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Invenergy has begun commercial operations of a utility-scale battery storage system located in Knoxville, Iowa, developed for MidAmerican Energy. This followed a four-month construction process that culminated with the battery...

The debate over energy storage replacing gas-fired peakers has raged for years, but a new approach that shifts the terms of the argument could lead to an acceleration of storage deployments...

Integrating storage into the grid is becoming a more popular and more lucrative way to add value to PV projects as well as the electrical grid. Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables' estimates show a year-over-year growth of...

Renewable energy developer Invenergy has initiated commercial operations of a utility-scale battery storage system located in Knoxville, Iowa, for MidAmerican Energy...

Puget Sound Energy (PSE) has selected the Sunverge platform to test the integration of battery storage technology as part of its Smart Grid demonstration efforts...

S&P Global reports the cost of solar with battery backup dropped precipitously in 2018. Several tenders for solar plus storage came in at under $30 per megawatt-hour last year. Stand alone prices for installed battery storage...

As liquid air energy storage company Highview Power prepares to launch two US projects this year, an official said Thursday, the company has teamed up with engineering firm Citec to help scale its storage facilities from...

The Electric Power Research Institute has been selected to receive a $6 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office to train the next generation of electric utility workers. The award,...

AES Corporation launched the world's largest battery plant paired with solar generation Tuesday, on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. The Kauai Island Utility Cooperative is finishing up commissioning for the Lawa'i Solar and...

Canada's Innergex Renewable Energy has signed power purchase agreements with two utilities in Hawaii to supply fixed-price power from solar facilities with combined capacity of 45 MW that will be built with 180 MWh of combined...

An Edinburgh hotel is claimed to be the first in the UK to be powered by battery. The Gyle Premier Inn at Edinburgh Park has installed a five-tonne battery. It will charge from the grid in off-peak periods and power the 200-room...

Providing a stable supply of electricity is a core part of the mission of all utilities, and is demanded by the regulators who oversee them. And yet the security of U.S. electricity supply appears to be getting worse. Not...

A distribution center in Finland is installing what is being called the country's largest industrial microgrid, a system that will use 100% renewable energy coupled with energy storage...

The project is the first large energy storage facility built by EMC Lendlease, the joint venture between Energy Made Clean, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Carnegie, and Lendlease, an engineering, procurement and construction...

Sempra subsidiary PXiSE Energy Solutions plans to create a federation of microgrids to boost renewable energy in remote Australian towns under a new agreement with utility Horizon Power...