Energy storage developers like Enel X, Convergent and Stem are active in the Canadian province’s politically charged energy market. Batteries are benefiting from a bizarre market setup in Ontario that has politicians canceling energy-saving programs while at the same time pledging to cut bills. The Canadian province is fighting to reduce the financial burden imposed […]
Energy Storage
Storing Energy in Salt—Vattenfall Testing Technology at Berlin Plant
Swedish power company Vattenfall is testing a technology that stores energy in salt, with a goal of proving whether the process would be useful for storage of renewable energy such as from wind and solar farms. The pilot project, commissioned April 11 at the Reuter thermal power plant in Berlin (Figure 1), is being conducted […]
1000 MWh Renewable Energy Storage Project In Utah Announced
Utah governor Gary Herbert and US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced what they termed the largest clean energy storage system in the world last week. A partnership of Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems and Magnum Development will use a combination of renewable hydrogen, compressed air storage, large-scale flow batteries, and solid oxide fuel cells to store just under 1000 […]
How Residential Energy Storage Could Help Support the Power Grid
Household batteries could contribute to making the grid more cost effective, reliable, resilient, and safe—if retail battery providers, utilities, and regulators can resolve delicate commercial, operational, and policy issues. The growth of battery storage in the power sector has attracted a great deal of attention in the industry and media. Much of that attention focuses on utility-scale […]
Centre for Automotive Research and Tribology (CART), inaugurated today at IIT Delhi
New Delhi: IIT Delhi has inaugurated the Centre for Automotive Research and Tribology (CART) today, with a vision to become an internationally recognized centre in teaching, research, and technological service in the area of Electric Vehicles, Energy Storage & Monitoring, Automotive Health Monitoring, Calibration & Diagnostics and Tribology. CART has emerged from ITMMEC, a centre […]
Electric storage: From idea to action
Policymakers and energy companies are discussing with renewed fervor how to incentivize more storage additions to the grid in US markets and around the world. So far, the benefits of storage remain largely untapped, as most jurisdictions learn to optimize the full potential of its capabilities balanced with policy and regulatory solutions. Growth in storage […]
A huge energy storage deal raises major doubts
A Japanese manufacturer of gas turbines and a US owner of salt caverns have teamed up in an effort to develop what would be one of the world’s largest energy storage projects, relying on hydrogen and compressed air stored deep underground. The doubts: Some energy observers raised questions about the project’s viability, given the current […]
New International Partnership Established to Increase the Use of Energy Storage in Developing Countries
A global partnership convened by the World Bank Group to foster international cooperation to adapt and develop energy storage solutions for developing countries VANCOUVER: On the occasion of the 10th Clean Energy Ministerial and 4th Mission Innovation Ministerial, a new international partnership has been established to help expand the deployment of energy storage and bring […]
Japanese utility TEPCO uses blockchain to trial bi-directional energy system of the future
Tokyo’s main power company is using blockchain distributed ledger technology to assess how customers on its new renewable energy tariffs could use solar, batteries and electric vehicles to trade energy via the grid. TEPCO, formerly the monopoly utility supplier and grid operator for a large region surrounding the Japanese capital city, launched TRENDE, a renewable […]
BELECTRIC installs storage system for Audi using second-life batteries
BELECTRIC has completed a 1.9MWh energy storage system using second life electric vehicle (EV) batteries, for Audi in Berlin. The project has been built at the EUREF Campus, a high-tech, low carbon innovation cluster. The system uses 20 batteries from test vehicles owned by Audi. “On the EUREF Campus, we’ve seen a present-day example of […]