Energy

By Andy Colthorpe Vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) manufacturer VRB Energy will supply a 500kWh energy storage system to a Chinese government scientific facility with the potential that it will be used to help develop the country’s decarbonisation policies. Mineral exploration and resource development company Sparton Resources, an investor and owner of a minority stake …

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By Andy Colthorpe Vertically integrated solar PV company SunPower and residential battery storage provider sonnen have each started up programmes to deploy solar-plus-storage for communities in California and New York respectively. SunPower said yesterday that its solar and storage equipment will be installed as standard in 128 new homes in Placer County, California, through a …

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By Andy Colthorpe Regulatory approval has been given for a 100MW / 400MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) facility which will be sited on land formerly occupied by a natural gas and oil-fired power plant which had been described as one of New York’s biggest sources of pollution. The New York Public Service Commission (PSC), …

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By Andy Colthorpe Electric school buses in the US could be turned into a virtual power plant (VPP) resource, through a new partnership between student transport supplier Zum Services and artificial intelligence-driven distributed energy software company AutoGrid. The pair announced yesterday that over the next four years, they want to use the batteries of 10,000 …

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By Andy Colthorpe A proposed 2,650MW pumped hydro energy storage project in Washington State has received a preliminary permit from the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Developer Daybreak Power said yesterday that its US$4.9 billion Halverson Canyon Pumped Storage project received the favourable regulatory decision just before the end of June. The project would …

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By John Kemp LONDON, July 20 (Reuters) – Coal-fired power plants are proving hard to shutdown in developing economies because they are cheap and convenient, but keeping them going is pumping out carbon dioxide at a rate far beyond the level needed to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. Coal, which is being phased out …

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By Reuters WASHINGTON/CAIRO, July 17 (Reuters) – The United States on Saturday accused Tehran of an “outrageous” effort to deflect blame for the impasse in Iran nuclear talks and denied that any agreement had been reached on a prisoner swap. Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, Abbas Araqchi, said earlier on Twitter that the next round of …

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