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Topic of the Week: Commercial storage

Intilion supplies four grid storage systems to start-up Purpel Energy

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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.

© RWE
Grid storage

RWE commissions three large battery storage facilities in the US

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The three new large storage facilities are linked to solar parks. They shift the solar power produced to times when there is no sun.

© Ads-Tec
Sweden

Ads-Tec installs large storage facility with 20 megawatts

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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.

© Eco Stor
Germany

Power storage facility with over 300 megawatts of output

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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.

© Next Kraftwerke
Virtual power plants:

Balancing out fluctuations in the Japanese electricity grid

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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.

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Fraunhofer ISE:

Charging at the workplace - no problem for the grid?

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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.

© ABB
EV charging:

Feed power back into the grid from the car

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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.

© esVolta
North America:

Green Investment Group invests in utility-scale storage developer esVolta

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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
Flexibility:

Cornwall flexible energy trials prove success

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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
V2G:

Vehicle-to-grid bi-directional EV charger

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ABB's Vehicle-to-Grid technology will allow bi-directional charging with a new 11-kilowatt charging station.

© Cornwall Insight

Batteries see 149% increase in Balancing Mechanism activity

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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.