Latest news from Clean Horizon
Energy storage news - November 5th, 2021
This week’s TOP 5 features news about plans for 2GWh storage projects in the UK, a 300MW/3.6GWh solar storage project in Australia, the granting of development approval for a 450MWh battery system in Australia, the commissioning of two 100MW projects in Texas, and plans for a 25MW project in the Bahamas.
post.read-moreEnergy storage news - October 29th, 2021
This week’s TOP 5 features news about an MoU on a 1GW wind-plus-1GWh storage project in Kazakhstan, plans for more than 2GWh of energy storage systems in California, two storage projects in Taiwan, results of a tender for a wind-plus-storage project in Chile, and the commissioning of a 50MW battery system in the UK.
post.read-moreEnergy storage news - June 4th, 2021
This week’s TOP 5 features news about another massive battery deployment plan in South Africa following the selection of Scatec in the RIMPPP, the opening of an innovative funding opportunity for long-duration storage demonstration projects in the UK, the unveiling of an ambitious solar hybrid project in Portugal by Endesa, the finalization of two grid-scale batteries in the Philippines and the 150 MW storage project announced by a major electricity provider in Australia.
post.read-moreEurope’s energy storage transformation - September 23th, 2020
This article presents the evolution of Energy storage systems' applications within Europe - historically used for grid balancing purposes, limiting their use to such applications or to be considered as “auxiliaries” to renewable generation assets.
post.read-moreCo-located solar and storage: What’s needed for a multi-gigawatt market to form
Discover the full article by Liam Stoker in PVTech which quotes Corentin Baschet, Head of Market Analysis at Clean Horizon Consulting on the prospects of co-located projects in the USA.
post.read-moreReal-Time Control Based on a CAN-Bus of Hybrid Electrical Systems - September, 1st 2020
Discover the full article by Dr Kréhi Serge Agbli, Mr. Mickaël Hilairet and Frédéric Gustin, released on MDPI website. Power management of a one-converter parallel structure with battery and supercapacitor is addressed in this paper. The controller is implemented on a DSP from a Microchip and uses a Controller Area Network (CAN) bus communication for data exchange. However, the low data transmission rate of the CAN bus data impacts the performances of regular power management strategies. This paper details an initial strategy with a charge sustaining mode for an application coupling a battery with supercapacitors, in which low performances have been witnessed due to the high sampling time of the CAN bus data. Therefore, a new strategy is proposed to tackle the sample time issue based on a depleting mode. Simulation and experimental results with a dsPIC33EP512MU810 DSP based on a 10 kW hybrid system proves the feasibility of the proposed approach.
post.read-more