EU approves Siemens-AES energy storage joint venture

Oct 11, 2017 Priyanka Shrestha Markets & Finance 0

A joint venture between German engineering firm Siemens and US energy company AES to serve the energy storage market has been approved by the EU Commission. Based in Washington, Fluence Energy...

Microsoft-GE ink wind, energy storage deal

Oct 10, 2017 Priyanka Shrestha Infrastructure & Generation, Low Carbon 0

Microsoft has announced plans to buy all the power from a new wind farm in Ireland. It has inked a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with GE to buy electricity from its new 37MW Tullahennel...

Ofgem proposes rule changes for energy storage

Oct 03, 2017 Priyanka Shrestha Policy & Legislation, Top Stories 0

Ofgem is proposing changes to how energy storage is licensed and classified. It believes storage should be treated as a form of generation and therefore plans to modify the existing generation...

World record breaking journey for electric bus

Sep 22, 2017 Priyanka Shrestha Daily Fact Film, Low Carbon, Top Stories 0

  An electric bus has broken a world record by travelling more than 1,000 miles on a single charge in the US. The feat was achieved on 4th September when Proterra’s Catalyst E2 travelled 1,101.2...

Centrica completes battery storage unit for council

Sep 19, 2017 Jonny Bairstow Industry Round-up, Low Carbon 0

Centrica has finished installing a battery storage scheme for Gateshead Council. The 3MW battery project has been designed to store and release energy for the District Energy Centre, which uses a...

EDF tests role of flywheel storage on power grid

Sep 12, 2017 Jonny Bairstow Low Carbon 0

EDF has installed an innovative flywheel energy storage system at one of its test sites in France. The energy supplier aims to see if STORNETIC’s DuraStor device can face the demands of a modern...

US firm granted $1m to ramp up battery production

Sep 07, 2017 Priyanka Shrestha Markets & Finance 0

A US company has been awarded $1 million (£0.77m) to help commercialise its battery technology. Saratoga Energy’s process for synthesising graphite from carbon dioxide is said to transform...

E.ON breaks ground on Texas energy storage project

Sep 06, 2017 Priyanka Shrestha Infrastructure & Generation 0

E.ON has started building its energy storage project in US. The Texas Waves project is being built on the sites of the pre-existing Pyron and Inadale wind farms in West Texas. The energy firm says...

From the archive – Can frozen air help store energy?

Aug 24, 2017 george marshall From the ELN Archives 0

Today we look back to 2012 when ELN looked into using frozen air to help store energy

Green light for largest solar thermal project in South Australia

Aug 23, 2017 Priyanka Shrestha Infrastructure & Generation, Latest Videos, Daily Fact Film, Top Stories 0

  The South Australian Government has given the green light to build what is claimed will be the world’s largest solar thermal project. The 150MW Aurora Solar Energy Project, which will be built...