Tag: grid
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Big money flows into long-duration energy storage
Could the Holy Grail of a zero emission grid finally be within reach? Long-duration energy storage – defined as a system that can store energy for more than 10 hours – is often called the Holy Grail of clean energy. It is the linchpin technology that will allow the economy to truly run off intermittent…
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IS THERE ENOUGH JUICE? Chris Harris talks EVs with Graeme Cooper from the National Grid | Top Gear
Tesla. Honda E. BMW i3. Peugeot e-208. The electric cars continue coming, and it’s fair to say there are many, many questions about the practicalities of all-electric motoring. And inside this half hour meeting with Graeme Cooper from the National Grid, you will find many, many answers. Subscribe to Top Gear for additional videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToTopGear…
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Grid Giants Contend for Dominance at the Distributed Edge [GTM Squared]
SAN ANTONIO — The power grid company is more about integrating renewable energy and distributed energy sources at scale. Ask any grid seller at DistribuTech, the nation ’s annual utility industry trade show. Just like years past, this year’s DistribuTech conference featured a dizzying variety of technology to monitor, manage and orchestrate electricity that’s progressively…
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US Microgrid Market Slowed in 2019. PG&E Could Singlehandedly Reverse the Trend
The burgeoning U.S. microgrid sector is set to install less controllable capability this year than it did last year. But that drawback may establish a temporary blip, especially if a new attempt to back up the beleagured Northern California grid comes into fruition. The U.S. microgrid economy established a record with 666 megawatts of potential…
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What a Year! 10 Stories That Propelled Energy Storage in 2019
For too long, the rhetoric around what storage can do for the grid vastly outweighed the actual doing. This year, the industry closed that gap more than ever before. Exceedingly few batteries actually live up to the vision of “storing clean power for when the sun isn’t shining.” Batteries perform miniscule adjustments to grid frequency,…
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3 Trends That Shaped the Grid Edge in 2019
It isn&; rsquo;t simple to transform rsquo & into a century;s value of electricity infrastructure in the ground up, particularly in the face of firestorms. In return in 2019’s most important developments about the grid border — GTM's term for the port of the traditional utility enterprise with rooftop solar panels, behind-the-meter batteries, plug-in electric…
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Alternative Energy: Get 1500 Watts Of AC From Solar
Interested in alternative energy resources? Our electricity expert Robert Brenner will explain how you are able to get 1500 watts of AC power. RELATED: Solar Power | Innovative Use Of Rooftop Real Estate Alternative Energy Solutions | Emergency Power Backup (Based on the book: Power Out! How to Prepare for and Survive a Grid Collapse…
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Eversource Wants to Back Up an Entire Rural Town With Batteries Large and Small
New England utility Eversource wants to deploy energy storage to rear an outage-prone New Hampshire city, while saving customers money. The 18,070 inhabitants of Westmoreland rely upon a single radial power line to provide electricity during the forested, urban environment. Ice storms and heavy snowfall often knock that line down, making the area an outlier…
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Tesla Installs 7 Megawatt-Hour Battery for Emergency Power at a Japanese Railway
Tesla just installed its biggest energy storage project in Asia to date — and deploying the hardware required just two days. (Here’s a time lapse of this construct on Instagram.) According to Tesla, the 7 megawatt-hour installment in Osaka, Japan is meant to offer emergency backup power for a Kintetsu train line, with enough power…
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Oil Supermajor Shell Acquires Sonnen for Home Battery Expansion
Picture Credit: Shutterstock.com Shell will obtain German startup sonnen, staking a claim to the home energy storage market and further enlarging its ever-increasing footprint from the energy industry. Sonnen distinguished itself at the first home-storage market, with thousands of units deployed across Germany, and a notable presence elsewhere in Europe, the U.S. and Australia. Besides…