Energy innovations to follow in 2017
1. DEMAND RESPONSE Balancing the supply and demand of energy across the National Grid is a constant game of careful planning and skillful execution. Add the intermittent nature of wind, solar and tidal energy into…
Residential energy storage systems to increase 3800% by 2025
Residential energy storage has been a growing market in certain areas for a number of years. To date, though, it has been a niche product for clean energy connoisseurs that utilities have mostly ignored. Momentum…
Emergence of the Behind-the-Meter Energy Storage Market
By Jerry Melcher The market for behind-the-meter energy storage has recently been reported growing by 15 times year-over-year. This is a significant development in direction and magnitude with over 13 megawatts installed in the third…
Large scale penetration of renewables through Behind-the-Meter tightly Integrated Photovoltaic and Storage System
By Matt Kromer, Sidharth Choudhary, Christof Wittwer, Felix Braam and Robert Kohrs A combination of the rapid growth of distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) generation in Germany, a changing regulatory regime that has limited price supports…
Energy Storage for Demand Response Program
The Glasgow Electric Plant Board is installing Sunverge Energy’s smart energy storage devices as part of the utility’s effort to significantly reduce emissions during times of peak demand for its customers in southern Kentucky. The…
Battery storage may be slowed down by one major flaw
Battery storage for renewable energy is an important technology — but it may not yet be a viable technology. A pilot project to test integrated rooftop solar into the grid through battery storage found the…
Telecom providers using renewables, energy storage to protect infrastructure from power outages
As the telecommunications network has grown, it has become a major consumer of electric power. Distributed generation (DG) is a key tool that network providers can now use to reduce their energy costs. At the…
Turning to battery storage to avoid transmission investment
Dive Brief: Convergent Energy + Power has installed a 3 MWh bank of batteries in Boothbay, Maine, in an effort to help alleviate the region’s overloaded transmission system without having to construct new power lines….
