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The New England Independent System Operator says in its 2019 Regional Electricity Outlook that its challenges are to integrate greater levels of renewables onto the grid while also maintaining a robust transmission system...

A new analysis suggests that 9.2 GW of the California Independent System Operator's required 47.5 GW of "Resource Adequacy" could be met by customer-sited solar+storage. In total, it would require approximately 48 GWdc of...

The growth of battery storage in the power sector has attracted a great deal of attention in the industry and media. Much of that attention focuses on utility-scale batteries and on batteries for commercial and industrial...

A recent announcement by electric utility Arizona Public Service could mark the tipping point in the way utilities think about building resources to meet peak demand...

The Danish minister of education and research attended the official inauguration of a giant pilot facility that will use 600 degree hot stones to store energy...

Storage systems may support renewable projects, such as wind and solar, by regulating the variability of these energy sources and increasing reliability to deliver on-demand power...

NextEra Resources will build a 100MW solar farm for Entergy Arkansas, to include 30MW of battery energy storage, as Entergy seeks to build out solar capacity in the state...

The German Aerospace Center is investigating whether Germany's coal plants could be reused as energy storage assets. The research body, which has a track record in concentrated solar power development, is planning a pilot...

A new research paper concludes that hydrogen produced from renewables will become "an economic energy carrier to complement electricity and accelerate the decarbonization of industrial feedstock and heat, as well as providing...

California's biggest investor-owned utilities are expected to de-energize power lines more frequently this year to stop them from igniting fires when the weather is dry and windy...

The New York State Energy and Research Development Authority on Monday filed its energy storage implementation plan, which aims to incentivize deployments and help the state meet its 3 GW by 2030 target...

The developer of a proposed solar farm in Iowa County is planning a second solar farm in Kenosha County that could feature the first utility-scale battery storage in Wisconsin...

Energy storage enjoyed another record-breaking year of deployments in the US in 2018, while the residential segment is now "moving beyond early adopters" and into commercial viability, a report from Wood Mackenzie Power &...

While the rest of the developed world discusses the prospect of how storage will transform grids and utilities, the state government of Western Australia is getting on with it – by replacing 54 km of ageing power lines...

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Monday issued an order accepting tariff revisions proposed by ISO New England, aimed at allowing batteries and other storage technologies to more fully participate in the region's...