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BYD Earns Contract for “World’s Largest Grid-Scale Battery Storage Projects” in Saudi Arabia

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Grid-scale energy storage is all the rage. Battery costs have come down tremendously in the past decade, and that has enabled large-scale battery storage projects to help the grid balance out supply and demand. This is also particularly useful for integrating low-cost but intermittent renewable energy projects — terawatts worth … [continued]

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U.S. DOE Announces $584.5 Million Loan Guarantee to Subsidiaries of Convergent Energy and Power Inc. to Build Solar PV and Energy Storage in Puerto Rico

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Convergent will build and operate utility-scale solar-plus-storage in Puerto Rico, improving grid resilience and reducing costs for ratepayers. The U.S. Department of Energy Loan Programs Office (LPO) today announced the closing of a $584.5 million ($559.4 million in principal and $25.1 million in capitalized interest) loan guarantee to subsidiaries of … [continued]

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Critical Minerals Are A Gold Rush The West Lost Sight Of

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Recently I had the opportunity to sit down with Gavin Mudd, director of the centre for critical minerals intelligence with the British Geological Survey. He’s been doing leading research with global collaborators on how much of what resources we can actually get at. Below is the first half of our … [continued]

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Councillors raise issues about Tara-area battery storage plan

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A company proposing to build a 400-megawatt battery-storage facility southeast of Tara in Bruce County updated Arran-Elderslie council recently. The project could begin charging up its batteries when demand is low and releasing power back to the electricity grid when its needed starting in the fourth quarter of 2027, Brittany Morrison, proponent Neoen’s representative, said […]

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Truck Charging: Start Small, Scale Smart

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Key Takeaways: Trucks won’t all be electric immediately, so don’t build charging for 100% electric Design charging microgrids for standardized increments of capacity Analyze all sites and design increments that are good enough Gaining the benefits of electric trucks, including significantly reduced maintenance and operations costs and increasing market share, … [continued]

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