ENERGY STORAGE NEWS June 21, 2018
Special Edition: Focusing on Grid-Scale Energy Storage
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The Grid-Scale Energy Storage Summit, set to take place next week in Charlotte, North Carolina, will bring together energy professionals to discuss how wind, solar and hydropower can work together to provide storage. | |
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Timothy Welch America’s power grid is a complex network of power plants and transformers connected by more than 450,000 miles of transmission lines. |
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Comment by Jennifer Runyon California is generating a ton of solar power-some days, more than people can use. It could power the whole state soon, except for one problem: There's no way to hold on to all that energy at night. |
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Gregory B. Poindexter Pumped-storage hydropower is the oldest energy storage technology and provides about 95% of worldwide storage capacity. |
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Gregory B. Poindexter | June 13, 2018 In the 2019 FY Budget, the office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy included a $90M request to fund a new initiative it calls "Beyond Batteries." |
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Jennifer Runyon | September 28, 2016 A proposed 300-MW pumped storage hydropower plant combined with 600-MW solar PV plant is taking shape in Chile. |
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Elizabeth Ingram "There is no technical or economic barrier to transitioning the entire world to 100 percent clean, renewable energy with a stable electric grid at low cost,..." |
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In Other Storage News: Wholesale Markets, EVs and Patents |
Renewable Energy World Editors | June 18, 2018 The California Energy Commission (CEC) has approved a grant for a community-scale microgrid that will participate in California’s wholesale electricity market. |
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Kevin Stark | June 15, 2018 Schools are letting out, and that means many yellow buses are headed to storage. |
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Renewable Energy World Editors | June 15, 2018 Two of California’s state parks have received new public charging infrastructure that offers electric vehicle owners the ability to charge up on solar power. |
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Jennifer Runyon | June 15, 2018 Multinational power company, Enel, said last month that it was expanding its partnership with InnoCentive, a 17-year old crowdsourcing company that partners |
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