Solar Energy Storage and Battery News

An authorization to broaden Vistra's natural gas-fired Moss Landing generation station to 1,500 MW/6,000 MWh has been accepted, setting the stage for the world to see gigawatt-scale battery energy storage for the first time ever.

The 50 MWh battery will be colocated with phase 1 of the UPC/AC Renewables' 720 MW New England Solar Farm.

Argentine corporation Alcaal Group has signed an MoU with Chad's Ministry of Finance and also Ministry of Energy for a 200MW solar PV with a battery storage element located near the resources city of N'Djamena.

JBM Solar Projects is to build a brand-new 50MW solar ranch with battery storage at a site near Swindon.

Britishvolt has actually introduced the appointment of Ray Macera as Project Director for the building and also application of Britain's initial battery gigaplant.

AGL Energy has set an objective of installing 1,200 MW of new battery storage space as well as need response capacity by 2024, and is connecting the perks for executives and also senior administration to hit growth targets for the company's clean energy and storage space portfolio.

The residential storage space market doubled last year, driven by disastrous blackouts that have actually consisted of wild fires, storms, as well as various other problems in countries all over the world. The growing global market for residential battery storage is being sustained by brand-new remedies that are linking roof PV properties to battery financial institutions controlled by powerful new software platforms. Huawei is entering placement to sustain the growing need with a brand-new collection of clever solar+ storage space solutions

Experts at Wood Mackenzie have looked at plans for the incoming years as well as wrapped up that concerning 119 production sites will be up and running by 2030. China presently sits firmly in the driving seat, with Asia Pacific making up 80% of international production ability, however Europe is catching up.

Dutch researchers have evaluated the two most promising solar-assisted technologies to generate environment-friendly hydrogen, based upon the levelized cost of hydrogen. They found that PV-powered hydrogen manufacturing uses the lowest expenses, at $6.22/ kg, with a solar-to-hydrogen effectiveness ratio of 10.9%

Energy Jemena has actually consented to generate hydrogen gas for Hyundai's Macquarie Park headquarters in higher Sydney from very early 2021.

The UKs largest council-owned battery storage space site, the 30MW Fideoak Mill website, is currently completely operational.

Thermal power storage company Sunamp has increased ₤ 4.5 million in Series A funding to help support its international expansion.

The minister of money and also budget and the minister of energy have actually signed a memorandum of recognizing with Argentina-based Alcaal Group connecting to the expediency research studies of a photovoltaic or pv plant with a capacity of approximately 200 MW with huge storage capacity on the outskirts of the nation's resources.

The facility's size and functional pattern could be optimized using a mixed-integer linear programming-based model. By offering hydrogen, supplying grid supplementary solutions as well as selling byproduct oxygen, power-to-gas business economics could be considerably boosted.

Researchers from India's Centre for Nano and also Soft Matter Sciences (CeNS) have actually established a sychronisation polymer based driver for hydrogen manufacturing that exhibited incredibly high sturdiness for 70 hrs at a high present thickness of − 300 mA/ cm2.