8 NEWS IN BRIEF
New battery system for New Jersey
wastewater plant Eos Energy Storage has announced the installation and commissioning of a 250 KW battery system at the wastewater treatment plant in Caldwell, New Jersey. The batteries are a central component of Public Service Electric and Gas Company’s on-site solar-plus-storage microgrid that will help keep the facility operating during extended power outages. The microgrid includes an Eos Energy Storage system and an 896 KW solar PV system designed and installed by Advanced Solar Products of Flemington, New Jersey. Siemens Energy Management integrated the Eos Aurora system, solar facility, and existing diesel generator, as well as the intelligent control technology to monitor, manage and distribute power across the system.
Sonnen initiative is designed to bring
power to Puerto Rico The Sonnen Puerto Rico Energy Security Initiative (PRESI) is well underway. Sonnen has donated 15 microgrids in Puerto Rico to support community sites and has a team in Puerto Rico working with local partner, Pura Energia, to install the micro-grid systems. The first Sonnen micro-grid is up and running at a church in Loiza and community micro-grid installations are expected to appear over the coming weeks. The company is continuing to send large shipments of sonnenBatterie systems and other relief supplies from its Innovation- Hub in Atlanta, USA, to the island. Sonnen has established the Sonnen
Foundation for Energy Security in Puerto Rico to provide aid to individ- uals and entire communities in need,
Australia turns on its first renewable energy from Wave Power Array
worldwide,” said Ivor Frischknecht – CEO of the Australian Renewable Energy Association (ARENA), which provided $13 million of the $32 million project. “During the testing phase, the first
240kW peak capacity CETO 5 wave unit operated successfully for more than 2,000 hours.
November 14th, 2017: The Australian
Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) joined Minister for Industry and Science Ian Macfarlane has officially ‘switched on’ the Carnegie Perth Wave Energy Project’s onshore power station . Following successful testing last year, the project is now up and running, feeding renewable energy into HMAS Stirling, Australia’s largest naval base. Carnegie’s unique, Australian-made CETO technology moves with the ocean’s waves to drive tethered seabed pumps and operates under water, providing protection from storms and corrosion. The submerged pumps feed high
pressure water onshore to the hydro - electric power station and desalination plant, supplying renewable energy and fresh water. “This is the first array of wave power generators to be connected to an electricity grid in Australia and
Wärtsilä delivers engines for two new US- based power plants currently being developed by WEC Energy Group’s subsidiary Upper
Michigan Energy Resources (UMERC) Taaleri Wärtsilä will deliver engines for two new US-based power plants currently being developed by WEC Energy Group’s subsidiary Upper Michigan Energy Resources (UMERC). In a deal worth in the region of €80m, Wärtsilä will supply ten units of its 50SG engines, which operate on natural gas fuel. The engines are now scheduled to be delivered by August 2018, with the plants expected to be fully commissioned by 2019. Wärtsilä Energy Solutions US and Canada regional director Mikael Backman said:
“Wärtsilä’s smart power generation solution will enable efficiency to be maintained across a broad range of output. “Each engine requires very limited use of water for cooling and the environmental footprint is small, plus the modularised solution means that additional capacity can easily be accommodated if needed. Wärtsilä’s smart power generation solution will enable efficiency to be maintained across a broad range of output.” Located in the Negaunee and Baraga townships in Michigan, the UMERC power plants will be designed to produce a combined output of 188MW. Once fully operational, the plants will be able to supply around 40,000 residential consumers and a large mining operation with electricity. The plants will also replace an existing coal-fired power plant providing both baseload and intermittent power. In total, Wärtsilä has installed more than 3,000MW capacity across the US, and around 65GW worldwide.
Worldwide Independent Power November 2017
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ARENA has been established by the Australian Government to make renew- able energy technologies more affordable and increase the supply of renewable energy in Australia. Through the provision of funding coupled with deep commercial and technical expertise, ARENA provides the support needed to accelerate the development of promising new solutions towards commercialisation. RENA always looks for at least matched funding from the projects it supports and to date has committed $1.1 billion in funding to more than 270 projects.
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