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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Interconnection Innovation e-Xchange (i2X) has released a new roadmap that could lead to shorter timelines and better outcomes for connecting clean energy sources to the distribution and subtransmission grids. The Roadmap for distributed interconnection of energy sources also sets ambitious goals and strategies to improve interconnection processes and maintain the reliability of the electricity grid. DOE also announced $16 million in upcoming funding to support stakeholder engagement and technical assistance in adopting interconnection strategies on the distribution and transmission grids. Additionally, DOE and the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation announced $2.1 million for…
The Chinese inverter said its new inverters have an MPPT current of up to 54 A and support a DC/AC ratio of more than 150%. The new products also have a maximum efficiency of 98.8% and a European efficiency of 98.3%. January 16, 2025 Emiliano Bellini The S6-GC3P150K07-NV-ND inverter . Image: pv magazine Solis launched new inverters for commercial and industrial (C&I) applications at the World Future Energy Summit (WFES) exhibition in Abu Dhabi this week. “The 150 kW system features 7 MPPTs and has a fuseless design,” said the company’s sales manager, Michel Abi Younes. pv magazine. “With this…
Envirostream Australia, a subsidiary of Livium, has signed an exclusive recycling agreement with Hithium Energy to recycle lithium-ion batteries supplied by Hithium to Lightsource bp’s Wolooga solar farm in Queensland, Australia. January 16, 2025 Ev Foley By pv magazine Australia based in Melbourne battery recycling solutions company Envirostream Australia has signed an exclusive agreement with China-based Hithium Energy to recycle lithium-ion batteries supplied by Hithium to Lightsource bp’s Woolooga solar farm, 193 km northwest of Brisbane, Queensland. In December 2024, Hithium Energy said it would supply the 224 MW Wolooga project with 128 units 5 MWh battery energy storage system…
The new magnetocaloric heat pump, developed by the US Ames National Laboratory, uses gadolinium as a working medium and is said to match current vapor compression heat pumps in terms of weight, cost and performance. The system is based on an active magnetic regenerator with a packed particle bed, a magnetic source consisting of permanent magnets and high permeability magnetic steel. January 16, 2025 Emiliano Bellini Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames National Laboratory have built a prototype magnetocaloric heat pump (MCHP) that reportedly matches current vapor compression heat pumps in weight, cost and performance. MCHPs use the…
K2 Systems, a solar mounting system solutions provider, has integrated K2 Quote directly the Aurora platform. This will let users design their racking systems entirely within Aurora, generating a bill of materials (BOM) without switching applications. Credit: K2 Systems By enabling permissions on the Aurora platform, users can access K2 Quote through Design Mode, choose their preferred racking equipment and combine both racking and system details into a single, unified BOM, streamlining the entire design and ordering process. “We are excited about this partnership and are committed to making the design-to-permit process more efficient for our customers by integrating Aurora’s…
Unlocking the potential of lithium-sulfur batteries Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries have become an indispensable part of society, from mobile phones and laptops to electric vehicles. While Li-ion batteries have been a great success so far, scientists worldwide are rushing to design even better batteries that go beyond Li-ion, in the shift to a more electrified world. Commercial Li-ion batteries have a lower energy density than alternative batteries and rely on relatively expensive substances, such as cobalt and nickel compounds, which are also highly dependent on vulnerable supply chains. One of the promising alternatives to Li-ion batteries are lithium-sulfur batteries (Li-S), which…
A group of scientists have developed an open-source dataset containing three years of data from Hong Kong’s largest behind-the-meter rooftop solar project. Power generation was collected at 5-minute intervals and meteorological data at 1-minute intervals. January 16, 2025 Lior Kahana Scientists from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have created a new three-year high-resolution dataset of rooftop PV generation in urban environments. The open source data includes measured data on PV energy generation and associated weather data. PV generation was collected from 60 grid-connected rooftop PV stations on the university campus, while weather data was collected from an…
Construction of the Coalburn 1 BESS project, one of three, is in full swing. Image: Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners. The three 500MW/1,000MWh BESS projects in Scotland for which Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has made final investment decisions, the largest in Europe, will go a long way in supporting the UK’s net zero ambitions. This is according to the company’s British commercial director Malcolm Paterson, who, together with VP Government Affairs Rhys Jones, spoke to our sister site this week Energy storage.news (Premium Access Article). The company last week reached the final investment decision (FID) for its Coalburn 2 and Devilla BESS…
The United Arab Emirates, Italy and Albania plan to collaborate on gigawatt-scale renewable projects in Albania and on a cross-border transmission link to supply power to Italy. January 16, 2025 Emiliano Bellini Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the WFES fair in Abu Dhabi Image: pv magazine The United Arab Emirates, Italy and Albania have signed a tripartite cooperation agreement to deploy gigawatt-scale renewable energy projects in Albania and establish a cross-border electricity transmission interconnection to Italy. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced this during the World Future Energy Summit (WFES), currently taking place in Abu Dhabi, UAE. “It outlines…
The TIA process is costly and delays or blocks local energy projects over 1 MW in size. Image: Keith Edkins via Wikimedia Commons. The UK National Energy System Operator (NESO) has put forward a proposal that would increase the transmission impact assessment (TIA) threshold from 1 MW to 5 MW. The proposal has been put forward as an urgent change in the hope that the change, CMP446: Increasing the lower threshold in England and Wales for the assessment of TIA, can be implemented before the grid connection reforms promised for this year . If approved, it could also help to…