Panasonic/Sanyo Green Energy Park features storage
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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Articles in category: Smart Grid
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Overview: Storage market post FERC frequency regulation ruling
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.Read Full Article -
Los Alamos and Japan collaborate on smart grid with storage
Read Full ArticleOfficials 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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Enel builds Italy's first smart grid with 700kW storage
Read Full ArticleThe 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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Maui Smart Grid Project
Read Full ArticleThe project will install smart controls at Maui Electric facilities at regional and neighborhood levels. The technologies include … battery storage systems.
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Sustainable Energy's inverter for grid storage
Sustainable Energy Technologies will manufacture a 4.6kW high-efficiency inverter for grid-interactive 48 volt lithium ion and lead acid battery packages.Read Full Article -
Silicon Valley Smart Grid Task Force study cites storage
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 ...Read Full Article -
Distributed storage could minimize grid cybersecurity risk
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.Read Full Article -
NIST releases update to smart grid framework
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.Read Full ArticleMentions: NIST -
International Battery’s Utility-Scale Li-Ion Goes After Solar
"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.Read Full Article -
Opinion: EV Storage Can Ignite The 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.Read Full Article -
Opinion: Storage Empowers Consumers, Smart Grid Punishes/Rewards
[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].Read Full Article -
Schneider Buys Weather Forecaster: When to Charge & Drain Storage
[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.Read Full Article -
"Smart Transformer" for Bi-Directional Electricity Flow
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.Read Full Article -
Interview: Strategic Significance of Storage
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.Read Full Article -
Not very visible smart grid projects
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.Read Full Article -
Rome Welcomes Toshiba for EV Charging Storage
Read Full ArticleItaly 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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CODA Automotive to Become a Grid Storage Company
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 divisionRead Full ArticleMentions: CODA -
Maui Smart Grid Pilot Includes Community Storage
Read Full ArticleIn 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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Analysis: Smart grids swell Li-ion battery demand 80 fold
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.Read Full Article -
Duke Energy in China
Duke Energy is in China this week exploring commercial opportunities, undoubtedly trying to find ways to monetize Duke’s expertise in power technology.Read Full Article -
ABB Favors Distributed Storage for Swedish Project
Read Full ArticleABB'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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Report: Advanced Smart Grid: Edge Power Driving Sustainability
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.Read Full Article -
Military's Storage and Smart Grid Plans Benefit All
Read Full ArticleCertainly there are a number of civilian or community-based microgrids under way too – but perhaps not with the urgency that is behind the military's microgrid maneuvers. For instance, in recent weeks alone: … ZBB Energy Corp. won a Navy contract to provide a 1000kWH energy storage system for use in a microgrid application at the San Nicolas Island Naval Facility off the California coast.
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