Renewable Energy Caribbean

Power-technology | August 24, 2020

First Solar has named one of its power plants as the world’s first licensed utility-scale solar facility to commercially deliver ancillary grid services. The US-based photovoltaic (PV) solutions provider has said its Luz del Norte facility will now deliver a range of grid services, including automatic generation control. Coordinador Eléctrico Nacional, an independent system operator (ISO) in Chile, has added the facility to its portfolio of large-scale power generators. Chile Minist...

Solar+Storage, Sustainability

Fluence | February 23, 2023

On February 22, 2023, Fluence Energy, a global leader in energy storage products, services, and cloud-based renewables and storage apps, launched Fluence Mosaic™, an innovative bidding software for grid-scale energy storage and renewable assets, in the ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas) wholesale power market. Over 350 MW of battery-based energy storage systems will commence operations with Mosaic in 2023. This announcement marks Mosaic™'s first project in ERCOT,...

Solar+Storage, Energy

Enevate Corporation | September 22, 2023

Enevate and NantG Power, two leading companies at the forefront of battery innovation, enabling high-speed charge and energy density battery technologies for electric vehicles (EVs) and other markets, have recently announced a strategic alliance for the manufacture of a next-gen battery. This strategic alliance leverages their respective expertise in cathode and anode innovations to adva...

Solar+Storage

Businesswire | August 07, 2023

Energy Vault Holdings, Inc. a leader in sustainable, grid-scale energy storage solutions, announced, along with its partners Atlas Renewable and China Tianying (CNTY), that the world’s first grid-scale EVx™ gravity energy storage system (GESS) has entered the first phases of commissioning. Located outside of Shanghai in Rudong, Jiangsu Province, China, the 25 MW/100 MWh EVx GESS is built adjacent to a wind farm and a national grid interconnection site to augment and ...