“A fire at French renewable energy giant Neoen’s Victorian Big Battery at Geelong continued to burn into Sunday, with fire crews awaiting experts from Tesla to assist in opening the Megapack battery that first caught ablaze. The fire started at the partly federally funded 300-megawatt Tesla Megapack battery project at Moorabool on Friday morning. … [Read more…]
“Morris officials said the evacuation order for the massive industrial fire will remain in place indefinitely, even as they continue to make progress fighting it. Official said Thursday morning they “made a lot of progress” using Portland cement mix to fight a massive industrial fire at an abandoned paper mill Thursday and that it … [Read more…]
“As a fire at a building housing tons of lithium batteries continued to burn Wednesday in Morris — forcing the evacuation of about 3,000 people from their homes — Mayor Chris Brown said the city never received a business license request from the company occupying the structure. “Nobody’s applied. We didn’t even know they … [Read more…]
“Funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program, Four Firefighters Injured In Lithium-Ion Battery Energy Storage System Explosion – Arizona is the first report issued as part of the Study of Firefighter Line of Duty Injuries and Near Misses. This report details … [Read more…]
“Democrats dream of powering society entirely with wind and solar farms combined with massive batteries. Realizing this dream would require the biggest expansion in mining the world has seen and would produce huge quantities of waste. “Renewable energy” is a misnomer. Wind and solar machines and batteries are built from nonrenewable materials. And they … [Read more…]
“This Local Law is intended to be consistent with and is adopted pursuant to the authority granted to the Town Board of the Town of Rush under the New York State Constitution, and the Laws of the State of New York, including but not limited to the following authorities: New York State Constitution Article … [Read more…]
“Canberra-based company Windlab told the ASX it was planning to downgrade the value of its stake in north Queensland’s Kennedy Energy Park. The Australia-first facility combines 12 wind turbines, 55,000 solar panels, and four megawatt hours of battery storage, all designed to power 35,000 homes. Located east of the town of Hughenden the project … [Read more…]
“As the costs of solar PV modules continue to reduce, and those of batteries follow a similar downward trajectory, solar-plus-storage is in growing demand among utilities and solar developers. The US is leading the trend, where these types of clean energy power stations are starting to produce electricity competitively with gas peaking plants, especially … [Read more…]
“New technologies and designs aimed at driving down the cost of energy storage facilities are currently the focus of intense industry R&D. Sara Verbruggen reports on DC coupling, an emerging system architecture that many believe will soon become the industry standard, in a paper which first appeared in PV Tech Power’s Energy Storage Special … [Read more…]
“After a five-month investigation into fires at 23 energy storage installations in South Korea, an expert panel has blamed poor-quality installations, faulty operating procedures, missing protections against electrical shocks and lack of overall control systems, several South Korean media outlets reported after the June 11 release of the committee’s findings. The probe also revealed … [Read more…]