Amazon to install Tesla battery alongside 4MWp solar array in latest UK plans
Amazon has submitted plans for a 4MW rooftop solar array to be deployed on its Tilbury fulfilment centre alongside a 3.77MW Tesla battery facility to help power the site, Solar Power Portal can reveal.Planning permission is being sought from Thurrock
US has gone past 1GWh of installed battery capacity, with help from utilities
US utilities deployed more than 520MWh of energy storage on their networks in 2017, bringing the country’s cumulative installed capacity of grid-connected energy storage systems to over 1GWh, trade organisation Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA) has found.By the end of
As Storms Bear Down, More Homeowners Look to Batteries – Not Generators – for Backup Power
Homeowners across the U.S. are buying batteries to store excess solar energy faster than factories can make them.
Farmers to flock to solar and battery storage, as power costs bite
Like households and small businesses, Australian farmers are increasingly turning to renewable energy technologies to cut their power costs and shore up their bottom lines.But a new report from Commonwealth Bank of Australia suggests the shift to solar and battery
Majority of UK solar installers facing hardship if export tariff is culled
A majority of UK solar installers said they would face hardship if the government presses ahead with plans to close the export tariff, a Solar Power Portal survey has found.And of those surveyed, more than half said the decision would
Will Solar work in a power cut?
Solar turns off in a power cut by default, so what can be done?
Retrofitting batteries on existing PV systems
The ending of the UK government’s main renewable energy support scheme in April 2019 might, in most circumstances, be expected to provide a serious blow to the UK’s renewable energy hopes. Except that it could also be just what is
China Doubled Its Battery Storage Capacity In Just Six Months
China is looking to boost its energy storage market and projects as it adds growing renewable power capacities. At the end of last year, the Chinese authorities issued a unified nationwide policy to boost the energy storage industry that has
In California, By 2045, 100% Energy Will Be Clean. What About The Rest Of The World?
By 43 votes to 32, the Assembly of the State of California has approved a measure requiring all energy used in the sunshine state to be from renewable sources by 2045. At present, 44% of energy already is, with 9%