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We are now dangerously reliant on interconnectors, not least because wind power is also falling in countries like Germany and Denmark:

Ellen Fungisai Chipango, University of Johannesburg Zimbabwe is one of the African countries that hopes renewable energy technologies will help to address their energy problems...

Faced with varying waves of energy storage resources, grid operators are taking steps to accommodate devices sitting in their interconnection queues. RTO Insider gives this briefin on the ESA Energy Storage Policy Forum.

GE Renewable Energy to supply and commission four 125 MW fixed speed pumped storage turbines for the new Kundah hydropower plant. The project is part of ongoing effort by Indian government to take full advantage of hydropower...

California officials expect that the state needs 1 gigawatt of new long-duration energy storage by 2026 to advance its clean-energy transition. That figure emerged in the "reference system portfolio" that the California Public...

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) announced the grand prize winners in the Furthering Advancements to Shorten Time (FAST) Commissioning for Pumped-Storage Hydropower Prize competition,...

The New York Power Authority (NYPA) is moving ahead with its first large-scale energy storage project. NYPA announced it is establishing a 20-MW demonstration facility adjacent to one of its substations in Franklin County....

In announcing a resource plan Monday, Portland General Electric, the state's largest electric utility, said investments in energy efficiency, demand management, customer-generated energy, new renewables and energy storage...

Senator Lisa Murkowski and energy leaders were in Cordova, Alaska over the weekend for the ribbon cutting of Cordova Electric Cooperative's battery energy storage system...

A Chilean utility has broken ground on a 50 megawatt-hour (MWh) battery energy storage project paired with a run-of-river hydroelectric facility. The battery will be capable of storing electricity produced from the hydro...

Scientists from General Electric's Global Research Center in Niskayuna recently won a $1.25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to study the viability of so-called pumped storage hydropower technology that essentially...

In recent years, 50-60% of Uruguay's power has been generated from the country's four hydroelectric dams on the River Uruguay. Most of the remainder comes from renewable energy sources such as solar panels and wind turbines....

Fortum has started operating a 5 MW/6.2 MWh lithium-ion battery storage system at the Forshuvud hydropower plant in Dalarna, Sweden. It plans to use the storage system to lower the risk of network disturbances, while minimizing...

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has turned two big lakes into a monster battery capable of storing enough energy to power tens of thousands of homes...

Pumped storage accounts for over 94% of installed global energy storage capacity, rightfully deserving the accolade of being the world's 'water battery'...