Tag: energy storage

UW Clean Energy Institute Research Update For nearly a century, the electrical grid remained essentially the same. Yet, as electricity consumers we keep asking it to do more for us. Chill or heat our homes. Help keep our drinks cold, freeze our food and dry our laundry. Charge our phones, computers and cars. Deliver us […]

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By Frances White, Originally published by PNNL RICHLAND, Wash. – Sun, wind and other renewable energy sources could make up a larger portion of the electricity America consumes if better batteries could be built to store the intermittent energy for cloudy, windless days. Now a new material could allow more utilities to store large amounts of renewable […]

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                      Avista Utilities, Snohomish PUD and Puget Sound Energy have been awarded $14.3 million in matching grants from the state’s new Clean Energy Fund to lead energy storage projects with ties to federally funded research at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Gov. Jay Inslee […]

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4/29/14 Everett, WA – Snohomish County Public Utility District (PUD) announced today that Mitsubishi International Corporation will provide the first battery deployed in the MESA-1 energy storage project. The 1MW, 500 kWh advanced battery storage system will be installed at Snohomish PUD’s Hardeson substation in Everett, WA later this year. The MESA-1 installation will be […]

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By Benjamin Romano, Xconomy A year after opening a $28.5 million factory, Seattle-based EnerG2 is looking like a textbook example of laboratory innovation in a strategically important industry generating U.S. high-tech manufacturing jobs, with an assist from Uncle Sam. Someone page Joe Biden. The company got a $21.3 million Department of Energy stimulus grant covering three-quarters of […]

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Everett, WA – Snohomish County Public Utility District (PUD), 1Energy Systems and LG Chem today announced that LG Chem will supply a 1MW, 500kWh advanced Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) as a core component of the MESA-1 energy storage system. The MESA-1 system, to be deployed at a PUD substation later this year, will be […]

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By Russ Weed, UniEnergy Technologies The Batteries Included event combined historical and technical background on batteries from Washington State University professor Grant Norton, and perspectives on the use and maturity of energy storage technologies in the utility industry from Snohomish County PUD assistant general manager Craig Collar, in the enterprise context by Microsoft senior research […]

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Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) tapped a member of his staff to coordinate with the Energy Department on implementing a key report the agency released  on the challenges facing the energy storage market. Dave Berick, the Senate committee’s chief investigator, will serve as the point person to work with DOE, Wyden […]

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Detailed Discussion of Benefits, Challenges, and Next Steps for Wider Adoption onto the Nation’s Electric Grid As part of the Obama Administration’s commitment to a cleaner, more secure energy future, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz today released the Energy Department’s Grid Energy Storage report to the members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. The […]

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Originally published on Clean Technica. Energy storage fans are rejoicing all across the country on the heels of a new ruling by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), which opens the floodgates to connecting more solar arrays and wind farms to the power grid. FERC adopted the new ruling, Order 792, in order to bring […]

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