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Articles in category: Smart Grid

1. Opinion: Smart Grid = Coercion; Storage = consumer choice

   Explore naatbatt.org Nov 25 2011 Smart Grid , Utility Grid

   

   Demand response moves costs from the utilities to the consumer. Compelling a consumer to wash clothes at night, or pay premium rates for a more a convenient time, enables the utility to spend less to accommodate peak load. But compelling a consumer to either pay more or be regularly inconvenienced is a cost to that consumer. Distributed storage can solve the peak demand problem while not making the consumer pay.

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2. Panasonic/Sanyo Green Energy Park features storage

   Explore Green & Sustainable Business News Nov 18 2011 Solar Photovoltaic , Smart Grid , Lithium

   

   The most critical component of the Green Energy Park is the 1.5MW Li-ion battery. 310,000 batteries are entombed in 1000 battery systems.

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   Mentions: Japan Sanyo Panasonic

3. Overview: Storage market post FERC frequency regulation ruling

   Explore news.thomasnet.com Nov 15 2011 Solar Photovoltaic , Smart Grid , Flow Battery , Flywheel

   

   The FERC ruling will benefit companies using technologies that regulate and store energy. And as these technologies are developed and refined, they will also benefit the renewable energy industry, allowing nationwide energy providers, municipal organizations and even individuals to make better use of clean energy sources.

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   Mentions: California Maryland ESA

4. Los Alamos and Japan collaborate on smart grid with storage

   Explore Businessweek Nov 11 2011 Smart Grid

   

   Officials are celebrating the groundbreaking of a 2MW solar array in Los Alamos that will be part of a smart grid collaboration with Japan … Later phases of the project will include a large-scale battery.

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   Mentions: Japan DoE New Mexico

5. Enel builds Italy's first smart grid with 700kW storage

   Explore reuters.com Nov 6 2011 Smart Grid

   

   The distribution arm of Italy's biggest utility, Enel , started installing the first smart grid in Italy, part of its push to develop the technology needed to handle electricity flows from decentralised, fluctuating renewable power sources.

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   Mentions: Italy Siemens

6. Maui Smart Grid Project

   Explore staradvertiser.com Nov 6 2011 Solar Photovoltaic , Wind , Smart Grid , Utility Grid

   

   The project will install smart controls at Maui Electric facilities at regional and neighborhood levels. The technologies include … battery storage systems.

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   Mentions: Japan DoE Hawaii

7. Sustainable Energy's inverter for grid storage

   Explore marketwire.com Nov 4 2011 Commercial & Industrial , Smart Grid , Utility Grid

   

   Sustainable Energy Technologies will manufacture a 4.6kW high-efficiency inverter for grid-interactive 48 volt lithium ion and lead acid battery packages.

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   Mentions: Germany Canada

8. Silicon Valley Smart Grid Task Force study cites storage

   Explore Green & Sustainable Business News Nov 2 2011 Smart Grid , Utility Grid , Flow Battery

   

   Breaking the smart grid industry into four parts: power management and energy efficiency, energy storage, local clean energy and delivery of electricity, the research indicates that the smart grid “is a job engine that California can rely on,” says an ...

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   Mentions: California GE Google

9. Distributed storage could minimize grid cybersecurity risk

   Explore gigaom.com Oct 28 2011 Smart Grid

   

   The emergence of the smart grid has raised concerns about cybersecurity among utilities; two-way digital networks are more vulnerable. But distributed renewables generation, combined with energy storage, could minimize the impact of an attack.

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   Mentions: Southern California Edison Duke Energy NRG Energy

10. NIST releases update to smart grid framework

    Explore Green Car Congress Oct 27 2011 Smart Grid

    

    The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released an updated roadmap for public comment for Smart Grid interoperability. The Roadmap adds 22 standards, specifications and guidelines to the 75 NIST recommended as immediately applicable to the Smart Grid in the first roadmap, released in January 2010.

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    Mentions: NIST

11. International Battery’s Utility-Scale Li-Ion Goes After Solar

    Explore Greentech Media Oct 24 2011 Solar Photovoltaic , Smart Grid , Flow Battery , Lithium

    

    "What makes us different is that we develop and manufacture large-format prismatic lithium-ion cells using a water-based manufacturing process. We work with lithium-iron phosphate and lithium cobalt manganese, but we are chemistry agnostic -- we are not an inventor of lithium chemistries." said [former] CEO Almgren.

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    Mentions: Pennsylvania GM U.S.

12. Opinion: EV Storage Can Ignite The Smart Grid

    Explore FastCompany.com Oct 21 2011 Smart Grid

    

    In a nutshell, V2G can be leveraged to convert plugged in vehicles into a massive storage function for energy, including renewables and to actually sell energy back to a local utility when the car is not in use and when peak demand is high.

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    Mentions: NY Nissan Illinois

13. Opinion: Storage Empowers Consumers, Smart Grid Punishes/Rewards

    Explore naatbatt.org Oct 21 2011 Smart Grid , Utility Grid

    

    [Smart Grid] Demand response does not empower anybody. It is about persuading electricity consumers to behave in a way they would prefer not to behave by imposing a system of economic rewards and punishments … The utilities should take the expense of back-up power off the backs of consumers and provide it as part of basic electricity service. This … gives consumers something of value and gives utilities a salable smart grid consumer benefit. The distributed storage units can become the information hubs of the smart grid, rather than the consumer home [with all the privacy issues].

