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Total secures stake in Off Grid Electric and Powerhive The French energy giant leverages its $150 million Total Energy Ventures fund to secure stakes of no more than 15% in the two off-grid and microgrid startups.
Ian Clover
Feb 02, 2016
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Tesla’s Musk confirms Powerwall 2.0 is on the way Elon Musk has confirmed Tesla will bring out a new version of its Powerwall home energy storage battery system this summer. While “step changes” can be expected, he declined to elaborate on the new product.
pv magazine
Feb 01, 2016
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Sonnen announces partnerships for a more full energy storage offering Concurrent with the opening of the company’s new U.S. headquarters in Los Angeles, battery storage integrator Sonnen has partnered with PetersenDean, SolarWorld and Spruce Finance.
Christian Roselund
Jan 29, 2016
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Solar-plus-storage to become $8bn market by 2026, says Lux Research Addition of storage to the solar landscape seen as key to overcoming intermittency limitations and supporting continued price reductions of PV, report finds. DG market could reach 25 GW by 2026.
Ian Clover
Jan 27, 2016
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UK planning for 1 GW of storage by 2020 Large-scale storage systems in the U.K. are already competitive under certain circumstances, while small-scale decentralized energy installations with storage on site can be competitive around 2017, according to a new KPMG report. British energy storage stakeholders are changing the frame of their policy arguments, demanding from the government fair regulations.
Ilias Tsagas
Jan 21, 2016
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US DOE: Austin Energy biggest winner under SHINES storage program Austin Energy has emerged as the biggest winner under the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) latest funding round, which has seen US$18 million awarded to six energy storage+solar projects. It will partner with the likes of Tesla, Samsung and SolarEdge to develop solar LCOEs of $0.14/kWh when combined with storage, for example.
pv magazine
Jan 20, 2016
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Mercom: Battery/storage M&A activity tops $2.4 billion in 2015 Mercom Capital Group has released its figures for battery/storage funding in 2015. While investment in the venture capital, and debt and public market financing sectors both fell, merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions saw a significant increase.
Becky Beetz
Jan 19, 2016
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Leclanché selected for 13 MW energy storage project in Canada Leclanché SA has been selected to supply a 13 MW/53 MWh energy storage system for what has been described as one of the largest Grid Ancillary Services projects in North America. The projects are scheduled to be live this Q4.
pv magazine
Jan 19, 2016
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Energy storage commercially viable, 900 MW expected in 2016 The energy storage market is shifting from R&D demonstration projects to a commercially viable market, states IHS, Inc. Q4 2015 saw a 45% increase in the global project pipeline, while 900 MW of projects are expected to be installed this year.
Becky Beetz
Jan 19, 2016