A hydrogen ‘power station’ which includes 15MWh of batteries as part of a total 140MWh of renewable energy-charged energy storage, will be built on French Guiana by Hydrogène de France (HDF Energy). The power station, dubbed the French Western Guiana Power Plant, will combine a 55MW solar farm... Read more

In a bid to support the government’s electric mobility drive, Delta Power Solutions (India) Pvt. Ltd, a leading Power and Energy management company, has launched its Electric Vehicle (EV) Charger Center today at Maharashtra Mantralaya. The launch ceremony was graced by Dr. Harsh Vardhan Union Mini... Read more

Vikram Solar today said it has commissioned a 10 MW solar power project for Bharat Electronics Limited at the ordnance factory in Itarsi, Madhya Pradesh. This is a captive power plant, and the power generated through this will be used by Ordnance Factory Itarsi. Apart from installation, Vikram Sola... Read more

The government has decided not to impose safeguards duty on solar equipment from China and Malaysia, overruling the directorate general of safeguards’ recommendation of a 70% levy that had delighted local manufacturers but alarmed developers who felt that the steep rise in input costs would make p... Read more

The certification body Underwriters Laboratories is among a group of investors putting $6.6 million into a little-known battery performance testing startup called Voltaiq. In a press release, Voltaiq said UL would be making the investment through its UL Ventures arm. Others in the oversubscribed Se... Read more

Energy storage is storming the U.S. power industry, driving changes from the bulk system level to the customer level. At the system level, February's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Order 841 required bulk system operators to design new rules to integrate storage. April's Order 845 rewr... Read more

The California Public Utilities Commission gave the go-ahead Thursday to wide-ranging proposals from the state’s large investor-owned utilities to expand electric vehicle infrastructure and rebate programs with a total budget of more than $750 million. The approved plans mark the state’s larges... Read more

The Union government has set a target of increasing the number of electric cars to 4% of the overall new vehicle sales in the next five years starting from 2018-19. The target, which takes into consideration the impediments on the road to successful adoption of electric mobility, has been set for t... Read more

Indian engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor Sterling and Wilson has secured an order for a hybrid microgrid powered by solar, diesel and battery energy storage in Western Africa. The contract involves Africa's largest battery energy storage project that will see the deployment... Read more

State-run Energy Efficiency Services (EESL) is in talks with states like Telangana, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan among others for supplying electric vehicles (EV), a senior company official said. EESL, a joint venture company of government-owned four power sector companies including NTPC, Power Fin... Read more

Indian EPC firm Sterling and Wilson has won its first large-scale hybrid and energy storage turnkey EPC contract order in Western Africa, including what it believes to be both the largest battery storage project and single battery installation in the whole continent. The scope of work – the compa... Read more

The government has pushed back a deadline to put thousands of battery-driven cars on the road by nearly a year, in a setback to its ambitions of having electric vehicles comprise about a third of its fleet by 2030. State-owned Energy Efficiency Services Ltd, which is responsible for procuring elect... Read more