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World Bank unveils energy storage investment drive
16 October, 2018
he World Bank is to invest $1 billion in a new programme to accelerate investment in battery storage for energy systems in developing and middle-income countries.

Detangling decarbonisation
03 September, 2018
Clearer thinking is needed to meet decarbonisation goals in the heating sector and electrification is the way forward rather than hydrogen. Kevin Stickney, Erda Energy.

RedT signs 700 MWh deal
07 August, 2018
Energy storage specialist has signed an exclusive deal with Energy System Management GmbH to deliver over 700 MWh of energy storage projects in Germany.

Liquid-air start-up: a milestone for long-duration storage
19 July, 2018
The world’s first grid-scale liquid-air energy storage (LAES) plant, Highview Power’s 5MW/15MWh Pilsworth facility, is finally in operation, with a switch-on ceremony held on 5 June (about three years later than originally planned).

Energiewende, where do we go from here?
18 July, 2018
In Energiewende 2030 – The Big Picture, Agora Energiewende* sets out its vision of how the world’s fourth largest economy can achieve its climate goals for 2030 (reduction of greenhouse gases by 55% compared with 1990) while also ensuring supply security and keeping energy affordable both for consumers and industry. It suggests specific energy policy targets for affordability, supply security, renewable energy sources and efficiency for all three energy sectors – electricity, heat and transport.

Another milestone for Kiel
16 May, 2018
The 20th and final gas engine has been delivered to the site of the 190 MWe/192 MWt K.I.E.L. (Kiel’s intelligente Energie-Lösung) coastal power plant, billed as “one of the most modern and flexible gas-engine-based combined heat and power (CHP) plants in Europe.” At an event to mark this milestone, held on 7 March, representatives of Stadtwerke Kiel, Kraftanlagen München GmbH and GE unveiled one of the twenty GE Jenbacher J920 FleXtra gas engines, another step towards securing the district heating supply in Kiel after the coal-fired power plant is decommissioned on 31 March 2019.

First New Zealand NOJA recloser upgrade commissioned
15 May, 2018
NOJA Power, which specialises in developing new products to solve challenges presented by modern distribution systems, has completed and successfully commissioned the first installation in New Zealand of a its RC10-200 Upgrade Kit. The installation is to be found in a valley overlooking a bay on the North Island of the country (see photo). The RC10-200 system is a conversion upgrade path for NOJA Power’s Legacy RC01 controlled OSM Recloser product, providing utilities with the ability to deploy a comprehensive suite of protection functionality whilst maintaining use of their primary switchgear investment.

Possibly the largest virtual power plant in the world
08 February, 2018
The South Australian government plans to roll out solar panels and Tesla batteries to at least 50 000 homes to form what it believes will be the world’s largest virtual power plant.

A new assessment of power transformer reliability
03 February, 2018
Data from a comprehensive survey of failure assessments collected by CIGRE, the world’s leading electrical systems association, has revealed the most significant risks of power transformer failure and the principal causes of downtime.