North Sea Long-Term Vision Needed — EU Renewable Energy Policy, Part 4
This is part of a series about the EU Parliament and needed policies. The articles in this series are:
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sonnen Edges Into The Grid Services Market In Germany
sonnen and partner tiko Energy Solutions have received pre-qualification from the transmission system operator for the grid in Germany, TenneT, to leverage its existing distributed network of energy storage systems pooled into a virtual power plant to provide primary balancing power.
EU Forces German Network Operator TenneT To Open The Floodgates For Danish Wind Energy
the EU Commissioner of competition Margrethe Vestager has threatened to fine TenneT 10% of its worldwide revenue if it does not comply to EU law and raise the maximum usage to 75% right away, which means 1.3 GW. After this TenneT is forced to raise the general capacity to 2.6 GW no later than 2026.
Germany’s Battery Storage & Redispatch Costs Hit Record Highs In 2017
Renewable energy generation is still on the rise in Germany, though at a much lower pace than in the years around 2010, writes Marius Buchmann of Jacobs University in a detailed overview of the German electricity market in 2017. Costs of the feed-in tariff are stagnating, notes Buchmann, but redispatch costs which grid operators incur to keep the system stable, reached a new record far above €1 billion.
sonnen’s Energy Storage Leadership Around The World
Sonnen is one of our favorite cleantech leaders. It is great at innovation, leadership, and vision. Last month, I published a January interview with sonnen CEO and co-founder Christoph Ostermann. The good folks at The Beam went and created a transcript of it. If you can’t be bothered to watch a video but would like to read it, here you go!
Mitsubishi Announces V2G Pilot Project Utilizing Outlander PHEVs In Amsterdam
Mitsubishi will be implementing a vehicle-to-grid pilot project in Amsterdam based around the use of the battery packs outfitted in the Outlander PHEVs (plug-in hybrids), according to a new press release.
TenneT Proposes Artificial Island For Up To 70 GW Of Offshore Wind
It has been a great week for clean energy in Europe. First, the energy ministers of nine North Sea countries met at an Energy Council in Luxembourg to discuss cooperation on offshore wind power. The nine countries: Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, France, Denmark, Ireland, and Belgium signed a Memorandum … [continued]
World’s Most Powerful Offshore Converter Installed In North Sea
ABB has reached an impressive project milestone this week, by installing the world’s most powerful offshore converter station in the North Sea. The 320 kilovolt converter station is housed on a massive offshore platform, and has a transmission capacity of 916 MW, which makes it the most powerful installation of … [continued]
Dutch Utility Plans Green Bonds For Offshore Wind Projects
Earlier this month, Dutch transmission system operator TenneT announced the launch of its green bonds programme. TenneT revealed the launch of a green bonds programme and a green bonds framework to raise funds that will be used to set up transmission capacity for offshore wind energy projects. TenneT will become the first non-financial … [continued]
How Europe’s Power Grid Handled the Solar Eclipse
Originally published on Planetsave.com. Several months in advance of the March 20, 2015, total solar eclipse, the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E) began evaluating the risk to Europe’s power grid. Because the European power grid incorporates significant solar generation, the risk of negative impact during a … [continued]
