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CEC proposes plan for California utilities to reach 1.325 GW of energy storage ...
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The California Energy Commission (CEC) has proposed a procurement plan energy storage targets for the state's three private utilities, to reach a cumulative total of 1.325 GW by 2020. The CEC calls for “viable and cost-effective” storage systems from ...

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Interview With Maxwell Technologies: Ultracapacitor-based Energy Storage ...
CleanTechnica
A week ago, Maxwell Technologies announced they had been “been awarded a $1.39 million contract by the California Energy Commission's Research and Development program to fund design and integration of an ultracapacitor-based energy storage ...

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Soitec and Maxwell collaborate to demonstrate benefits of integrating energy ...
Semiconductor Today
Concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) solar system maker Soitec of Bernin, France and Maxwell Technologies Inc, a developer and manufacturer of storage and power delivery solutions, are to collaborate on a California Energy Commission (CEC)-funded, ...
Maxwell Technologies Awarded $1.39M Contract from California Energy ...San Diego Business Journal
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Soitec, Maxwell Technologies to collaborate on solar CPV, energy storage
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Under a 1.39 million contract by the California Energy Commission's Research and Development program, the companies will design and integrate an ultracapacitor-based energy storage system with Soitec's Concentrix CPV system at two locations in ...
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California PUC proposes 1.3 GW energy storage target for 2020
Metering International (subscription)
San Francisco, CA, U.S.A. --- (METERING.COM) --- June 13, 2013 - The California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has proposed a 1.325 GW energy storage procurement target for 2020 for the state's three investor owned utilities. For Southern California ...

California Energy-Storage Plan May Require $3 Billion Investment
Bloomberg
Energy companies may invest as much as $3 billion on power-storage systems in California to facilitate wider use of renewable energy. Utilities owned by PG&E Corp. (PCG), Sempra Energy (SRE) and Edison International (EIX) would be required to procure ...
Mixed Greens: Grid-scale energy storage coming to CaliforniaRenewEconomy

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California Smashes Solar Energy Record
Energy Collective
Cal-ISO's solar record shouldn't come as a surprise. Nationally, California ranked first for solar energy in the Solar Energy Industries Association's (SEIA) 2012 US Solar Market Insight Report with 1,032 MW installed in 2012, enough to power 626,000 ...

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Maxwell And Soitec Team To Integrate Energy Storage With CPV Technology
Solar Industry
Maxwell Technologies Inc. and France-based Soitec are collaborating on a California Energy Commission-funded program to demonstrate the benefits of combining an energy storage system with concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) technology. Maxwell says its ...

Soitec and Maxwell Technologies win US$1.39 million contract for storage R&D
PV-Tech
Maxwell Technologies has been awarded a US$1.39 million contract to fund design and integration of an ultracapacitor-based energy storage system with Soitec's Concentrix CPV system located on the campus of University of California, San Diego and a ...

Maxwell Technologies Awarded $1.39M Contract from California Energy ...
San Diego Business Journal
San Diego-based Maxwell Technologies Inc. has been awarded a $1.39 million contract by the California Energy Commission to design and install an energy storage system at UC San Diego. The new system will integrate with the existing solar energy ...
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Maxwell Technologies, Soitec Join Forces To Demonstrate Benefits Of ...
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Maxwell has been awarded a $1.39 million contract by the California Energy Commission's Research and Development program to fund design and integration of an ultracapacitor-based energy storage system with Soitec's CPV system located on the ...

Maxwell Technologies, Soitec Join Forces To Demonstrate Benefits Of ...
PR Newswire (press release)
Maxwell has been awarded a $1.39 million contract by the California Energy Commission's Research and Development program to fund design and integration of an ultracapacitor-based energy storage system with Soitec's CPV system located on the ...

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California Sets Energy Storage Target of 1.3GW by 2020
Greentech Media
California has just taken a big step forward in making grid-scale energy storage on a truly massive scale a reality. On Monday, the California Public Utilities Commission released a proposal (PDF) that would call for the state's big three investor ...

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Greensmith Boasts Growth in Energy Storage Sector
InvestorIdeas.com (press release)
Upcoming projects include several Community Energy Storage-sized systems of 100 kW / 200 kWh for distribution-level interconnection, and two MW-scale projects in California . The latter, MW-scale projects represent a ten-fold increase in power capacity ...

Global Warming Programs Force Hike in California Power Bills
Budget & Tax News
Part of the extra money collected from California consumers by SDG&E will fund energy storage research, as wind and solar power is intermittent and cannot be stored efficiently. “Due to the growing use of photovoltaic generation in SDG&E's service ...

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San Onofre's Closing: An Advance for Safe, Clean, Renewable Energy
Huffington Post
Get Green Alerts: Sign Up. Southern California Edison's announcement this week that it will close its troubled twin-reactor San Onofre nuclear power plant--along with other recent setbacks for atomic energy in the United States--marks a downward spiral ...
Who'll get stuck with San Onofre's $3B tab?Environment & Energy Publishing

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What Happens When California Meets 33 Percent Renewables Mandate?
Energy Collective
California has geothermal, CSP with storage, PV, wind, demand response, and energy efficiency, White noted. “We have a whole symphony of resources, but we need to bring them together based on the long-term policy objective of cutting GHGs 80 percent ...

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San Onofre nuclear power plant to shut down permanently
Examiner.com
Ron Litzinger, SCE's President had this to say, “Looking ahead we think that our decision to retire the units will eliminate uncertainty and facilitate orderly planning for California's energy future.” SONGS has been serving the region for over 40 year ...
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Rally against nuclear power
The Japan Times
The proposed solutions, whether to expand the number of storage tanks or to make frozen walls in the soil to lessen leakage, show little progress and much desperation. Power companies and the ... Even former Prime Minister Naoto Kan, giving his first ...

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Exclusive: Marubeni set to cut Gavilon energy arm out of takeover
Reuters
A spokesman for Gavilon in New York also declined to comment. Omaha, Nebraska-based Gavilon's shareholders include investor George Soros, Dwight Anderson's Ospraie hedge fund, and Egypt's Orascom Construction Industries (OCIC.CA). BREAKUP ... Gavilon's ...
Exclusive - Marubeni set to cut Gavilon energy arm out of takeoverReuters UK

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