NEDO、東芝エネルギーシステムズ（株）、東北電力（株）および岩谷産業（株）は、福島県浪江町において、再生可能エネルギーを利用した世界最大級となる1万kWの水素製造装置を備えた水素エネルギーシステム「福島水素エネルギー研究フィールド（Fukushima Hydrogen Energy Research Field （FH2R））」の建設工事を開始しました。
こうした中、伊藤忠商事（以下、伊藤忠）は2018年10月24日、英Moixa Energy Holdings（以下、Moixa）、エヌエフ回路設計ブロック（以下、エヌエフ回路）、東京電力ホールディングス傘下のTRENDEと共同で、家庭向け蓄電システムと、蓄電池と太陽光発電の利用を前提とした専用の電気料金プランを提供すると発表した。卒FITの住宅太陽光発電ユーザーをターゲットにしたサービスだ。2018年11月から提供を開始する。
This week Hawaiian Electric Company sent seven new solar-plus-storage contracts to state regulators. Six come in at record-low prices for the state, under 10 cents per kilowatt-hour.
The projects, which now await regulatory approval, would add 262 megawatts of solar and 1,048 megawatt-hours of storage distributed over three islands. The company said the projects will provide power “in place of volatile prices of fossil fuels,” which it quotes at about 15 cents per kilowatt-hour.
AES, Innergex, Clearway and 174 Power Global are developing the projects.
PARIS, Jan 23 (Reuters) - The French government said it has opened bids for a 300 megawatt solar power project as part of the conversion programme for its Fessenheim nuclear power plant that is due to be decommissioned by 2022.
The energy ministry said on Wednesday that it had notified the European Commission of its plans to launch the 250 million euros ($284 million) project and that the EU executive arm, which must clear all state aid, had approved it on Jan. 18.
“The launch of the tender shows the commitment of the government on the conversion of Fessenheim. It will help develop local electricity production from renewable energies,” French energy minister Francois de Rugy said in a statement.
The project would be carried out in three phases and the first bids are expected in six months. Two hundred mega watts would be ground-based solar plants, 75 MW would be rooftop solar installations, while 25 MW will be smaller installations.
The Fessenheim nuclear power plant, France’s oldest, operates two 900-megawatt (MW) reactors.
Those reactors are due to close as part of the government’s plan to reduce France’s dependence on nuclear power, and increase the development of renewable energies.
$1 = 0.8800 euros Reporting by Bate Felix; Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta
The rapidly dropping cost of renewable energy has upended energy economics in recent years, with new solar and wind plants now significantly cheaper than coal power.
But new research shows another major change is afoot: The cost of batteries has been declining so unexpectedly rapidly that renewables plus battery storage are now cheaper than even natural gas plants in many applications, according to a report released this week by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF).
BNEF analyzed pricing data from almost 7,000 power projects in 46 countries that span 20 energy technologies, including coal, gas, nuclear, battery storage, solar photovoltaics (PV), and wind.
They report that electricity prices “for onshore wind, solar PV and offshore wind have fallen by 49 percent, 84 percent and 56 percent respectively since 2010.” Costs for lithium-ion battery storage have dropped 76 percent since 2012 ? and plunged 35 percent in the past year alone.
