Solar Energy Storage and Battery News

Sembcorp bags 150MW UK battery contract
15-year contract safeguarded in provisional results for the T-4 2025/26 Capacity Market auction
Feb 24, 2022 // Storage, Sembcorp Energy UK, SEUK, Andy Koss
ACEN Powers Up Philippines first Hybrid Solar-Storage Plant
The 2 × 20 MW energy storage facility is adjacent to ACEN's 120 MW Alaminos solar farm. The facility holds 24 battery containers with SAFT 2.5 MWh lithium-ion batteries, likely sufficient to power regarding 20,000 homes and avoid 35.87 MTCO2e exhausts annually.
Feb 24, 2022 // Plants, Storage, Asia, Philippines, ACEN, Alaminos solar farm, Eric Francia, Jose Maria Zabaleta
Biden wishes to cut into China's electric battery dominance
Head of state Joe Biden highlighted his initiatives to counter China's dominance of the electric battery market on Tuesday as he proclaimed domestic efforts to mine and also process lithium and rare-earth element required to produce the technology that powers cars, electronic devices, wind turbines as well as more.
Feb 23, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, Policy, USA, China, Asia, North America, Joe Biden, Jim Litinsky, Silvia Paz
Harmony Energy Income Trust notes value of two-hour duration in initial NAV figures considering that IPO
Harmony Energy Income Trust (HEIT) has actually emphasised the benefits of two-hour duration batteries, as it reports its web property value (NAV).
Feb 23, 2022 // Storage, TESLA, UK, Europe, Max Slade, Harmony Energy Income Trust, HEIT
e6-- India's First EV Model to Adopt BYD Blade battery Technology
Blade Battery exhibits both fast and slow charging functions The technology effectively passes the nail penetration test Maximized battery pack structure: space utilization increased by over 50 percent
Feb 23, 2022 // Storage, India, Asia, BYD, Blade Battery, eMPV e6, nail penetration test, Sanjay Gopalakrishnan
Solar marketplace Otovo increases $34m to fund entrance into six European markets
Norwegian start-up Otovo has actually protected NOK300 million (US$ 33.7 million) through an exclusive placement to sustain the growth of its solar marketplace right into six brand-new European countries.
Feb 22, 2022 // Residential, Markets & Finance News, Storage, Portugal, UK, Europe, Austria, Otovo
Smarten Plans to Launch a Range of EV Chargers, Li-ion Batteries
Indian power back-up producer Smarten aims to interrupt the energy storage market with 100% localized products for B2B and also B2C segments, the firm has stated. The brand intends to launch a variety of innovative products, such as EV chargers, Lithium-ion batteries, etc, out there this year, it mentioned.
Feb 22, 2022 // Storage, Lithium-ion batteries, EV chargers, power backup, Rajnish Sharma, Smarten
'One to watch on': LG Energy Solution's relocation downstream with NEC ES procurement
Industry-watchers will carefully follow just how the lately finished acquisition of energy storage space system integrator NEC ES by LG Energy Solution turns out.
Feb 21, 2022 // Storage, LG Energy, NEC ES
Financial debt finance offer will 'increase returns' for Genex's Tesla battery project in Queensland, Australia
Genex Power has actually received debt authorizations on a AU$ 35 million (US$ 25.26 million) debt money facility for its 50MW/100MWh Bouldercombe battery energy storage system (BESS) project in Queensland, Australia.
Feb 21, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, TESLA, Australia, Oceania, Genex Power
Fluence commissions 11MW battery at Killala
Greencoat Renewables will use the BESS in County Mayo, Ireland to participate in energy flexibility markets
Feb 21, 2022 // Storage, Ireland, Europe, Fluence, Greencoat Renewables, Marek Kubik, Ben Brooks
The new age remedy in energy storage space: Sodium (Na)- ion Battery
The flurry of recent news in the battery storage room suggest the sharp uptrend for the market to come. Among other things, technology is looking past Lithium Ion batteries, and Sodium-Ion in particular has actually been in focus. Sandeep Maharia of Oorjan weighs in.
Feb 21, 2022 // Storage, Lithium-ion batteries, Renewable Energy, Oorjan Cleantech, Na-ion battery, Sandeep Maharia, Wind Solar hybrid
New off-grid solar panel from China
Chinese supplier Bslbatt has revealed a modular lithium-ion battery that can be utilized for the off-grid storage of solar energy. The tool has a storage capacity ranging from 5.1 to 30.7 kWh as well as is asserted to provide constant procedure for approximately 6,000 charge cycles.
Feb 18, 2022 // Technology, Residential, Storage, Chine, Bslbatt
H-TEC gets Austrian green hydrogen gig
Energie Steiermark's 'renewable gasfield' project aims to feed the fuel right into the grid
Feb 17, 2022 // Storage, Europe, Austria, green hydrogen, H-TEC, Energie Steiermark
Trina Storage activates SMS's 50MW/56.2 MWh UK battery storage system
Trina Storage has actually completed the supply of its very first UK battery energy storage system (BESS), the 50MW/56.2 MWh fully incorporated grid-scale battery energy storage system had by SMS plc
Feb 16, 2022 // Storage, UK, Europe, Trina, Terry Chen
Ayana, Greenko Partner to Develop 6000MWhr Storage Capacity
Under the partnership, the firms will certainly develop firm and also dispatchable renewable energy options, including round-the-clock power supply of up to 1 GW to industry and also distribution firms in India.
Feb 15, 2022 // Storage, greenko group, Shivanand Nimbargi, mahesh kolli, ayana renewable power