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Aggreko’s new fleet of battery storage systems
Aggreko, has launched a new fleet of battery storage systems. These are fully integrated units intended to help customers maintain a 100% reliable power supply while reducing the...
First automated battery storage system
On 2 July, RTE, the French public electricity transmission system operator, together with its partner Nidec Industrial Solutions, inaugurated RTE's first experimental site for...
Siemens to build one of Europe’s largest battery storage facilities
Siemens Smart Infrastructure and Zukunftsenergie Nordostbayern GmbH have signed a letter of intent for the turnkey construction of a 100 MW battery storage facility in the German town...
New York to explore green hydrogen potential
New York governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced on 12 July that the state plans to explore the potential role of green hydrogen as part of its decarbonisation strategy. The state...
Ørsted completes Permian Energy Center
The company's first utility-scale solar plus battery storage project has reached commercial operation, making Ørsted the first developer to operate the full spectrum of new...
MAN Energy solutions to partner on world’s largest LAES project
Highview Power has selected MAN Energy Solutions to provide its liquid air energy storage (LAES) turbomachinery solution to for Highview’s CRYOBattery facility, a 50 MW...
Turkey’s first grid-stabilising battery commissioned
Aggreko has successfully commissioned Turkey’s first grid-stabilising battery. The 500 kW, one-hour lithium-ion system will help the regional distribution system operator enhance...
£1 million gravity energy storage demonstrator is taking shape
Work is reported to be well advanced on a 250 kW demonstrator energy storage device at its site in Edinburgh, Scotland. This is a ground-breaking project to store renewable energy...
Wärtsilä to supply energy storage systems for Texas grid
Wärtsilä is to supply its energy storage technology for two major projects in southern Texas, USA. The interconnected stand-alone systems will have a combined rated capacity of 200...
Demonstration of subsea wave power
Scottish wave power company Mocean Energy and energy storage developer EC-OG, with Chrysaor, Modus, OGTC and Baker Hughes have invested £1.6 million in a programme to develop a wave...
National Grid storage trials ‘highly successful’
Software platform provider Arenko has announced that the Reserve from Storage trial, which it pioneered throughout the summer of 2020 with the UK’s National Grid ESO, has proved...
Energy storage system to boost Mexico’s wind power
Wärtsilä has been contracted to provide a project-critical energy storage system for the 50 MW Eolica Coromuel, S. de R. L (ECO) Wind Farm in La Paz, Mexico. The storage system...
Singapore’s first virtual power plant
Hitachi ABB Power Grids has been selected to deploy its energy storage solution to support the development of Singapore’s first virtual power plant project. The project, launched in...
Centrica enters into battery storage agreement
Alfen has been selected by Centrica Business Solutions, a UK energy and services company, as a preferred partner for the supply of sub–10 MW battery energy storage solutions. With...
New energy storage project will be one of world’s largest
Independent energy company InterGen, based in Edinburgh, has been granted consent for the UK’s largest battery energy storage project. The project is more than ten times the size of...
California needs up to 55 GW of long term storage
By 2045, California will require the deployment of up to a 55 GW of long duration energy storage to support its 100% clean electricity goals. This represents more than a 150X increase...
German State to fund energy storage solution
As part of its ‘progres.nrw’ funding programme, German state North Rhine-Westphalia is providing funding of €200 000 for a technical and economic-evaluation study of the new MAN...
UK’s largest battery goes on line
Gresham House Energy Storage Fund and flexible energy specialist Flexitricity have announced that the UK’s largest battery is now live and helping National Grid ESO balance supply...
Saft launches new energy storage hub
Saft has opened a new manufacturing hub for energy storage solutions in Zhuhai, China. The new plant will enable Saft to provide an integrated approach to energy storage worldwide....