Today SMA announced two new power classes for its utility-scale storage product portfolio. Now available, the Sunny Central Storage 2750-EV-US for 1,500 V projects has achieved UL 62109 listing, and the Sunny Central Storage 2475-US for 1,000 V projects has achieved UL 1741 listing. Other products in the line-up, including…

Today SMA announced that 13 Sunny Central Storage inverters are being used in the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s (LADWP) Beacon Energy Storage System, a 20 MW battery storage project at the Beacon Solar Plant in the Mojave Desert. The new storage project will be owned and operated…

ROCKLIN, Calif.–Today SMA America has announced plans for its next U.S. roadshow, which will showcase the new Sunny Boy Storage-US residential solution. The tour will begin November1 and will make stops in 13 cities along the East Coast, West Coast and Texas, partnering with Authorized Distributors to host the events.…

DANBURY, Conn., May 30, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) —  FuelCell Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq:FCEL), a global leader in delivering clean, innovative and affordable fuel cell solutions for the supply, recovery and storage of energy, today announced that it was awarded  a $3.0 million contract from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) division of…

Renewable Energy Systems (RES) will utilize SMA technology for a 1 MW battery pilot project at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) National Wind Technology Center (NWTC), the nation’s premier wind energy technology research facility. Using the proven RESolve® energy storage system, the project will test…

Announcing the LVDC Conference on Sustainable Electricity Access, 22-23 May 2017, in Nairobi Geneva, Switzerland, 2017-03-30 –The IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) is stepping up efforts to bring electrical energy to the 1,3 billion people who have no access to electricity, via a disruptive technology – low voltage direct current (LVDC).…

The first significant installation of Tesla ‘Powerpack’ batteries in Europe by Camborne Energy Storage was formally opened by Baroness Neville Rolfe this morning on site in Somerset First ‘grid scale’ Tesla battery storage solution in Europe opened in Somerset Combined solar and battery installation has the capacity to provide power…

A trial of the largest grid-scale battery in Britain has proved it can potentially transform the energy grid and play a major role in the transition towards a low-carbon economy. The ‘big battery’, designed and run by UK Power Networks and based in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, stores energy when demand…

Nidec ASI and German utility STEAG have inaugurated one of the world’s largest battery energy storage system (BESS) projects today. Nidec ASI’s six large energy storage systems, with a total capacity of 90MW, are facilitating STEAG in its stabilization of Germany’s power grid. The official commissioning of the project, attended…

LEIDEN/PETTEN – The Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) has developed a new technology that increases the storage capacity of rechargeable batteries by 50 per cent. With this technology, the range of electric vehicles (EVs) can be increased, batteries in smartphones, laptops and other electronic devices will last longer,…