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MARCH 15, 2014

Toshiba Corporation has delivered battery energy storage systems integrating the company’s SCiB Li-ion battery ( earlier post ) to Kyushu Electric Power Co., for a demonstration project to expand introduction of renewable energy sources on remote islands. The demonstration program will run for three years to fiscal 2016.

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AUGUST 29, 2021

A team at MITEI (MIT Energy Initiative) has found that hydrogen-generated electricity can be a cost-competitive option for backing up wind and solar. Currently, plants burning fossil fuels, primarily natural gas, fill in the gaps as peaker plants—a tendency that is likely to grow pari passu with VREs.

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MARCH 24, 2023

The Wärtsilä 50SG is a four-stroke, spark-ignited gas engine generating set. The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) also participated in the tests and led the assessment of the engine’s performance during the testing. Throughout the testing period, the Wärtsilä engine continued to supply power to the grid.

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MAY 20, 2013

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) have identified two compressed air energy storage methods for the temporary storage of the Northwest’s excess wind power and two eastern Washington locations to put them into practice.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Four companies—Pathfinder Renewable Wind Energy, Magnum Energy, Dresser-Rand and Duke-American Transmission—have proposed a first-in-the-US, $8-billion green energy initiative that would bring large amounts of clean electricity to the Los Angeles area by 2023. million megawatt-hours per year vs. 3.9

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AUGUST 31, 2020

Despite the much-vaunted megatrend involving the global electrification drive and shift to renewable energy , the most ambitious pledges by Big Oil to pursue net-zero agendas remain weak at best. Let this sink in: In 2018, Big Oil spent less than 1% of its combined budget on green energy projects. 2 Total SA. 2 Total SA.

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AUGUST 19, 2023

Wind and solar parks produce a large portion of their energy. Then, as now, wind farms are operating off the world’s coasts—but not all of these offshore sites are connected to the mainland via underwater power cables. Some of the wind farms instead sit in clusters more than 100 kilometers out at sea.

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JUNE 13, 2014

China Wanxiang Holding announced the planned formation of a joint venture between its wholly-owned subsidiary, Puxing Energy, and NEC Corporation to pursue grid energy storage opportunities in the Chinese market. Its formation is an important element of the recently announced NEC acquisition of A123 Energy Solutions.

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JANUARY 8, 2015

The California Independent System Operator (ISO), the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and the California Energy Commission (CEC) unveiled a comprehensive roadmap to assess the current market environment and regulatory policies for connecting new energy storage technology to the state’s power grid. Weisenmiller.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Dominion Energy announced a significant expansion of the company's greenhouse gas emissions-reduction goals, establishing a new commitment to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. The goal covers carbon dioxide and methane emissions, the dominant greenhouse gases, from both electricity generation and gas infrastructure operations.

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JULY 27, 2018

The only inputs needed are water and renewable electricity from wind, hydro power or photovoltaics. Green” hydrogen production is suited for long-term energy storage, hydrogen mobility and other applications, making optimal use of renewable energy sources. 20 MW module. Earlier post.).

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JULY 1, 2014

LAES has the potential to drive the development of variable renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power, due to its ability to convert excess/off-peak electricity into multi megawatts hours of stored energy. Highview’s LAES process. Click to enlarge. MWh LAES pilot plant to Birmingham. —Prof.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) announced a trial for a new type of electrolyzer which could see excess renewable energy stored in the gas grid and used to decarbonize Australia’s gas supply. In the future, there will be increasing amounts of surplus renewable energy when it is sunny or windy.

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JULY 6, 2020

In the short- to medium-term, hydrogen technology could be used to replace compressed natural gas (CNG) in some areas with minor changes to the existing infrastructure, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. Hydrogen fuel can be stored for long periods, in quantities limited only by the size of storage facilities.

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JUNE 30, 2019

Bloom Energy, a developer of solid oxide fuel cell power generators, announced the ability of its Energy Servers to operate on renewable hydrogen. Current Bloom Energy Servers generate electricity using natural gas or biogas as fuel.

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MAY 13, 2011

Audi A3 TCNG for e-gas project. Starting in 2013, Audi will begin series production of TCNG models whose engines—derived from TFSI units—will be powered by e-gas: synthetic methane produced via the methanation of hydrogen produced by electrolysis using renewable electricity. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 15, 2022

The world will need more than twenty times the amount of lithium than was mined last year to meet demand by mid-century, driven by growth in energy storage and electric vehicles, according to new analysis from Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. Annual production of 11.2 —Simon Moore.

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MARCH 10, 2013

A plot of ESOI for 7 potential grid-scale energy storage technologies. Benson from Stanford University and Stanford’s Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) has quantified the energetic costs of 7 different grid-scale energy storage technologies over time. Credit: Barnhart and Benson, 2013. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

The selected projects, or cooperative research and development agreements (CRADAs), will leverage the Advanced Research on Integrated Energy Systems (ARIES) platform to enable the integration of hydrogen technologies in future energy systems, including energy storage and a specific focus on safety and risk mitigation.

