SOUTHFIELD, Mich.: Power management company Eaton today announced its eMobility business was chosen by Nidec-PSA Emotors (Emotors), a joint venture between Nidec Leroy-Somer and Groupe PSA, to supply high-performance traction inverters for a battery-electric vehicle platform. “We are pleased to partner with Emotors and value the opportunity to support them in one of their product […]
Energy Storage
Daimler Leads $170M Investment in Sila Nano’s Next-Generation Battery Tech
Traditional automakers continue to invest big money in battery technology for electric vehicles. Sila Nanotechnologies just won another $170 million of venture and corporate funding to develop advanced battery materials that improve power performance of electric vehicles and consumer electronics. The Alameda, California-based startup, founded in 2011, is looking to commercialize a new set of […]
GE Renewable Energy to Implement DC-Coupled Solar and Battery Energy Storage Hybrid System in Upstate New York
PHOENIX, Arizona: GE Renewable Energy today said is has reached an agreement with Helios Energy to deliver two energy storage systems to be integrated with solar arrays for the Lenox Solar / Energy Storage project in Lenox, NY. The hybrid system will be installed in upstate New York at the end of 2019 and is […]
Chinese state firm starts building 500MW of solar, huge energy storage system
Subsidiaries of state-run energy conglomerate China Energy Engineering Corp have started constructing two major solar plants and one of the largest energy storage systems in China, according to filings on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (HKEX). China Energy Engineering Group Shanxi Electric Power Engineering has started building a 500MW solar PV project, split between […]
A brighter future: Why energy storage belongs in the investment tax credit
The following is a contributed article by Kelly Speakes-Backman, CEO of the Energy Storage Association, and Heather Reams, executive director of Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions. Renewable energy has come a long way in the last decade and that’s good for all of us. But a successful clean energy market and smart power grid can […]
New way to create fast-charging lithium-ion batteries discovered
A lithium-ion battery charges and discharges as lithium ions move between two electrodes, called an anode and a cathode. New York: Scientists, including one of Indian origin, have developed a way to make lithium-ion battery that can charge within minutes but still operate at a high capacity, an advance that may improve performance for smartphones […]
Battery Energy Storage System Market is Anticipated to Exceed US$ 9 Billion by 2024
New York: The Battery Energy Storage System Market is expected to exceed more than US$ 9 Billion by 2024 at a CAGR of 34% in the given forecast period. The report covers detailed competitive outlook including the market share and company profiles of the key participants operating in the global market. Key players profiled in the […]
Make Carnot Batteries with Molten Salt Thermal Energy Storage in ex-Coal Plants
Retiring coal power plants could see a new life serving the green economy by storing renewable energy as thermal batteries, delivering the stored energy back to the grid using the former coal plant’s existing power blocks and grid connections. Leveraging the low cost of the molten salt thermal energy storage used in CSP (Concentrated Solar Power) plants, […]
SaltX aims to compete with pumped hydro’s economics as 10MWh pilot launches
Electrical and heat storage using specially nanocoated salt (NCS) could be economically competitive with pumped hydro, SaltX has said, with a large-scale demonstration facility inaugurated in Berlin, Germany. Headquartered in Sweden, SaltX has been “working with salts for 15 years”, the company’s marketing director Eric Jacobson told Energy-Storage.news today. This specific application for the salt-based energy storage […]
FY20 Budget Request: DOE Applied Energy R&D
President Trump’s fiscal year 2020 budget request for the Department of Energy includes a $2 billion cut to the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and smaller but still sizeable cuts to nuclear and fossil energy R&D programs. The request proposes increases for electric grid resilience programs that would support new R&D efforts. In […]