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Solnet Group is launching virtual power plant services for solar. With Solnet Manager, customers earn additional revenue by participating in maintaining the electricity grid.
Storage provider Intilion and the company Purpel Energy are building four large-scale storage projects with 48 megawatt hours at locations in northern Germany. The outdoor systems each have a capacity of twelve megawatt hours - they are intended to stabilise the electricity grid in future as grid-supporting systems.
The three new large storage facilities are linked to solar parks. They shift the solar power produced to times when there is no sun.
The storage power plant will stabilise the power supply in the greater Stockholm area. It is part of a total package of 100 megawatts of storage capacity.
Europe's largest battery storage plant to date is to be built in the immediate vicinity of the Förderstedt substation near Magdeburg. The entire storage plant will have an output of 300 megawatts and a storage capacity of 600 megawatt hours. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2024.
In Japan, decentralised green power plants were combined to form virtual power plants. Using new technologies, the project partners have shown that a stable electricity grid can be realised even with volatile generators.
When many electric vehicles are charging in company car parks at the same time, it puts an enormous strain on the distribution grid. Together with BN Netze, Fraunhofer ISE has proven that it is actually an opportunity to avoid unnecessary grid expansion.
Engineering group ABB is unveiling its new bi-directional eleven-kilowatt charging station. Together with software technology from DREEV, the solution enables drivers of electric vehicles to feed surplus energy back into the electricity grid.
Macquarie’s Green Investment Group (GIG) today announced that it will make an investment in esVolta, a developer and owner of utility-scale energy storage projects across North America.
Centrica completes the Cornwall Local Energy Market (LEM), the UK’s largest trial of energy flexibility, which saw over 200 homes and businesses trading stored renewable electricity.
ABB's Vehicle-to-Grid technology will allow bi-directional charging with a new 11-kilowatt charging station.
Research from Cornwall Insight’s ‘Balancing Mechanism Report’ highlights that there are significant changes in the technology type that has been providing balancing actions to the UK's National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO), with activity from newer asset types seeing the greatest year-on-year increase.