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14. Schneider Buys Weather Forecaster: When to Charge & Drain Storage

    Explore tdworld.com Oct 20 2011 Smart Grid , Utility Grid

    

    [weather forecasting could] estimate generation by distributed resources such as solar and wind. They're dependent on the weather also. Throw in some distributed storage. You’d know when to charge it and when to drain it to minimize cost and/or maximize efficiency. No wonder Schneider Electric has acquired Telvent … which offers global precision weather forecasting.

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    Mentions: France Schneider

15. "Smart Transformer" for Bi-Directional Electricity Flow

    Explore Businessweek Oct 13 2011 Smart Grid , Utility Grid

    

    The FREEDM Center, a multiuniversity initiative headquartered at North Carolina State’s Centennial Campus in Raleigh, is developing a digital “smart transformer” that will allow electricity to flow throughout the grid, rather than solely from generators to users as it now does.

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    Mentions: GE Siemens ABB

16. Interview: Strategic Significance of Storage

    Explore elp.com Oct 11 2011 Wind , Smart Grid , Flow Battery , Flywheel

    Energy storage, in theory at least, is a technology with enormous potential to change the way energy is transported, dispatched and consumed. Because the energy sector is dynamic and technologies evolve every bit as fast, I spoke about energy storage with Edwin F. Feo, the managing partner of USRG Renewable Finance, one of the country’s largest private equity firms for renewable energy, biofuels and cleantech infrastructure.

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    Mentions: Japan DoE Hawaii

17. Not very visible smart grid projects

    Explore Smart Grid Oct 6 2011 Smart Grid

    

    Understandably, we hear a lot about the smart grid initiatives that big utilities are involved in. But there are some pretty interesting projects and pilots happening away from the limelight - in smaller utilities, cooperatives and out of the way places.

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    Mentions: GE Beacon Power

18. Rome Welcomes Toshiba for EV Charging Storage

    Explore CleanTechnica Sep 26 2011 Smart Grid , Vehicle-to-Grid/Home

    

    Italy is poised to welcome electric cars to the streets or Rome, according to Toshiba. Toshiba's Italian subsidiary Ansaldo Transmissione & Distribuzione S.p.A (Ansaldo T&D) won a contract to supply a smart grid distribution system to ACEA Distribuzione S.p.A (Gruppo ACEA), one of Italy’s leading public utilities. The system will include a solar power array and storage batteries, as well as a control unit and smart meters.

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    Mentions: Italy

19. CODA Automotive to Become a Grid Storage Company

    Explore Smart Grid Sep 26 2011 Smart Grid , Utility Grid

    

    CODA, the LA-based electric vehicle and battery company, has made a series of moves to prepare for a major foray into grid storage: … Closed a $147 million round of venture financing (taking its total funding to more than $300 million) … Purchased a battery management software company (EnergyCS of Monrovia, CA) … Brought on a smart grid veteran to run the storage division

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    Mentions: CODA

20. Maui Smart Grid Pilot Includes Community Storage

    Explore Mauinews.com Sep 23 2011 Microgrid & Community , Smart Grid

    

    In addition to the home-based equipment, Maui Electric Co. will evaluate a variety of smart grid applications such as community energy storage and an advanced computer system to monitor and manage delivery of electricity to customers.

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    Mentions: DoE Hawaii GE

21. Analysis: Smart grids swell Li-ion battery demand 80 fold

    Explore news.techeye.net Sep 23 2011 Smart Grid , Lithium

    

    A predicted boom in the use of smart grids is set to drive massive demand for lithium ion batteries. Revenues are set to rocket up to $5.98 billion by the end of the decade if the analyst [ihs.com] is correct. In comparison, revenues are expected to be at $72 million for 2012, meaning those in the know are stacking their chips on around an 80 fold increase.

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22. Duke Energy in China

    Explore naatbatt.org Sep 17 2011 Smart Grid

    

    Duke Energy is in China this week exploring commercial opportunities, undoubtedly trying to find ways to monetize Duke’s expertise in power technology.

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    Mentions: China Duke Energy Illinois

23. ABB Favors Distributed Storage for Swedish Project

    Explore Smart Grid Sep 7 2011 Smart Grid

    

    ABB's grid-connected distributed energy storage system will use the International Battery's lithium-ion batteries to provide storage capacity of 87 kilowatt-hours. The scalable and modular system offers thermal management and an extensive battery management system with active cell balancing.

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    Mentions: ABB Sweden PNNL

24. Report: Advanced Smart Grid: Edge Power Driving Sustainability

    Explore Greentech Media Aug 31 2011 Smart Grid

    

    Because utilities still depend on spinning reserve and other supply-side strategies to ensure reliability -- and even conduct long-term planning based on the assumption that energy storage will not be viable in the foreseeable future -- adding energy storage into the system will significantly disrupt the current energy ecosystem.

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    Mentions: GM Bright Energy

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