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Rooftop Solar, Storage Project Installed In Grand Rapids’ West Side
Michigan energy provider Consumers Energy has dedicated a solar-plus-storage project located in Grand Rapids’ west side, a “vibrant and growing” area of the city,...
Shell Tech Center Demos Microgrid With PV, Storage And Natural Gas
A Black & Veatch-designed microgrid at Shell’s Technology Center in Houston is actively powering part of the campus while serving as a research tool...
Solar, Storage Plant Powers Up At Iowa’s Maharishi University of Management
Maharishi University of Management’s (MUM) new solar-plus-storage plant, designed and installed by Ideal Energy Inc., powered up in mid-December in Fairfield, Iowa.
A 1.1 MW...
Luminant Brings Large-Scale Energy Storage Online At Texas Solar Facility
Luminant, a subsidiary of Vistra Energy, has announced the completion of its Upton 2 battery storage project, located on the site of Luminant’s 180...
SEIA To Congress: Make Energy Storage Eligible For ITC
In a letter filed on Monday, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), alongside several other energy trade and advocacy organizations, is urging Congress to modify the...
BNEF Forecasts Big Things For Booming Energy Storage Market
Editor’s note: The dollar investment figure (from $1.2 trillion to $620 billion) was corrected by BNEF on Nov. 15 following their discovery of a totaling...
SolarEdge To Acquire Battery Storage Company Kokam
Israel-based SolarEdge Technologies Inc. has entered into definitive agreements to acquire a majority stake in Kokam Co. Ltd.
Headquartered in South Korea and founded in...
Solar-Plus-Storage Gets Boost In New York
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, D-N.Y., has announced that $40 million will be made available to support solar projects that integrate energy storage.
The governor says this...
New York Lays Out Plan For Accelerating Energy Storage
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, D-N.Y., has announced the release of New York’s Energy Storage Roadmap, which is designed to support the governor’s energy storage...
New Trade Association Promotes Solar, Energy Storage In Puerto Rico
The Solar and Energy Storage Association of Puerto Rico (SESA-PR) recently announced its formation with several industry partners, as well as its inaugural conference.
SESA-PR is...
Pennington, N.J., Dept. Of Public Works Adopts Solar-Plus-Storage
New Jersey utility Public Service Electric and Gas Co. (PSE&G) has announced that its solar-plus-storage project for the Borough of Pennington, N.J., Department of...
Lockheed Martin, ComEd Team Up For Chicago Microgrid With Solar, Battery Storage
Lockheed Martin has signed an agreement to supply a GridStar Lithium energy storage system to ComEd, Illinois’ largest electric utility and a unit of...
GE Appoints Leader Of Energy Storage
GE Power has tapped former AES and RES Americas executive Robert Morgan to lead its new energy storage unit.
One of Morgan’s principal roles as...
States Taking Grid Modernization Actions At ‘Astounding Rate’: Report
The N.C. Clean Energy Technology Center (NCCETC), part of the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University, has released its Q1 2018 edition of “The 50...
Colorado’s New Energy Storage Law May ‘Spark More Interest In Going Solar’
On Thursday, Gov. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., signed into law a bill concerning the rights of electric utility customers to install energy storage systems.
Commended by the Solar Energy...
UH Maui College To Be 100% Powered By Solar-Plus-Storage
The University of Hawaii (UH) has announced that its Maui College campus will soon generate 100% of its energy from on-site solar photovoltaic systems...
CALSEIA Is Now The California Solar & Storage Association
The California Solar Energy Industries Association (CALSEIA) is now the California Solar & Storage Association (CALSSA).
After 40 years, the organization will do business under this new...
Planning For A Microgrid: How Economic And Infrastructure Analysis Can Help
As the installed costs for solar PV projects have rapidly declined in recent years, more solar PV has been installed across the U.S., and...
FERC Rejects DOE’s Controversial Grid Proposal
In a move being applauded by renewable energy groups, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has terminated its consideration of the U.S. Department of...
NRDC: Grid Reliability During Cold Snap Refutes Need For Coal ‘Bailout’
Much of the country is in the grip of frigid weather, which is increasing demand for electricity (but still less than during hot summer...