Almost exactly a year since the Nordic region’s ‘largest’ battery energy storage system to date was announced, Saft has said that the next system to take that crown will be a project the company will work on in Finland. Saft, the battery energy storage system (BESS) specialist fully-owned by energy major Total, emailed Energy-Storage.news today […]
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New Hybrid Device Efficiently Captures and Stores Solar Energy
Device offers a new avenue for capitalizing on abundant solar energy. Researchers from the University of Houston have reported a new device that can both efficiently capture solar energy and store it until it is needed, offering promise for applications ranging from power generation to distillation and desalination. Unlike solar panels and solar cells, which […]
Heliogen’s new tech could unlock renewable energy for industrial manufacturing
It’s a breakthrough in the quest to reduce carbon emissions Last Monday a group of millionaires and billionaires took a trip to an industrial site in Lancaster, Calif. to witness the achievement of what could represent a giant leap forward in the effort to decarbonize some of the world’s most carbon intensive industries. For Bill […]
Australia’s CEFC commits AU$50m to expanding ‘landmark’ Tesla Hornsdale Power Reserve battery system
Australia’s national Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has said it will commit AU$50 million (US$34.14 million) to help fund the expansion of the landmark Hornsdale battery project in South Australia. The national ‘green bank’ CEO Ian Learmouth said that CEFC sees “grid-scale batteries as a critical part of the next wave of investment that will […]
Silicon Based Battery Technology Gains Momentum as Gridtential Energy and Hoppecke Battery Enter Evaluation Agreement
SANTA CLARA, Calif., and BRILON, Germany : Gridtential Energy, the inventor and developer of Silicon Joule™ bipolar battery technology and Hoppecke Battery GmbH, the largest producer of industry battery systems in European ownership, announce that they have entered into a technology evaluation agreement. Under the agreement, over the next few months, Hoppecke Battery and Gridtential […]
Indonesia hopes for environmental nod soon for battery-grade nickel plants
Indonesia wants to become a global hub for producing and exporting electric vehicles (EVs) to Asia and beyond JAKARTA – Indonesia’s coordinating minister who oversees mining said on Monday he hoped environmental impact studies for factories to produce battery-grade nickel chemicals would be completed by the end of the year. The studies, known as AMDAL, […]
Azelio, Biodico plan 120 MW of thermal energy storage in California
Sweden-based Azelio AB has signed a pact with US biorefineries operator Biodico Inc to collaborate on the development of a series of thermal energy storage projects in California totalling 120 MW through 2024. Under the terms of a new memorandum of understanding (MoU), the two parties will work together on an initial project of 13 […]
Scientists want to use mountains like batteries to store energy
Researchers propose a gravity-based system for long-term energy storage. A new paper outlines using the the Mountain Gravity Energy Storage (or MGES) for long-term energy storage. This approach can be particularly useful in remote, rural and island areas. Gravity and hydropower can make this method a successful storage solution. Can we use mountains as gigantic […]
How the humble chairlift could revolutionize renewable energy
What do you see when you imagine a zero-carbon future? Electric buses zipping by? Rolling hills covered with solar panels? Offshore wind farms towering over the sea? If batteries are part of your vision, good thinking. But there’s a promising, if whimsical, piece of the renewable energy puzzle that might be missing from your mental […]
As Extreme Storms Wreck Power Grids, Japan Seeks Home Battery Networks
After recent typhoons ravaged Japan’s grid and disrupted power to almost 1.4 million customers, the government is encouraging homeowners to invest in storage systems, seeking to marry batteries with existing rooftop solar capacity to create backup electricity networks. The backbone would be the 2.3 million rooftop solar installations across the country that have been selling […]