Category: battery storage

Using Electric Vehicles as Grid Storage: Another Green Fantasy

Commentary The push for electrification of the entire economy—electric cars and trucks, electric heat and hot water, and even electric stoves—is relentless. Various states, including California, New Jersey, and New York, to name just three, have enacted legislation and developed all-encompassing “plans” to put everything into an electrified basket. But electrification requires, well, electricity. Lots…


Acciona Energía Purchases Largest Battery Energy Storage Project in Texas

Acciona Energía has acquired the largest battery energy storage system (BESS) project in Texas. On Tuesday, the Spain-based renewable energy operator announced its agreement with Qcells USA Corp., a subsidiary of the South Korean industrial group Hanwha Corporation, to purchase the 190-megawatt storage facility project known as Cunningham. “We have been working on battery storage…