Strata Blazes Ahead With California Gas Peaker Replacement Battery, Taps Tesla - Greentech Media News

Another of the world’s largest battery projects is moving forward with construction in Southern California amid the coronavirus slowdown. Strata Solar will begin construction in July on its 100-megawatt/400-megawatt-hour battery plant in Ventura County, north of Los Angeles along the coast. County authorities signed off on the final approvals over Zoom, allowing the project to keep on schedule, Strata SVP of Energy Storage Joshua Rogol told Greentech Media. It should be operational by early 2021.

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California To Fight Wildfires With Microgrids And Batteries

California’s energy regulators just laid the framework for utilities to develop localized microgrids with battery storage — a move that comes in the aftermath of the state’s wildfires that have ravaged local economies and left consumers without power. Just how effective will this order be?

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Energy storage market for microgrids may exceed $40B by 2030, Guidehouse finds

Nearly 37 GW of new energy storage for microgrids capacity is expected to be installed globally over the next 10 years, generating approximately $40.1 billion in revenue, a report released Tuesday by Guidehouse Insights concludes. “Innovation in business models and financing” in energy storage systems for microgrids “are key drivers propelling the market forward, and the most successful companies are unlocking the potential of these new business and financing models to reduce the risk and upfront costs to customers,” Guidehouse Insights said in a statement.

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Texas to get 15 utility-scale battery storage sites - Houston Chronicle

Broad Reach Power, a Houston energy storage company, said it will install 15 utility-scale batteries at sites in Houston and Odessa as it seeks to store electricity when it’s cheap and sell it into wholesale power markets when prices jump. Six sites, including five in the Houston area, are expected to be operating this summer. The other batteries will be installed in the fall.

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90% Clean Grid by 2035 Is Not Just Feasible, But Cheaper, Study Says

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Panasonic and Span team up for home battery backup and energy management

Panasonic has entered into an alliance with Span to deliver a combined energy storage and residential energy management product. Span recently landed $10.2 million in venture capital to modernize and replace one of the more basic and ubiquitous pieces of home electrical hardware — the electrical panel. Span’s electrical panel will be paired with Panasonic’s EverVolt residential battery system, which comes in two sizes: 11.4 kilowatt-hours and 17.1 kilowatt-hours — depending on how many of the 55-pound battery packs are incorporated into the field-serviceable housing.

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Clearway’s solar and storage projects move Massachusetts closer to renewable energy goals - Clearway Energy Group

Two community solar projects in Massachusetts include combined 8.6 MWh of energy storage. Clearway announced the completion of Partridgeville and Wilmarth, two new community solar projects paired with energy storage. The projects reached commercial operations and completed commissioning in May. The projects will boost grid reliability and climate resiliency in the Commonwealth while also contributing to the state’s energy storage target of 1,000 MWh by the end of 2025.

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Rappahannock Electric Cooperative CEO Announces Retirement, Board Names Successor

Today, Kent D. Farmer announced his retirement as president and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of REC, effective August 1, 2020. Farmer has served as president and CEO since 2004, and has been with REC for 41 years. 

REC’s Board of Directors also announced on June 1, the selection of John D. Hewa, REC’s current vice president of corporate services and Chief Operating Officer (COO), to succeed Farmer as president and CEO. Mr. Hewa serves as the President of ESA’s Board of Directors.

“On behalf of our Board of Directors, we are pleased to announce John as our next president and CEO,” said Shipe. “Mr. Hewa is a highly respected and proven industry leader who delivers strong results. We have all seen evidence of that since he joined REC in 2017. We are confident that Mr. Hewa will lead our employees and our member-owned cooperative to achieve great success in the years to come.”

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Clean energy groups band behind target of majority renewables by 2030

U.S. clean energy industry trade groups unveiled Tuesday a collective target of reaching at least 50% renewable generation in the next decade, a tripling of the country’s current capacity. The move — announced by the CEOs of the American Wind Energy Association, the Solar Energy Industries Association, the Energy Storage Association, and the National Hydropower Association — is a bid to align the sectors’ policy agenda. That way, the industries can speak with one voice when advocating for federal and state policies to support clean energy, the CEOs said during remarks at the virtual CleanPower 2020 conference.

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US residential energy storage posts record quarter, but COVID-19 threat looms: report

Residential energy storage rose 10% in the first quarter of 2020, compared to the prior quarter, setting a new record for deployments while non-residential deployment dropped 20%, according to the latest U.S. Energy Storage Monitor report by the U.S. Energy Storage Association and Wood Mackenzie.

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