Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 02:57:33 +0000
Electric school buses and other electric vehicles with vehicle-to-grid capability can help improve grid services for the whole community, by sharing the kilowatts stored up in their batteries.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2024 17:13:29 +0000
The long-running seminar series for India’s utility professionals through the India Smart Grid Forum closed with hydrogen. The hype glitter is starting to tarnish, but there is still a lot of substance-less shiny noise around the molecule. To that end, I stepped through the challenges and why hydrogen is virtually … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:29:09 +0000
I just wrote about how battery energy storage is massively helping to extend the usefulness of solar energy into the evening in California. It is quickly transforming the California electricity grid. Then I saw this news from ENGIE, thanks to one of our content curators. ENGIE has now reached more … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 18:25:29 +0000
As solar energy became a larger and larger portion of California electricity generation, there were rising concerns about the infamous “duck curve.” Solar energy was starting to dominate midday electricity generation, forcing curtailments even, while peak electricity demand in the evening was a tad too late for solar to be … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Press Release| Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 17:10:27 +0000
Located in Vermont, the project will help increase the amount of clean energy generation available to the New England grid and reduce peak demand. EVLO Energy Storage Inc. (EVLO), a fully integrated battery energy storage system (BESS) provider and wholly owned subsidiary of Hydro-Québec, today announced that it has completed … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 15:40:21 +0000
The advancement of smart grid technologies and renewable energy sources has transformed the automobile and power industries. We know that electric vehicle batteries produce much less carbon than their internal combustion engine vehicle counterparts. Then again, there’s concern about the amount of electricity that EVs consume — and whether that … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: US Energy Information Administration| Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 19:23:19 +0000
Electricity utilities increasingly report using batteries to move electricity from periods of low prices to periods of high prices, a strategy known as arbitrage, according to new detailed information we recently published. At the end of 2023, electricity utilities in the United States reported operating 575 batteries with a collective capacity of … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 19:29:31 +0000
A recent online discussion on gravity storage brought the usual suspects out of the woodwork. Proponents of heavy fluid pumped hydro reared their sludgy heads this time. Follow along for why this is a silly idea, as all gravity storage options that aren’t pushing water uphill turn out to be. … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 15:40:57 +0000
A recent online discussion on gravity storage brought the usual suspects out of the woodwork. Proponents of heavy fluid pumped hydro reared their sludgy heads this time. Follow along for why this is a silly idea, as all gravity storage options that aren’t pushing water uphill turn out to be. … [continued]
The post No, Heavy Fluid Pumped Hydro Isn’t Remotely Reasonable Or Economically Viable appeared first on CleanTechnica.
Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 17:50:15 +0000
In my recent article celebrating the great month that pumped hydro had, between the Loch Ness Red John facility selling to Statkraft, the UK finally settling on cap and floor for the technology and China having 365 GW of power and 4 to 8 TWh of energy storage under construction, … [continued]
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