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Nissan office in France to house largest grid-integrated EV system yet

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Nissan’s new regional office in France will house the largest grid-integrated electric vehicle (EV) system and second-life battery storage unit yet installed in a building, anywhere. Grid integration trials have already begun in Denmark.

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BNEF ups forecast for global investment in stationary energy storage, sees majority of capacity likely to be grid-scale

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The report goes on to model the impact of this on a global electricity system increasingly penetrated by low-cost wind and solar. In the near term, renewables-plus-storage, especially solar-plus-storage, has become a major driver for battery build. —Logan Goldie-Scot, head of energy storage at BNEF.

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SGH2 building largest green hydrogen production facility in California; gasification of waste into H2

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It can also provide lowest-cost long-term storage for electrical grids relying on renewable energy. Fluor, a global engineering, procurement, construction and maintenance company, which has best-in-class experience in building hydrogen-from-gasification plants, will provide front-end engineering and design for the Lancaster facility.

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Lux: Total is leading example of oil supermajor expanding into solar plus storage and distributed generation

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France-based Total is the first oil supermajor aggressively to enter new areas of business including solar plus storage and distributed generation, notes Lux Research in a new report : “Superpower Darwinism: What Big Oil Can and Cannot Do About Total’s Billion-Dollar Battery Move.”. It’s not just the battery anymore.

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Ballard and HDF Energy sign development agreement for multi-megawatt fuel cell systems

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Ballard Power Systems has signed a product development agreement with Hydrogene de France ( HDF Energy ), an independent power producer dedicated to renewable power generation, for the development and integration of a multi-megawatt (MW) scale fuel cell system into HDF Energy’s Renewstable power plant designed for stationary power applications.

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BNEF: energy storage is a $1.2-trillion investment opportunity to 2040

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For their owners, they will perform a variety of tasks, including shifting grid demand in order to reduce electricity costs, storing excess rooftop solar output, improving power quality and reliability, and earning fees for helping to smooth voltage on the grid.

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Honda unveils Urban EV Concept, production version in 2019; electrified technology for every new model launched in Europe

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The system is designed to incorporate electric vehicles into a smart power grid. It enables the collection and distribution of electricity between the grid, homes and businesses and electric vehicles, to intelligently balance demand and efficient storage of energy. It underlines our pledge to develop a more sustainable mobility model.

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