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Energy Storage News - September 18th, 2020
This week’s TOP 5 talks about Hawaiian Electric's multiple storage projects approval request, construction of two 100 MW batteries in Texas by Broad Reach Power, endorsement of a large solar-plus-storage project in California by 8minute Solar Energy, plans for procuring 513 MW of battery storage in South Africa and Orsted's battery fire incident in the UK.
Read moreEnergy Storage News - September 11th, 2020
This week’s TOP 5 talks about Neoen's 50 MW battery project in Australia, announcement of a 40 MW storage project by a local authority in the UK, partnership between Fluence and Siemens to supply a 15 MW battery in the Azores archipelago, opening of a renewable tender process in Queensland and the plans for the deployment of a 4.8 MW battery system in the Cook Islands.
Read moreEnergy Storage News - September 4th, 2020
This week’s TOP 5 talks about South Africa's big tender for new generation capacity, completion of the 50-MW extension of Australia's Hornsdale Power Reserve, go-live of a hybrid project combining battery and flywheel storage in the Netherlands, Group14's 4-million USD grant for winning the Energy Storage Grand Challenge and start of the construction of a 20 MW battery owned by the New York Power Authority.
Read moreReal-Time Control Based on a CAN-Bus of Hybrid Electrical Systems - September, 1st 2020
Discover the full article by Dr Kréhi Serge Agbli, Mr. Mickaël Hilairet and Frédéric Gustin, released on MDPI website. Power management of a one-converter parallel structure with battery and supercapacitor is addressed in this paper. The controller is implemented on a DSP from a Microchip and uses a Controller Area Network (CAN) bus communication for data exchange. However, the low data transmission rate of the CAN bus data impacts the performances of regular power management strategies. This paper details an initial strategy with a charge sustaining mode for an application coupling a battery with supercapacitors, in which low performances have been witnessed due to the high sampling time of the CAN bus data. Therefore, a new strategy is proposed to tackle the sample time issue based on a depleting mode. Simulation and experimental results with a dsPIC33EP512MU810 DSP based on a 10 kW hybrid system proves the feasibility of the proposed approach.
Read moreEnergy Storage News - August 28th, 2020
This week’s TOP 5 talks about Portugal's solar auction results, construction of the Chisholm Grid 100 MW battery in Texas, announcement of a 30-MW storage project pipeline by US utility Duke Energy, plans for a 10-MWh battery system in Brazil and selection of GE as a supplier for a 25 MW battery in the UK.
Read morePredicting the energy storage tech of the future
A panel moderated by Clean Horizon head of market analysis Corentin Baschet featured Dr Billy Wu, energy technologies and systems expert and senior lecturer at Imperial College, a London University, alongside Matt Allen, CEO and co-founder of UK-based project developer Pivot Power and Jim Stover, who is chief marketing officer at VRB Energy, a vanadium flow battery manufacturer based in North America with a subsidiary company in China.
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