Energy Storage News Archives

Mobile Pay-Go Solar Leader Aims to Reach 850,000 Zambians by 2020

Published on May 14, 2022 August 10, 2017 by Andrew Burger

Local and multinational companies continue to join forces to bring emissions-free, environmentally friendly electricity to rural communities in Africa that have never had reliable access... Read more →

Schneider Electric, WWF Install Solar-Storage Mini-Grids on Diminishing Islands in India’s Threatened Sundarbans

Published on May 14, 2022 August 1, 2017 by Andrew Burger

Stretching across the Bay of Bengal from on to offshore the coasts of northeast India and Bangladesh, the Sundarbans is the world’s largest remaining mangrove... Read more →

Go Electric to Deploy $1.7 Million Advanced Battery Storage Microgrid at Tooele Army Depot in Utah

Published on May 14, 2022 July 28, 2017 by Andrew Burger

Winning a $1.7 million contract awarded by Perini Management Services, Indiana’s Go Electric is to install a 1 megawatt (MW)/1 megawatt-hour (Mwh) advanced battery-based energy... Read more →

New Tesla Gigafactory Permits Reveal Plan to Build a Microgrid Lab

Published on May 14, 2022 July 27, 2017 by Andrew Burger

Tesla continues to invest heavily to realize its new distributed, clean energy vision, the centerpieces of which are its mammoth lithium-ion battery (LiB) and solar... Read more →

Spain’s TTA Builds Five 24/7 Solar-Wind Minigrids on Ghana’s Lake Volta Islands

Published on May 14, 2022 July 26, 2017 by Andrew Burger

Ghana is turning to the construction of solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind power mini-grids in a bid to provide rural communities with modern, sustainable electricity... Read more →

Aggreko Acquires Advanced Battery Storage-Smart Microgrid Systems Pioneer Younicos for $52 Million

Published on May 14, 2022 July 4, 2017 by Andrew Burger

One of the world’s pioneering developers of advanced battery energy storage systems and smart microgrid developers, Germany’s Younicos on July 3 announced it was being... Read more →

Renewable, Hybrid Island Microgrid Projects Under Way on Aruba, US Virgin Islands

Published on May 14, 2022 June 23, 2017 by Andrew Burger

Relying on fossil fuels, primarily diesel fuel, for power generation, electricity costs on Caribbean and other island states worldwide are among the highest in the... Read more →

Enel Green Power Commissions World’s First, and Highest, 24×7 Solar-Hydrogen-Lithium Energy Storage Microgrid

Published on June 1, 2017 by Andrew Burger

Characterized by diverse geographic regions and climate zones, cities, towns and villages in Chile often are separated by difficult terrain and long distances, Sitting atop... Read more →

Microgrid 2.0 and Aging U.S. Grid Infrastructure

Published on May 11, 2017 May 8, 2017 by Andrew Burger

April’s power outages in Los Angeles (LA) and San Francisco (SF) were among the latest reminders of the degree to which societies the world over... Read more →

San Francisco, Los Angeles Outages Highlight Growing Risks, Rising Costs of Aging Power Infrastructure

Published on May 5, 2017 May 5, 2017 by Andrew Burger

San Franciscans and Los Angelenos alike suffered through major power failures in April. Given California’s national and world leading role in fostering deployment of a... Read more →