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Bahamas Power and Light Company Limited (BPL) will leverage a battery energy storage system supplied and installed by Finnish firm Wärtsilä to optimize the operations of its Blue Hills Power Station in Nassau.

The energy storage system will provide spinning reserve services to enhance the reliability and efficiency of BPL’s 132MW dual-fuel power plant.

Pine Gate Renewables will build Utah's first stand-alone battery storage project, the company announced this week.

A new report by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, “An Examination of the Hydropower Licensing and Federal Authorization Process,” reveals ways to streamline the licensing process for hydroelectric projects.

By Shelley Robbins, Clean Energy Group

As the fossil fuel industry rages against the dying of the gas light, they continue to work to plant doubt about an economy centered around solar and wind paired with battery storage. Since it is hard to cast doubt on the abundance of sun and wind, they instead target battery storage and the components that make up much of today’s lithium-ion batteries.

About a year ago, Generac acquired DERMS provider Enbala to further its smart grid 2.0 capabilities and yesterday, the company said it is adding smart home technology company ecobee to its family.

For most of history since Thomas Edison, electric power was pretty simple. It mostly came from large power plants that used a few different fuels, mostly fossil, and with exceptions like nuclear or hydroelectric power, emitted tons of carbon dioxide.

Microsoft will power its data centers in Virginia with 24/7 clean energy through a 15-year agreement with AES Corporation.

In Sweden, renewable energy firm HPSolartech has signed a deal with infrastructure funding company Sunspark for the construction of 40 land-based solar energy parks in the southern parts of the European country.

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