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US adds cumulative 3.8 GW in Q3, residential battery storage hits all-time high In the third quarter of 2024, the US installed 3.8 GW of storage across all segments, 80% increase from Q3 2023.

Blathnaid O’Dea

33 minutes ago

Markets

Greece cancels third standalone battery storage auction The regulator found that there was no unified understanding among bidders regarding the rule on the maximum power limit per participant.

Marija Maisch

3 hours ago

Grid-scale

Canadian Solar switches on Phase I of Gansu standalone BESS Once completed, the standalone battery storage project in China's Gansu province will have a cumulative storage capacity of 2 GWh.

Vincent Shaw

2 hours ago

Long duration energy storage must scale 50x faster to reach net zero Long-duration energy storage (LDES) capacity should reach 1.5 TW by 2030 and up to 8 TW by 2040 to achieve global decarbonization targets, says the LDES Council. Its annual report contains ‘seven enablers’ to scale LDES, mostly hinging on awareness of the technology.

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Blathnaid O’Dea

3 hours ago

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US adds cumulative 3.8 GW in Q3, residential battery storage hits all-time high In the third quarter of 2024, the US installed 3.8 GW of storage across all segments, 80% increase from Q3 2023.

Blathnaid O’Dea

33 minutes ago

Markets

Greece cancels third standalone battery storage auction The regulator found that there was no unified understanding among bidders regarding the rule on the maximum power limit per participant.

Marija Maisch

3 hours ago

EU Battery Regulation is coming Manufacturers and suppliers of batteries for photovoltaic energy storage must meet more extensive requirements under the new EU battery regulation. Many companies are still unsure what this means for their product design, processes, and management systems. Yalcin Ölmez, head of the operational and investment risks department at German testing body TÜV SÜD, explains what companies now need to consider.

Markets

Yalcin Ölmez

Dec 12, 2024

Brazil’s Klabin and ISI developing battery anode from paper processing byproduct Pulp processing byproduct Kraft lignin could be a promising alternative to China-dominated synthetic graphite in the anodes of lithium-ion batteries.

Markets

Alessandra Neris

Dec 12, 2024

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Hithium unveiles 6.25 MWh BESS, sodium-ion battery cell, installation-free home microgrid A trifecta of cutting-edge products debuted at Hithium's second Eco Day event held in Beijing on Thursday.

Marija Maisch

4 hours ago

Markets

Alessandra Neris

Dec 12, 2024

R&D

Inlyte reports zero loss over 700 cycles for its iron-sodium battery tech The startup is targeting commercial demonstration projects in 2025 and large-scale U.S. manufacturing by early 2027.

Marija Maisch

Dec 10, 2024

New milestone for Australia’s 100 MW vanadium flow battery Project Lumina Vanadium producer Australian Vanadium’s subsidiary VSUN Energy’s vanadium flow battery Project Lumina has progressed with the appointment of service providers GenusPlus Group, Sedgman, and Austrian company CellCube.

Flow batteries

Ev Foley

Dec 10, 2024

World’s largest vanadium redox flow project completed Dalian-headquartered Rongke Power has completed the construction of the 175 MW/700 MWh vanadium flow battery project in China, growing its global fleet of utility-scale projects to more than 2 GWh.

Flow batteries

Marija Maisch

Dec 09, 2024

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Markets

US adds cumulative 3.8 GW in Q3, residential battery storage hits all-time high In the third quarter of 2024, the US installed 3.8 GW of storage across all segments, 80% increase from Q3 2023.

Blathnaid O’Dea

33 minutes ago

Grid-scale

Canadian Solar switches on Phase I of Gansu standalone BESS Once completed, the standalone battery storage project in China's Gansu province will have a cumulative storage capacity of 2 GWh.

Vincent Shaw

2 hours ago

Projects & Applications

Blathnaid O’Dea

3 hours ago

German grid company approves Sonnen home battery VPP for primary control power Baden-Württemberg's Transnet BW has followed in the footsteps of Tennet and Amprion. Sonnen has around 150 MWh of home batteries installed across Transnet's network.

Distributed

Sandra Enkhardt

55 minutes ago

Industry

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U.S. distributed energy storage provider closes $150m finance Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) provided the funding to help Convergent Energy and Power advance its energy storage and solar portfolio in North America.

Finance

Anne Fischer

5 hours ago

U.S.: Aypa secures financing for 1 GWh Arizona battery, Averon activates 600 MWh Tesla battery Aypa Power has secured $398 million for its 250 MW/1 GWh Pediment battery energy storage system (BESS) and the first phase of Arevon's 758 MWdc solar and 300 MW/1.2 GWh Tesla Megapack BESS project is operational.

Grid-scale

Max Hall

Dec 12, 2024

Markets

Alessandra Neris

Dec 12, 2024

Nofar secures long-term, fixed-price offtake deal for 209 MWh German BESS project The tolling deal is described as the first-ever long-term, fixed-price, flexibility purchase agreement for a battery energy storage system (BESS) in continental Europe.

Finance

Marija Maisch

Dec 11, 2024

Show organizer Renmad set to recognize Italy’s energy storage pioneers pv magazine Italia spoke with ATA Insight, organizer of the Renewables Mad (Renmad) Storage Italia 2025 event, which will be held in Rome in April 2025. The two-day conference will include two storage industry awards.

Finance

Lara Morandotti

Dec 11, 2024

SunRise Arabia Clean Energy Conference 2025

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