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NY to invest in BESS incentives for Long Island

New York State has announced a $55 million investment plan to deploy battery energy storage systems on Long Island, including commercial and residential projects.

Governor Andrew Cuomo (pictured) said the programme would be launched with an initial rollout of nearly $15m in incentives from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority.

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NEC unveils ‘Switzerland’s largest’ battery storage system

Massachusetts-based NEC Energy Solutions has installed an 18MW/7.5MW battery energy storage system in Switzerland to provide primary frequency reserve.

NEC said its lithium-ion ‘grid storage solutions’ system is the country’s biggest such facility. The system also comprises NEC’s Aeros energy response operating system platform and an AC/DC power conversion system.

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Battery system coupled with wind farm to aid research

A new lithium-ion battery energy storage facility connected to a wind farm in northern Germany has started operations as part of a research programme.

The BESS, connected to the Curslack wind farm, comprises 24 second life batteries originating from BMW electric vehicles.

The facility provides 720 kilowatts of output and 792 kilowatt-hours of storage capacity and is integrated with five wind turbines to “enable practical research to be conducted into the possibilities for the system integration of renewable energies”.

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ADB loan for combined energy storage in Mongolia

ADB Country Director for Mongolia Ms. Yolanda Fernandez Lommen (seated, left) with Minister of Finance Mr. Khurelbaatar Chimed (seated, right) during the signing of the projects

The Mongolian government has signed loan agreements with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) worth a total of US$85.6 million, part of which will be used to deploy batteries in developing the country’s first distributed renewable energy system.

The $40m ADB renewable energy loan will be supplemented by $14.6m from the Strategic Climate Fund and $6m from the Japan Fund for the Joint Crediting Mechanism; Mongolia’s government will contribute $5.6m to the project.

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Arlington Energy to invest £200m in UK storage

UK clean energy investment company Arlington Energy has secured an initial £200 million funding line to build “a significant portfolio” of battery storage and gas peaking units in the UK.”

Arlington said it has access to more than 1 gigawatt of potential assets, at sites ranging from 5-50 megawatts— which it plans to develop and construct over the next three years.

The company said it intends to retain ownership of the entire portfolio for the duration of the units’ lifetimes.

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BYD initiates energy storage in Poland

Chinese batteries and automotive manufacturer, BYD, has started operating its first energy storage project in the Polish market— a system that it was “actively invited” to supply.

The 1.26 megawatt / 2.52 megawatt-hour lithium-ion system, operated in partnership with Polish firm ML Systems, will be coupled with a 1MW solar PV power plant— also produced and sold by Shenzhen-based BYD— to enable peak shaving and to create a more balanced network.

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Victoria readies for launch of first utility-scale BESS

The first utility-scale battery energy storage system in the Australian state of Victoria has entered the final phase of testing in preparation to start relieving pressure on the regional grid ahead of summer.

The 30-megawatt-hour lithium-ion BESS, funded by the Victorian government and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (Arena), was inaugurated in Ballarat by state energy minister Lily D’Ambrosio (pictured centre).

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Southern deploys Tesla batteries in Florida pilot

Atlanta-based gas and electric utility Southern Company and its Gulf Power subsidiary has launched a two-year battery storage research project in in Pensacola, Florida.

The McCrary Battery Energy Storage Demonstration project will test and evaluate a 250 kW/1 MWh Tesla Powerpack lithium-ion industrial energy storage system, which shares the same battery chemistry used in electric vehicles and consumer electronics.

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Philippines powers up renewable energy

Philippines’ Department of Energy (DoE) has announced seven renewable power projects totaling 562MW, with a 30MW battery energy storage system in Negros Occidental, in the west of the island grouping. The proposal for the battery has been put forward by Silay Global Energy Solutions.

The seven projects consist of three wind farms and four large-scale solar power projects which will allow the DoE to determine if the future plant generation can be absorbed by the power grid.

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BESS market set to grow tenfold

The global battery energy storage system market (BESS) is expected to grow by almost ten times by 2020, according to a GlobalData report.

The sector is predicted to grow from 1.5GW in 2015 to 14GW. The main driver of the growth will be the increased share of renewable energy in the power sector and lower production costs in battery systems.

Many global BESS projects are expected to start in the near future as more wind and solar sources are being merged into power grids increasing the need for storage systems like CAES and flywheels that use electro-mechanical technology and batteries and super-capacitors based on electro-chemical technology, and pumped hydorelectric storage (PHS).

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