Positive Future #833 (Feature photo – Tesla Mega Batteries – courtesy of Tesla ) Tesla is getting ready to ship an order of big batteries to Australia. It will ultimately be a connected series of batteries costing almost $62 million. This battery is only the first of a dozen big battery installations across the NSW…
Positive Future #741 (Feature photo – Older Battery Storage Power Station in California – By Ysc usc – Own work, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=64315693) Renew Economy journalist Giles Parkinson brings us the story of a pending $300 million battery in Australia to help upgrade its electrical grid. Like the earlier 100MW Tesla battery installed to…
Positive Future #605 (Feature photo – An Old Gas Peaker Plant – Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication, Jim Henderson) PV Magazine reports that New York regulators just approved the Ravenwood Development to build out 2.5 gigawatts of battery storage. Equally important is that this new project will be built were there are…
Positive Future #564 (Feature photo E-Ferry Ellen – Battery Backup Units – courtesy of RedEarth Energy Storage) The U.S. Department of Energy just released a report that indicates over 5 million commercial customers would benefit from battery storage to offset peak power costs to lower utility bills. Renewable Energy World brings us news about the…
Positive Future #556 (Feature photo – Large Battery Storage Pack – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license – Yo-Co-Man) While many of us think about being off the grid with solar and battery storage, it is battery storage that has often been a problem. Bloomberg New Energy News now projects that batteries for solar…
Positive Future #486 (Feature photo – Wind Farm – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. – Leaflet) Scottish Power is building the largest battery ever in the UK to support its wind farms. Once the first battery is completed next year, plans are to build five others. When winds are high, excess power is…
