German lithium BESS firm Tesvolt has been selected as the large commercial energy storage systems provider by north German utility Wemag.
Wemag has already started distributing Tesvolt’s systems across the country under the partnership, Tesvolt said.
US-based multinational Fluence is partnering with UK Power Reserve to commission the first phase of a 120-megawatt portfolio of battery storage facilities in the UK.
UK Power Reserve said the agreement with Fluence— a Siemens and AES company— “represents the single largest energy storage portfolio transaction with one technology provider announced in the UK to date”.
A 25kW (100kWh) V-KOR vanadium battery has been installed in Western Australia as part of a trial micro grid energy storage project backed by a South Korean-Australian partnership.
Perth-based Protean Energy said the battery installation, at the site of an industrial manufacturer in Perth, will be isolated from the main electrical grid and used in combination with a 21-kilowatt solar photovoltaic system and a 21kW diesel generator.
Nevada and California have announced moves to expand battery energy storage facilities across the two states.
In Nevada, utility NV Energy is asking regulators to back plans to build six solar energy plants with three related BESS facilities with a combined storage capacity of 100 megawatts.
UK-based technology firm Plessey has installed a two-megawatt Tesla battery for behind-the-meter (BTM) battery storage at its flagship manufacturing and R&D site in Plymouth, England.
UK battery energy storage developer and operator Kiwi Power— whose ‘Kiwi Fruit’ hardware and software platform controls the battery— completed the project.
US-based lead-acid giant Exide Technologies has moved to tighten its grip on the motive power market by acquiring fast-charge tech pioneer Aker Wade Power Technologies.
Aker Wade designs and manufactures advanced charging systems for industrial forklifts— and the acquisition will see the firm’s chargers become part of Exide’s GNB Industrial Power battery portfolio.
China’s BYD is to supply its lithium-ion battery tech for a new 25-megawatt energy storage project for a local authority in the UK.
BYD— which has already made inroads into the UK’s BESS market— has been selected to provide the China-made battery system for the project by South Somerset District Council.
A lead-carbon battery storage system for solar power, with a cycle life “more than four times that of conventional lead technology”, has been developed by Chinese lead battery firm Baoding Fengfan and scientists.
Fengfan’s research partner the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics— part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences— said the battery has been developed to store power generated by solar and wind.
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced a $30 million shot in the arm for energy storage research.
The funding is part of a new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy programme aimed at developing “innovative technologies for long-duration energy storage on the power grid”— providing reliable electricity for between 10 and around 100 hours.
New York-based Convergent Energy+Power has acquired 40MW of flywheel projects to become “the biggest pure-play operator” of energy storage in North America.
Convergent said on 1 May it had bought the New York and Pennsylvania flywheel projects from energy investment firm Rockland Capital for an undisclosed sum.