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JULY 1, 2015

TransAlta Corporation has been awarded $250,000 from Alberta Innovates - Energy & Environment Solutions (AI-EES) to help launch Alberta’s first large-scale commercial energy storage project. Home and business energy storage is just starting to gain momentum in the U.S, AI-EES received more than 50 proposals.

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MARCH 8, 2016

Kokam has successfully deployed two Lithium Nickel Manganese Cobalt (NMC) Oxide Energy Storage Systems (ESSs)—a 24-megawatt (MW) system / 9-megawatt hour (MWh) and a 16 MW / 6 MWh system—for frequency regulation on the South Korean electricity grid.

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MARCH 31, 2017

electrolysis powered by renewable electricity) to natural gas supports the decarbonization of the natural gas system and integration of sustainable energy sources. HYREADY focuses on the consequences of H 2 added to natural gas in an existing specific network and on feasible countermeasures to mitigate these consequences.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy is awarding $620 million for projects around the country to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems. The selected projects include advanced battery systems (including flow batteries), flywheels, and compressed air energy systems.

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JUNE 15, 2015

Nissan Motor Company and Green Charge Networks, a provider of commercial energy storage, are partnering to deploy second-life Li-ion vehicle batteries for stationary commercial energy storage in the US and international markets. General availability is targeted for Q4 2015. formed in 2010. Earlier post.). formed in 2010.

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JULY 2, 2013

received a project award from Apex Compressed Air Energy Storage, LLC for the supply of equipment to be used in a new 317 MW compressed air energy storage (CAES) facility to be constructed near Tennessee Colony, Texas in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) market. Dresser-Rand Group Inc.

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JUNE 21, 2021

RUSNANO will be represented by subsidiaries and partners and act as a co-contractor in terms of hydrogen fuel cells, energy storage systems based on lithium-ion storage batteries and other innovative technological solutions. The bulk of all work is done on clean energy sources.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 9, 2024

Installation of large-scale energy storage systems is expected to continue increasing in the U.S. According to data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) shared on Tuesday, U.S. energy storage system deployment is expected to nearly double in 2024, with battery capacity forecasted to grow by 89 percent.

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JULY 15, 2020

FLECCS project teams will work to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS) processes that better enable technologies, such as natural gas power generators, to be responsive to grid conditions in a high variable renewable energy (VRE) penetration environment. Phase 1 FLECCS projects are: GE Global Research. 8 Rivers Capital.

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APRIL 21, 2015

Toshiba Corporation has received an order to supply a large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) for a power frequency regulation project in Hamilton, Ohio. The project will be carried out by Sumitomo Corporation, Sumitomo Corporation of Americas and Renewable Energy Systems Americas, a US renewable energy developer.

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MAY 12, 2020

It estimates that more than 3 billion tons of minerals and metals will be needed to deploy wind, solar and geothermal power, as well as energy storage, to achieve greenhouse gas emission reductions sufficient to achieve a below 2°C future.

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AUGUST 12, 2013

IBM has developed an advanced power and weather modeling technology that will help utilities increase the reliability of renewable energy resources. The solution combines weather prediction and big data analytics to forecast accurately the availability of wind power and solar energy.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

With battery storage able to provide a unique role in balancing a renewable electricity grid, Toby Gill, CEO of Intelligent Power Generation, asks could innovations in green hydrogen and biofuel technologies contribute to a more optimized and economical energy mix? A line of electricity pylons in the UK countryside.

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OCTOBER 21, 2013

Clariant, a global provider of specialty chemicals, has supplied a proprietary CO 2 -SNG (synthetic natural gas) catalyst for the methanation unit of Audi’s new power-to-gas facility in Werlte, Germany. The “e-gas plant” was started up in June this year and is part of Audi’s sustainability initiative. Earlier post.).

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JULY 6, 2020

Operators can now link their plants to the German electricity market via E.ON’s virtual power plant. Earlier tests already demonstrated that our electrolysis plants can produce green hydrogen highly efficiently and with sufficient response speed and flexibility to participate in the energy balancing market. thyssenkrupp and E.ON

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JULY 13, 2022

Grants will be disbursed from the Innovation Fund to help bring technologies to the market in energy-intensive industries, hydrogen, renewable energy, carbon capture and storage infrastructure, and manufacturing of key components for energy storage and renewables. captured at a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant.

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JULY 18, 2020

The SMUD (2020 Sacramento Municipal Utility District) Board of Directors adopted a climate emergency declaration that commits to working toward an ambitious goal of delivering carbon-neutral electricity by 2030. Furthermore, SMUD has reduced the carbon intensity of its power mix, which is now 50% carbon-free on average.

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JULY 10, 2022

The money will help projects further develop their greenhouse gas removal technologies, which include a machine that can pull carbon dioxide out of the air, a plant to convert household waste into hydrogen for use in the transport industry, and a system to remove carbon dioxide from seawater. Biohydrogen Greenhouse Gas Removal Demonstration”.

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