Solar Energy Storage and Battery News

Canadian Company Shuts $10M Series A to Expand Lithium Refining Capacity
The round was led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) with participation from existing capitalist BDC Capital's Cleantech Practice (BDC). The business will use the investment to develop its very first operational, commercial-scale plant with the intention of expanding lithium refining capacity in the Western Hemisphere.
Nov 23, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, Canada, North America, breakthrough energy ventures, BEV, Carmichael Roberts, Mangrove Lithium, Saad Dara, Series A investment round, Vancouver
RWE chooses technology for 117MW German storage
SMA Solar will certainly offer system for integrating as well as optimising charging as well as discharging of batteries
Nov 22, 2021 // Storage, Germany, Europe, rwe, sma solar, Andrea Hu-Bianco, Sebastian Seidl
Biden's Build Back Better strategy passes House as Senate fight looms
The United States House of Representatives has actually passed Joe Biden's Build Back Better act, which now transfers to the Us senate, where negotiations will proceed over the legislation that consists of clean power and also environment investments amounting to US$ 555 billion.
Nov 22, 2021 // Manufacturing News, Storage, Policy, USA, SEIA, ITC, North America, Joe Biden, investment tax credit, ACORE, SEMA
1.5 GW of Irish PV to obtain grid connection provides through ECP procedure
Eirgrid and ESB Networks have actually launched the full listing of renewable resource projects to get grid connection supplies in Ireland via their enduring connection policy (ECP) process, with solar PV representing most of these.
Nov 22, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Storage, Grids, Ireland, Europe, solar farm, Esb, Paul Carson, Eirgrid
NESF doubles down on PPA strategy as its mounted capacity rises by 10%.
NextEnergy Solar Fund's (NESF) overall set up capability currently stands at 895MW, with the company remaining to focus on long-lasting corporate power acquisition arrangements (PPAs).
Nov 19, 2021 // Large-Scale, Markets & Finance News, Storage, UK, PPA, Europe, Nesf
Sunnica sends prepare for 500MW PV-plus-storage in UK
Planned project would certainly connect to the Burwell National Grid substation in Cambridgeshire
Nov 19, 2021 // Plants, Storage, Sunnica, UK, Europe, PV-plus-storage
Australian Scientists to Study How Tesla Car Batteries Can Power Grid
For the very first phase of the study, Tesla owners in Australia, the United States, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Germany and Britain can apply. The programme could be expanded later on to include various other electric vehicle firms.
Nov 19, 2021 // Technology, Storage, Grids, Australia, Oceania, University of Queensland, Jake Whitehead, Tesla Inc, UQ, V2G technology
Panasonic updates EverVolt property battery to 17.1 kWh
Panasonic today introduced the 2nd edition of its EverVolt home battery system. EverVolt 2.0 will have a constant power result of 7.6 kW off-grid as well as 9.6 kW with the grid, as well as with an useful ability of 17.1 kWh or 25.65 kWh. The system can be AC- and DC-coupled.
Nov 19, 2021 // Storage, Panasonic, Mukesh Sethi, EverVolt
Harmony Energy and also TagEnergy to create 100MW of battery storage projects
Harmony Energy has partnered with worldwide clean energy group TagEnergy for 2 grid-scale battery energy storage projects in England and also Scotland.
Nov 18, 2021 // Storage, UK, Europe, Harmony Energy, Peter Kavanagh, tagenergy
Rio Tinto Invests in InoBat to Support Battery Ecosystem in Europe
This financial investment will sustain the conclusion of InoBat's r & d centre and also pilot battery line in Voderady, Slovakia. It follows an MoU signed in May, describing an intention to work together to proceed the establishment of a "cradle-to-cradle" electrical vehicle battery value chain in Serbia.
Nov 18, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, UK, Europe, Rio Tinto, Inobat Auto,, Marian Bocek, Marnie Finlayson
Prospect14 offers 1GWdc development portfolio of PV, solar-plus-storage in PJM
Renewables designer as well as investment company Prospect14 has offered around 1GWdc of solar and also solar-plus-storage projects in Virginia and also Pennsylvania.
Nov 18, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Storage, USA, PJM, Virginia, solar-plus-storage, Pennsylvania, North America, EnergyStorageUSA, Prospect14
German ESS producer Tesvolt raises US$ 45m for global development and advancement
Energy storage modern technology business Tesvolt has concluded a financing round, elevating around EUR40 million (US$ 45.25 million) in equity capital.
Nov 17, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, Germany, Europe, electric vehicle, green hydrogen, nickel manganese cobalt
SunPower launches VPP in three US states as it looks for to enhance residential solar offering
United States solar installer SunPower has released its ConnectedSolutions virtual power plant (VPP), allowing SunVault battery energy storage system (BESS) consumers in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut to make "thousands of dollars a year" for allowing utility access to their saved power during peak need.
Nov 17, 2021 // Residential, Storage, Grids, USA, SunPower, BESS, North America, VPP, virtual power plant, Peter Faricy
Global Energy Storage Market Set to Hit One Terawatt-Hour by 2030
The united state and also China will certainly lead, declaring over half of the worldwide installments by the end of this years
Nov 17, 2021 // Storage, USA, Japan, Germany, UK, India, China, Australia, Europe, Asia, Oceania, North America, Yayoi Sekine, Yiyi Zhou
SEIA selects new supervisor of storage to enhance policy advocacy as well as sector support
The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has assigned US Department of Energy (DOE) proficient Jeremiah Miller as its new supervisor of storage markets and policy.
Nov 16, 2021 // Storage, Policy, SEIA, solar-plus-storage, appointments, EnergyStorageUSA, Jeremiah Miller