Nissan and Opus to work used EV batteries

19 February 2019 Latest Power Market News Nissan and Opus to work used EV batteries (Europe): Nissan and camper manufacturer Opus to use second-hand EV batteries to provide off-grid power with new Nissan ROAM battery. It is made of lithium ion batteries delivering 700Wh of storage capacity and a power output of 1kW. It can

Future Trams systems could be powered by batteries to ease congestion

8 February 2019 Latest Power Market News Prysmian to upgrade Washington power transmission grid in various phases (North America): Italy’s Prysmian Group is to upgrade the power transmission grid of Washington, D.C in various stages. The project is going to start in 2019 and is expected to be completed by 2026 at the cost of

India to purchase battery power electric buses

4 February 2019 Latest Power Market News India to purchase battery power electric busses (Asia Pacific): Tamil Nadu government plans to purchase 2,000 low maintenance battery-powered buses to introduce environment-friendly public transport systems. The German state-owned development bank KfW will provide the loans for the project at 2% interest.   PM Modi launches various power

Google launches its first clean energy project in Taiwan

23 January 2019 Latest Power Market News Google launches its first clean energy project in Taiwan (Asia Pacific): Google has launched its first clean energy project to support its local data centre with the cooperation of Taiwanese power companies and the government. It will set up a 10MW solar farm in Tainan City, Taiwan. AfDB approves $25m for renewable projects in Africa (Africa): African Development Bank

Toyota and Panasonic in a joint venture to produce batteries for electric vehicles

22 January 2019 Latest Power Market News DBT will supply current transformers for the Tunisian Electricity and Gas Company (STEG) (Europe): The French transformer manufacturer DBT will deliver 560 three-phase measurement blocks transformers and 4,200 single-phase measurement transformers (CR range) for a total amount of $1.5 million by the end of 2019. Toyota and Panasonic

Egyptian and Sudanese electricity interconnection project to be completed by 2020

18 January 2019 Latest Power Market News Egyptian and Sudanese electricity interconnection project to be completed by 2020 (Africa): The first phase of Egyptian and Sudanese electricity interconnection project will go live in February 2019 and will reach 300MW. It is expected that by the first quarter of 2020, capacity will be upgraded reach 3000MW.

Eaton has developed efficient power inverters for EVs

17 January 2018 Latest Power Market News Eaton has developed efficient power inverters for EVs (Europe): Eaton developed compact power dense inverters for electric vehicles with a high power density of 35 kW/L with 98% operating efficiency which will induce electricity from the battery. It will be tested by a global automaker in the first

The largest vanadium battery in China is installed

14 January 2019 Latest Power Market News The largest vanadium battery in China is installed (Asia Pacific): VRB Energy commissioned 3MW / 12MWh vanadium redox flow battery energy storage project in China with the aim to integrate a large solar PV system into a grid in its first phase of a 10MW 40MWh project. This

The world’s largest battery plant connected with solar power is launched in Hawaii

10 January 2019 Latest Power Market News China to add new pumped hydro capacity (Asia Pacific): China’s State Grid will develop five pumped hydro storage plants which would have a total capacity of 6GW. These projects will cost nearly $5.7 billion and are expected to be operational by 2026.   The world’s largest battery plant