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Blathnaid O'Dea pv magazine
Blathnaid O'Dea pv magazine

Blathnaid O’Dea

Blathnaid is Features Editor with pv magazine Global. Prior to joining the team in 2024, she specialized in writing feature-length articles about STEM careers. She also covered news, including some of Ireland’s renewable energy announcements over the past few years.

Articles written by Blathnaid O’Dea

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Battery energy storage system with containers and a tree and sky in the background.
Finance
1 GWh Texas battery portfolio secures financing Four Texas battery energy storage (BESS) projects with a combined capacity of 730 MW / 1,049 MWh have secured $315.7 million in financing with a view to becoming operational later this year.
Blathnaid O’Dea
Sep 06, 2024
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The entrance to Enerpoly's new megafactory facility in Sweden.
Manufacturing
Enerpoly opens milestone zinc-ion battery megafactory in Sweden Sweden’s Enerpoly has ambitious plans to make its 6,500m2 plant the center of global and European zinc-ion battery innovation. It is aiming for final capacity of 100 MWh annually by 2026.
Blathnaid O’Dea
Sep 04, 2024
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Battery and energy storage researchers standing together in a row in a room with a large screen in the center showing people.
R&D
Indian initiative to commercialize new zinc-ion battery technologies Indian mining company Hindustan Zinc will collaborate with Bangalore-based Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) to develop new zinc alloys for use as anodes in zinc-ion batteries and electrolytes for use in rechargeable batteries.
Blathnaid O’Dea
Aug 23, 2024
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Pieces of zinc in its raw form on a black background.
Markets
Zinc bateries to be Hindustan Zinc’s strategic focus The company, which is the second largest global integrated zinc producer, has access to vast domestic zinc reserves, and intends to explore new avenues of zinc applications in batteries.
Blathnaid O’Dea
Aug 02, 2024
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Battery energy storage systems situated in a clearing of a wooded area with green trees and a small pathway.
Projects & Applications
Canada pumps CAD117 million into trio of Nova Scotia battery storage projects The three battery energy storage systems (BESS) sites each have a power output of 50 MW and storage capacity of 200 MWh. Canada is also getting a new battery innovation center at Dalhousie University.
Blathnaid O’Dea
Aug 01, 2024
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Aerial view of a large solar and battery storage plant set against a dry, arid landscape with mountains and sky visible behind the solar panels and batteries.
Finance
Enlight secures financing for 1.2 GWh of collocated battery storage in New Mexico Israeli independent power producer Enlight has closed financing for the energy storage part of its planned Atrisco solar and storage project, to be located outside Albuquerque, New Mexico. Atrisco combines 1.2 GWh of battery storage with 364 MW of solar generation capacity.
Blathnaid O’Dea
Aug 01, 2024
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Solar panels in the Philippines surrounded by green grass in a field.
Tenders
Philippines announces renewables, energy storage auction The Philippines’ Department of Energy (DOE) has said that energy storage and maximizing the country’s existing renewable energy infrastructure will be a major theme for its next green energy auction. GEA-4 will take place in the final quarter of 2024.
Blathnaid O’Dea
Jul 30, 2024
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Tenders
Battery storage deployment in Canada kicks into gear The deployment of battery energy storage systems (BESS) in Canada is picking up the pace, with the announcement of a 705 MWh battery storage system delivery to Nova Scotia by Canadian Solar's e-STORAGE and various other projects in provinces across the country. However, this surge cannot come quickly enough says Energy Storage Canada.
Blathnaid O’Dea, Marija Maisch
Jul 08, 2024
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R&D
Paper byproduct lignin’s potential for capacitors, sodium-ion batteries A research team at Germany’s Friedrich Schiller University of Jena have identified a potential way to make energy storage systems more sustainable using lignin waste from the timber industry.
Blathnaid O’Dea
Jul 05, 2024

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