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Blathnaid O'Dea pv magazine

Blathnaid O’Dea

Blathnaid is Features Editor with pv magazine Global. Prior to joining the team in 2024, she specialized in writing feature-length articles about STEM careers. She also covered news, including some of Ireland’s renewable energy announcements over the past few years.

Articles written by Blathnaid O’Dea

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Industry
Sonnedix: Co-locating BESS to play “big, big role” in growth following €3.25 billion refinancing Axel Thiemann, CEO of Sonnedix, told ESS News co-locating battery energy storage systems (BESS) with its European assets is a major focus following its recent refinancing. Currently its co-located BESS portfolio is just over 1 GW.
Blathnaid O’Dea
Dec 20, 2024
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Industry
Developers close $538 million for 1.2 GWh battery storage facility in Canada The Hagersville Park financing qualifies as a green loan. Once commissioned, the project will be one of Canada's largest battery energy storage (BESS) sites.
Blathnaid O’Dea
Dec 18, 2024
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Software
Tibber launches virtual power plant in Sweden, the Netherlands The Grid Rewards scheme from Tibber enables Dutch and Swedish owners of its Homevolt battery to earn credit for the surplus power they feed into the balancing markets.
Blathnaid O’Dea
Dec 18, 2024
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Projects & Applications
European BESS: 105 MWh for Greece, 65 MWh for Switzerland Greece is getting four new battery energy storage systems (BESS) amounting to 105 MWh, while Germany's Intilion will develop 65 MWh for Switzerland's Primeo Energie. The UK's first transmission-connected co-located solar and BESS facility has contracted a new asset manager.
Blathnaid O’Dea
Dec 17, 2024
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Technologies
EV charging microgrid project powered by lead batteries The developers of the first-of-its-kind lead battery-powered EV charging station, currently located in Missouri, say they plan to roll it out across the US.
Blathnaid O’Dea
Dec 16, 2024
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Markets
US adds cumulative 3.8 GW in Q3, residential battery storage hits all-time high In the third quarter of 2024, the US installed 3.8 GW of storage across all segments, 80% increase from Q3 2023.
Blathnaid O’Dea
Dec 13, 2024
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Projects & Applications
Long duration energy storage must scale 50x faster to reach net zero Long-duration energy storage (LDES) capacity should reach 1.5 TW by 2030 and up to 8 TW by 2040 to achieve global decarbonization targets, says the LDES Council. Its annual report contains ‘seven enablers’ to scale LDES, mostly hinging on awareness of the technology.
Blathnaid O’Dea
Dec 13, 2024
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Products & Services
Energy Vault to provide 20 GWh of hyperscale battery storage to data centers Energy Vault made a deal to deploy its new multi-story, high energy density B-Nest battery energy storage systems (BESS) technology at several data centers owned by RackScale.
Blathnaid O’Dea
Dec 13, 2024
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Projects & Applications
ComEd adds community BESS to US brewery-owned solar project ComEd wants to explore the benefits of using a grid-connected battery energy storage system (BESS) in tandem with a small community solar project. The utility will pair a BESS with a solar deployment owned by an Illinois brewery as part of a government supported pilot.
Blathnaid O’Dea
Dec 12, 2024

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