Policy in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts favouring the use of clean energy during peak times has brought behind-the-meter energy storage company Stem Inc into the state’s utility-scale solar-plus-storage market. The commercial and industrial (C&I) system provider has partnered with private equity firm Syncarpha Capital Partnership to develop 28.2MWh of large-scale energy storage projects, co-located with […]
Huge battery system to export cheap solar from South Australia approved
Satellite map of proposed project site. Image: EPS Energy / esri South Australia’s Planning Council gave approval just before the end of last month to a 500MW (AC) solar farm project, co-located with 250MW / 1,000MWh of battery energy storage from renewables developer EPS Energy. EPS Energy, based in Australia, has three massive solar-plus-storage projects […]
Governor gives behind-the-meter storage a US$55m boost on New York’s Long Island
Funding is to be administered from NYSERDA’s commercial and residential programmes respectively, with the initiative also supporting – and supported by – utility PSEG-LI. Customers in Long Island, New York, that install commercial energy storage systems of up to 5MW and residential solar-plus-storage will be eligible for incentive payments of US$250 per kWh of storage […]
Two more US utilities make major gas, solar and storage plans
Utilities in New Mexico and Tennessee have both released plans for new solar, storage and gas infrastructure. The New Mexico plan is more immediate as it is linked to the closure of the San Juan coal power station in June 2022. The utility PNM has asked the state’s regulator to approve “the securitization of the […]
Georgia Power wants to own and operate 80MW of battery ESS to ‘maximise value of renewables’
Utility Georgia Power wants to own and operate 80MW of battery energy storage systems in its service area, building on the state’s early recent steps to investigate the value of storage both in front of and behind the electricity meter. Georgia Power has just made a request to raise residential rates in order to invest […]
Solar Plus Storage to Save California School District $2.2 Million
Pleasanton Unified School District signed a 25-year power purchase agreement financed by Duke Energy Renewables for REC Solar onsite solar plus storage. The investment in solar carports and battery energy storage at one high school is projected to save the district more than $2.2 million over the lifetime of the PPA. Located about 40 miles […]
Baby steps for EOS’ zinc batteries in US ahead of 40MWh project, company targets UK for 2020
EOS Energy Storage, makers of a novel zinc hybrid cathode battery technology, has supplied two 120kWh systems in the US and struck a partnership to investigate the application of the technology in the UK. The company has touted the low cost potential of the aqueous, zinc devices for some time, with Energy-Storage.news reporting a claim […]
Is There a Place for Europe in the Growing Utility Solar-Plus-Storage Market?
The short answer is yes, but it will take further growth of subsidy-free solar projects to get there. The global front-of-the-meter (FTM) solar-plus-storage market took off in 2018, with more than 6 times as many new solar-paired storage megawatts deployed than in the previous year. 2019 is also forecasted to be a strong year for […]
Solar-Plus-Storage is Critical to Microgrid Development
This is the latest in a series of articles on ideas that emerged from Microgrid 2019, held in San Diego May 14-16. Here we focus on a discussion about energy storage from the panel “Beyond Islanding: The Well-Connected Microgrid.” Microgrids increasingly depend on solar-plus-storage — or the ability to generate solar power on site and […]
IEEFA: Solar-plus-storage undermines coal economics by ‘hundreds of millions’ of dollars
Tumbling solar-plus-storage costs could see the hybrid technology become a money saver for US firms grappling with expensive legacy coal portfolios, according to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). Utilities shutting down coal units ahead of their end-of-life point and replacing them with renewables, stand to reap savings in the “hundreds of […]