Storage News: South Korea ESS

GE to Design Wind, Solar Energy Storage Project in India

Renewable Energy World Editors

March 9, 2016 | Post Your Comment

GE last week said that its energy consulting business has been chosen by wind energy firm IL&FS Energy Development to examine the feasibility of integrated wind, solar and energy storage projects at IL&FS Energy’s sites in Ramagiri, Andhra Pradesh, and Nana Layja, Gujarat, India. Full Article

Solar PV: Standardizing for Complex Intelligence Gathering in Net Export

Tom Johnson

March 8, 2016 | Post Your Comment

Renewable energy generation in the U.S., specifically wind and solar PV, have been incentivized in a variety of ways since the 1980s. One of the most effective incentives is a net-metering agreement that allows power producers to “bank” excess power. Full Article

South Korean Grid Will Soon Boast World’s Largest Energy Storage System

Jennifer Runyon

March 7, 2016 | Post Your Comment

Two massive lithium nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) oxide energy storage systems (ESSs) by Kolkam will provide frequency regulation for Korea Electric Power Corporation. Full Article

BELECTRIC Begins Production of Energy Storage for Grid Frequency Response in Germany

Renewable Energy World Editors

March 4, 2016 | Post Your Comment

U.K.-based BELECTRIC said on March 1 that it has begun volume production of its energy buffer unit (EBU) energy storage system for use in frequency regulation projects in the German transmission network this year. Full Article

Closing Africa’s Energy Gap

Teodoro de Jesus Xavier Poulson

March 3, 2016 | Post Your Comment

Despite a decade of soaring economic growth across much of sub-Saharan Africa through extractive exports and billions of dollars in inward investment, our continent is still struggling to come to terms with issues such as poverty and poor electricity grids. Full Article

Just How Democratic Are Rural Electric Cooperatives?

John Farrell

March 7, 2016 | Post Your Comment

Randy Wilson knew you had to start somewhere.
Knocking on doors and hanging around retail store parking lots, he and volunteers for the citizen group Kentuckians for the Commonwealth collected signatures. Full Article

PV in Transition: Distributed Energy Storage and Distributed Power Quality Control

Dr. James Wolter

March 4, 2016 | Post Your Comment

We are seeing increasing interest and public exposure to the concept of distributed energy storage (DES). This new emphasis on how/where energy storage is deployed has been seen in new products offered Full Article