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South Korean lithium-ion battery system manufacturer Kokam has entered into a contract to supply a Tahiti utility with a 15 MW/10.4 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS). Electricité de Tahiti (EDT), a subsidiary of ENGIE, will obtain the country’s first Virtual Synchronous Generator to replace the utility’s spinning reserve diesel generators. The move works to…

Ultra-luxury electric vehicle maker Faraday Future completed a 2,270 mi. road test of its FF 91 model as the company prepares for production. The test along the historic U.S. Route 66 gathered data from real-world conditions and user behaviors, stretching from Chicago, Illinois to Santa Monica, California. “This testing journey along historic Route 66 allowed…

by Lisa Prevost, Energy News Network Connecticut regulators have finalized new rules paving the way for a major expansion of battery storage and electric vehicle charging, part of a broader effort to modernize the state’s electric grid.  Since the wide-ranging “grid mod” proceedings began in fall 2019, all but one of the 11 subject-area tracks…

We are six months away from PJM and ISO-NE filing their compliance plans for FERC Order 2222. CAISO and NYISO already filed their plans because they didn’t seek an extension. MISO and SPP compliance plans are due in April 2022. If renewable developers want to engage in RTO committees on Order 2222, now would be…

North Star Renewables has secured a $131 million loan to build a new fleet of offshore wind farm support vessels in the UK. The company will build three new Service Operations Vessels (SOVs) to be delivered to the Dogger Bank offshore wind farm on long-term contracts. Allianz Global Investors backed the loan, valued at £96…

Paul N. Edwards, Stanford University Most of America’s 107,000 gas stations can fill several cars every five or 10 minutes at multiple pumps. Not so for electric vehicle chargers – at least not yet. Today the U.S. has around 43,000 public EV charging stations, with about 106,000 outlets. Each outlet can charge only one vehicle…

Offshore wind development offers an answer to California’s reliability problem, and could greatly help the state reach its net-zero goals, according to a new report. The University of Southern California’s Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy report, California’s Offshore Wind Electricity Opportunity, states that offshore wind could provide $1 billion in resource cost savings,…

Contributed by Mike Phillips, CEO and co-founder of Sense The IPCC report on climate change has been called a “code red” for humanity, with its finding that temperatures rose more in the past 50 years than any time over the past 2000 years, and is continuing to rise more rapidly than expected. Scientists say a…

Canada’s largest municipally-owned electric utility has launched a pilot program that allows customers with distributed energy resources (DERs) to participate in an energy marketplace using blockchain technology. Alectra has launched a transactive software platform, GridExchange, to enable customers with solar panels, battery storage, and electric vehicles to participate in a marketplace. Twenty-one households in Ontario…

Broad Reach Power is on a battery buying spree. The Houston-based independent power producer – owner of 13 gigawatts of utility-scale solar and solar projects across four states – entered into an agreement with Sungrow Power Supply Co. to purchase 1,000 MW/1,200 MWh of energy storage technology to build out six standalone battery storage projects…