SHEC Energy has developed a Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) and thermal energy storage technology to allow the production of renewable electricity 24 hours a day. A government granting organization recently completed a month long technical due diligence of SHEC Energy
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Compressed Air Energy Storage
The rapidly increasing penetration of intermittent renewable energy on grids worldwide and volatility of load profiles are encouraging demand for long duration energy storage. Aside from pumped hydro, compressed air energy storage (CAES) is the only commercial long duration storage technology to have been deployed at utility scale. As a result, demand for traditional underground … Continue reading Compressed Air Energy Storage
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Government investments in energy storage and related areas, such as the smart grid, continue to bear fruit, particularly in the North American and Asian markets. Both the global energy storage project pipeline and the number of deployed projects have grown. Meanwhile, the R&D and government funding strategies within each region are converging. While Asian economies … Continue reading Energy Storage
Continue readingWind Energy Storage Summit Co-Located With CanWEA2013 Announced
The program for the inaugural Renewable Energy Storage Summit was announced today with leading system operators, utilities, wind developers and investors featured. The Summit takes place October 7th, co-located and supported by CanWEA 2013 – Canada’s largest wind energy conference. By solving key challenges around integration, curtailment and dispatchability, energy storage is set to shift … Continue reading Wind Energy Storage Summit Co-Located With CanWEA2013 Announced
Continue readingWind energy storage tested
Researchers in the Pacific Northwest are testing and evaluating a new power storage system that could help store excess electricity generated by the region’s many wind farms. The system announced Monday at south-central Washington’s Nine Canyon Wind Project includes lithium-ion batteries that can store 500 kilowatt-hours of power — enough energy to meet the demand … Continue reading Wind energy storage tested
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Concentrated solar power installation with thermal energy storage
On July the 3rd 2013 Archimede Solar Energy (ASE) and Chiyoda Corporation ground break the most advanced concentrated solar power installation with thermal energy storage. On July the 3rd 2013 Archimede Solar Energy (ASE) and Chiyoda Corporation ground break the most advanced concentrated solar power installation with thermal energy storage. The CSP plant represents the first … Continue reading Concentrated solar power installation with thermal energy storage
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Energy Storage for Wind Energy and Solar Power Integration
More than 1,300 GW of wind and solar energy are expected to come online in the next 10 years. This variable generation will create an unprecedented amount of instability on the grid – particularly in key markets within North America, Western Europe, and Asia Pacific. As grid operators adapt to increasing levels of variable generation … Continue reading Energy Storage for Wind Energy and Solar Power Integration
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Offshore Wind Farm Operator BARD Engineering Stores Operating Data with a Storage Solution from Dell
Emden, Germany, based BARD Engineering has deployed a Dell storage solution to cope with rapidly growing data volumes that have resulted from the constant monitoring and controlling of offshore wind farms. Specializing in the planning, implementation and operation of wind turbines, BARD Engineering now benefits from 120 TBs of storage capacity to automatically collect data … Continue reading Offshore Wind Farm Operator BARD Engineering Stores Operating Data with a Storage Solution from Dell
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Eos Raises $15M for Zinc-Air Grid Batteries
Eos Energy Storage, the zinc-air battery startup targeting a super-low $160 per kilowatt-hour for grid-scale energy storage, has raised a $15 million Series B round from a syndicate of twenty-one strategic and financial investors, including Fisher Brothers and a big potential strategic partners, NRG Energy. New York-based Eos has previously raised about $12 million from … Continue reading Eos Raises $15M for Zinc-Air Grid Batteries
Continue readingEnergy Storage for Ancillary Services
Ancillary services are the auxiliary services required to balance the grid in order to reliably maintain the electricity grid. Such applications include frequency regulation, voltage support, spinning reserve, electric supply reserve capacity, and load following. Over the next 10 years the market for ancillary services, and the energy storage systems that enable them, will be driven … Continue reading Energy Storage for Ancillary Services
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Smart grids and energy storage determine solar energy growth
