she believes lithium-iron-phosphate is the chemistry of the future.

Epsilon Carbon has appointed a new manufacturing center to produce artificial graphite anode products for lithium-ion batteries. It intends to spend US$ 70 million over the following 5 years to increase the plant's capacity to 50,000 tons.

Sunrun CEO Lynn Jurich claims storage is "critical for equity"-- as well as putting even more standalone storage on the grid suggests much less electricity experiencing cables in wildfire-prone areas.

There's no understating the importance of keeping a risk-free battery system, and that maintenance will come to be only more vital as battery fostering grows tremendously in the coming years. Luckily, brand-new criteria are being established alongside existing protocols to make safety management attire and also convenient.

Facilities company LS Power is to switch on what is thought to be the globe's largest single-site battery project at 250MW prior to the end of the month.

Possession management company Capital Dynamics has authorized a deal with Nebraskan independent power manufacturer Tenaska to create nine battery energy storage space system (BESS) projects situated in California's highest possible electrical load centres.

Verkor plans to establish a battery fab, with manufacturing to begin in 2023. The scale might get to 50 GWh, relying on the dynamism of the fixed storage space as well as electrical lorry markets.

An absence of standard methods is preventing rechargeable zinc metal batteries from enhancing lithium-ion storage space technology. A U.S. research group is now calling for standard methods for columbic efficiencies as well as better zinc/electrolyte security to make the technology sensible.

A report from Wood Mackenzie forecasts lithium-iron-phosphate will certainly surpass lithium-manganese-cobalt-oxide as the dominant fixed power storage chemistry within the years.