New battery plants connected to Portugal’s transmission grid, or rated at 45 MW or more, must provide grid-forming capability and synthetic inertia under a new regulatory ordinance. Plants of 500 kW or more must also switch automatically from charging to…
Like many a nerd, I have a certain fascination with locks. This originates in reading the memoir Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman as a teenager, in which Richard Feynman recounts picking locks and cracking combinations while at his day job…
Japanese major Toshiba is pairing a 2 MW / 667 kWh high-power SCiB battery with a 2 MW / 15.33 MWh capacity-type system at a substation microgrid in Mongolia. In an announcement, Toshia said it had begun manufacturing the power-type…
Heron Power and NiSource have separately announced US data centre-focused deals involving battery energy storage systems (BESS) in recent days.
Adding a 5 kWh battery to a typical 3 kW household rooftop solar system in India would cut the electricity exports to the grid during the day by 85% to 90%, but under the current net metering regime the household…
Australian battery energy storage systems (BESS) developer and operator Akaysha Energy announced that it secured a A$1.75 billion (USD$1.23 billion), financing facility to refinance existing debt across four battery storage projects in Australia, supporting the company’s next phase of large-scale…
BESS industry experts note that rising complexity in BESS software is driving calls for industry-wide interoperability and data standards.
Trina Storage, the battery energy storage business of China’s Trinasolar, has been selected to supply battery storage systems for the 50 MW/196 MWh AEJ Nozu project in Oita Prefecture, Japan. The company announced the contract on October 14, with project…
Greenhouse Gas (GHG) reporting framework provider GHG Protocol provided an update on its progress to revise its standard for reporting of Scope 2 emissions, indicating that it plans to delay the mandatory application of its stricter rules requiring companies to…
Samsung SDI has signed a deal to supply 1 GWh of nickel cobalt aluminum (NCA) battery storage to a single US customer, with all cells and modules to be manufactured in the United States. Under the agreement with utility and…