Tag: megawatt
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U.S. Storage Market Sets Power Capacity Record with Q1 Deployments
The U.S. energy storage industry installed a record quantity of power capacity in the first quarter of 2019. The 148.8 megawatts of new grid storage capacity represented a 232% growth over Q1 2018, according to the most recent edition of the Energy Storage Monitor report created by Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables and the Energy…
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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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AMS Breaks 2 Gigawatt-Hours in Grid Services
Image Credit: Advanced Microgrid Solutions The competition for the title of”world’s largest virtual power plant” has largely been concentrated on residential solar-battery systems, like those being deployed by contenders such as Australia’s AGL or Vermont’s Green Mountain Power. But according to AMS, previously called Advanced Microgrid Solutions, the world’s biggest VPP is already up and…
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Wartsila’s New Battery Business Is Ready to Go Globe-Trotting
Greensmith burst onto the scene as an early storage integrator, capable of making disparate technologies work well with new batteries. Months after it delivered a 20-megawatt system in four months for the Aliso Canyon gas leak response, it joined the wave of U.S. storage startups getting picked up by European energy giants in 2017. Now…
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AES Completes Record-Breaking Solar and Battery Plant on Kauai
Picture Credit: AES Corporation AES Corporation established the planet ’s largest battery plant paired with solar generation Tuesday, on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. This kind of power plant produces cheap, clean energy and also uses batteries to provide power when it is most precious, instead of just as soon as the sunlight shines. That’therefore…
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Alphabet Spins Off Malta, a Long-Duration Electro-Thermal Storage Startup, With $26 Million Raise
Picture Credit: Malta Malta has graduated from incubation into long-duration grid startup, with a $26 million raise led from the billionaire-backed Breakthrough Energy Ventures. Concord New Energy and Alfa Laval joined the round. The project started lifetime in X, Alphabet’s far-out R&D lab previously known as Google X. It differs from the electrochemical storage, like…