Battery Management Articles & Analysis

UK households are saving an average of 49% on their annual energy bills and cutting their carbon footprint by 14% as part of a trial led by smart energy specialist, geo, to assess how real-time smart meter data enables the Whole Home Optimization of energy. Funded by the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), the trial, known as Core4Grid, uses geo's Whole Home ...

By Smart Grid Observer

Integrating the growing share of renewable energy (RE) into the power grid is becoming a key challenge owing to its stochastic nature. One of the most efficient ways around this situation is to establish well-managed interconnections that allow surplus RE power to be transferred to other countries. Denmark's success dealing with RE through existing transmission interconnections with Germany, ...

By Frost & Sullivan

PMBL provide an industry leading Custom Made Batteries, Packs, Design, Assembly and Manufacture Service for UK and Global Businesses who are seeking the optimum battery solution for their new innovations and products. For over 20 years, PMBL has given an innovative, customer orientated service as a UK battery pack manufacturer and takes great pride in its ability to offer a complete service from ...

By PMBL Limited

Phaesun supports students initiative SIFE with electrification of Romani settlements in Romania Solar energy distributors Phaesun GmbH from Memmingen/Germany have accomplished the "Green Power" project in August 2011 together with the initiative "Students in Free Enterprise" (short: SIFE) launched by the University of Regensburg. The project supports the Romani population in Romania providing 30 ...

By Phaesun GmbH

ComEd is exploring new battery energy storage system (BESS) solutions that improve resiliency by limiting the impact of power outages for customers in this new technology demonstration, ComEd is evaluating the effectiveness of localized batteries to support select customers who live in Streator, Ill., Lostant, Ill., and Milledgeville, Ill. Traditional solutions to strengthen the energy grid ...

By Smart Grid Observer

This month’s final print edition of Ecos – Australia’s longest running magazine on science and sustainability – features expert commentary on the drivers of rising household electricity bills identified in the recently released eighth update to Professor Ross Garnaut’s Climate Change Review for the Australian Government. Professor Garnaut’s recommendations in ...

By CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

ChargePoint Holdings, a leading electric vehicle charging network, and Stem, a leader in AI-driven clean energy solutions and services, announced an agreement to accelerate the deployment of EV charging and battery storage solutions for highway corridor DC fast charging and other EV charging applications like fleet charging. By combining EV charging with battery storage and AI driven energy ...

By Smart Grid Observer

In the 200 years after its invention, the extraordinary battery has undergone significant evolutions to meet modern applications. These self-contained energy sources are key to our increasingly connected society, powering our communication and transportation networks. With the shift to renewable energy, a new era of electrification is on the horizon, supported in large part by the breakthrough ...

By Smart Grid Observer

By March 2021, Avista Utilities will energize a microgrid in Spokane, Washington's University District that allows buildings to share energy, which will minimize impacts on the power grid and create a local energy market. The project, known as a micro-transactive grid or MTG, will allow distributed energy resources (DER) to be traded from one building to another as needs shift, forming what ...

By Smart Grid Observer

Decentralised home storage batteries that are networked via a blockchain and integrated in the energy supply system can stabilise the power grid. The pilot project launched by transmission system operator TenneT and storage specialist sonnen in 2017 has now demonstrated this.“We’ve shown for the first time how it’s technically feasible to utilise blockchain technology so households can stabilise ...

By Smart Grid Observer

The Tennessee Valley Authority recently Monday that it is installing TVA's first owned and operated, grid-scale, battery energy storage system near an industrial complex in Vonore, Tennessee, about 35 miles southwest of Knoxville. "TVA is building the energy grid of the future," said Senior Manager Dale Harris, who leads research and development for TVA. "This pilot project will help us to ...

By Smart Grid Observer

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and the California Energy Commission today unveiled an innovative battery energy storage system pilot project to better balance power needs of the electric grid. An official ribbon-cutting ceremony for the project was held at HGST, Inc's facility in east San Jose. The Yerba Buena Battery Energy Storage System Pilot Project charges batteries when ...

By Pacific Gas and Electric Company

Energy storage installations1 around the world will multiply exponentially, from a modest 9GW/17GWh deployed as of 2018 to 1,095GW/2,850GWh by 2040, according to the latest forecast from research company BloombergNEF (BNEF).This 122-fold boom of stationary energy storage over the next two decades will require $662 billion of investment, according to BNEF estimates. It will be made possible by ...

By Smart Grid Observer

Enel X, the Enel Group business line dedicated to innovative energy services, has obtained the green light from the European Commission to develop three projects presented within the framework of the second IPCEI (Important Project of Common European Interest) created to support the European battery industry, which sees the participation of 42 European companies. Enel X projects span applications ...

By Smart Grid Observer

Enel S.p.A., through its US subsidiary EnerNOC, has announced the acquisition of California-based eMotorWerks, a leading North American supplier of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, called JuiceBox, and owner and operator of JuiceNet, an Internet of Things (IoT) platform for the smart management of EV charging and other distributed energy storage facilities. Through the JuiceNet platform, ...

By Smart Grid Observer

Thanks to a partnership between Enel X and ADR (Aeroporti di Roma, Airports of Rome), second-life batteries from electric vehicles will be integrated into a 30 MW solar park being built at Rome Fiumicino Airport and scheduled to be finished by 2024, helping to drastically reduce emissions at the airport. The project, called Pioneer- airPort sustaInability secONd lifE battEry stoRage, has been ...

By Smart Grid Observer

Novel separation techniques to recover high-value metal compounds from automotive battery packs are being explored as part of a £14 million research consortium. The AMPLiFII Project (Automated Module-to-pack Pilot Line for Industrial Innovation) has received £10 million of funding from the UK’s innovation agency Innovate UK. Led by WMG at the University of Warwick, it ...

By Axion Group

Hawaiian Electric is seeking public input on its strategy to increase rooftop solar and similar customer energy resources to the scale needed to reach the state's clean energy benchmarks. The company has filed "Customer Energy Resources for Hawaii; A Customer-First CER Strategy for a 100% Clean Energy Future" with the Public Utilities Commission. The document is available for review at Customer ...

By Smart Grid Observer

Honeywell this week announced a new flow battery technology that works with renewable generation sources such as wind and solar to meet the demand for sustainable energy storage. The new flow battery uses a safe, non-flammable electrolyte that converts chemical energy to electricity to store energy for later use while meeting the environmental, longevity and safety objectives of utilities. ...

By Smart Grid Observer

Eos Energy Storage has announced the installation and commissioning of a 250 kW | 1 MWh Eos Aurora® DC battery system at the wastewater treatment plant in the Borough of Caldwell, NJ. The batteries are a central component of Public Service Electric and Gas Company’s (PSE&G’s) on-site solar-plus-storage microgrid that will help keep the facility operating during extended power ...

By Smart Grid Observer