Solar energy will not become an integral part of the energy supply system in Europe until suppliers, including private residences, have unlimited access to the energy grid. In practice, this would mean that they could supply their self-produced solar energy to the grid at a profitable rate 24/7. This is not yet the case today, … Continue reading Smart grids and energy storage determine solar energy growth
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DOE opens new funding opportunity for Concentrating Solar Power energy storage
On April 23rd, 2013 the US Department of Energy (DOE) opened a new USD 20 million funding opportunity for thermochemical energy storage (TCES) systems as a component of concentrating solar power (CSP) technology. DOE seeks designs that can validate a cost of less than USD 15 per kWh-thermal and operate at temperatures higher than 650 … Continue reading DOE opens new funding opportunity for Concentrating Solar Power energy storage
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NREL study values Concentrated Solar Power with thermal energy storage above PV
The US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratories (NREL, Golden, Colorado, US) has released a new report which quantifies the value that concentrating solar power (CSP) with thermal energy storage can add to California’s grid. “Analysis of Concentrating Solar Power with Thermal Energy Storage in a California 33% Renewable Scenario” puts the value of … Continue reading NREL study values Concentrated Solar Power with thermal energy storage above PV
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Smoothing Renewable Wind Energy in Texas
The Notrees Wind Storage Demonstration Project is a 36-megawatt energy storage and power management system, which completed testing and became fully operational in December. It shows how energy storage can moderate the intermittent nature of wind by storing excess energy when the wind is blowing and making it available later to the electric grid to … Continue reading Smoothing Renewable Wind Energy in Texas
Continue readingResearchers develop energy storage system
Canadian researchers have developed a ground-breaking method which may ultimately enable excess energy created by wind turbines and solar panels to be stored for later use. Two researchers at the University of Calgary report in the journal Science that they have invented a relatively inexpensive way of using rust to act as a catalyst for … Continue reading Researchers develop energy storage system
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Altairnano Lithium Titanate Energy Storage System Commissioned at Vestas Wind Farm
Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. (Altairnano) (NASDAQ: ALTI) has commissioned a 1.2 megawatt (MW) ALTI-ESS lithium-titanate battery system at a Danish wind farm supplied by Vestas Wind Systems A/S (Vestas), a global leader in wind power. The demonstration project is one of several initiatives currently using Altairnano’s energy storage technology to advance renewable power integration. Headquartered in … Continue reading Altairnano Lithium Titanate Energy Storage System Commissioned at Vestas Wind Farm
Continue readingEnergy Storage Systems for Ancillary Services
Ancillary services are the services required to maintain safe, reliable, and secure transmission of energy on the grid. Designed to respond to the technical challenges of generating, transmitting and distributing electricity, these services are required to balance the grid regardless of the structure of the electricity market. It can be challenging for a new technology
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Concentrating Solar Power Thermal Energy Storage vital for utilities and grid operators
The modern age of CSP can arguably be traced back to the 354 MW Solar Energy Generating Systems (SEGS) in the Mojave desert, which now make up the oldest operating plant in the world, as well as one of the largest. However, recent developments in the industry will see SEGS eclipsed by 5 projects that … Continue reading Concentrating Solar Power Thermal Energy Storage vital for utilities and grid operators
Continue readingCommercial Building Energy Storage Systems Will Expand More Than Five-Fold by 2022
The market for energy storage in commercial buildings includes one mature segment – energy storage systems for uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems – as well as two relatively nascent segments: electrical energy storage (EES) systems and thermal energy storage (TES) systems. In certain cities and regions where local utilities and governments allow building owners to … Continue reading Commercial Building Energy Storage Systems Will Expand More Than Five-Fold by 2022
Continue readingEnergy Storage in Commercial Buildings
The commercial buildings market is currently the largest source of revenue for stationary energy storage companies, primarily thanks to a robust uninterruptible power supply (UPS) industry, which requires an energy storage component. That segment alone is estimated to generate $3.7 billion in global sales in 2013. In addition, there is a relatively healthy market for thermal … Continue reading Energy Storage in Commercial Buildings
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