As the push to decarbonize buildings gains momentum, the simple concept of using ice to reduce AC use is becoming more appealing. You don’t need a battery to store energy. A class of technologies known as thermal storage can do the job too, and it even has some potential advantages over lithium-ion batteries. The long-overlooked […]
Installation of standalone energy storage facility will optimise substation space usage – EQ Mag Pro
INSTEAD of being traditionally installed within a district cooling plant, an ice thermal storage facility will be installed on its own at a substation at George Street in the Central Business District and outside a district cooling plant, said the Energy Market Authority (EMA) and SP Group on Monday. The installation will be part of […]
Can thermal storage fire up the net-zero transition? – EQ Mag Pro
After almost a decade in incubation, thermal energy storage is finally coming of age to play its long-fated role in the net-zero transition. At the beginning of July, the 13,000 residents of Kankaanpää, a remote town in south-west Finland, bore witness to what could be an important landmark in the global search for year-round green […]
E2S Power, India Power tie up for thermal storage facility in India – EQ Mag Pro
E2S Power and India Power have inked a pact to work on transforming fossil fuel power station into thermal storage systems for renewable energy in the country. Under the MoU, India Power and E2S Power will work with major companies in the power and renewable energy sector in India to identify, evaluate and offer optimized […]
Australian Govt Approves Funds For Solar Hydro Project
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), on behalf of the Australian Government, has approved $15 million in funding to RayGen Resources Pty Ltd (RayGen) to construct a ‘solar hydro’ power plant comprising 4MW of solar PV generation and 3MW/50MWh (17 hours) of dispatchable storage capacity in north-west Victoria. RayGen’s power plant consists of RayGen’s proprietary […]
Thermal Storage Test Milestone at the 700 MW DEWA CSP Plant
Shanghai Electric announced positive results of the first molten salt tank hydro test for the Parabolic Trough Plant-II which forms part of the 1GW Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park in Dubai. The test was carried out on May 9, and its success laid a crucial foundation for the next phase of the molten […]
Israel: EIB provides Brenmiller Energy with €7.5 million for innovative thermal storage factory
EIB finances Brenmiller Energy with €7.5 million in venture debt to enable the construction of a first-of-its-kind manufacturing plant for innovative thermal energy storage systems The loan is supported by the European Commission under Horizon 2020 and the InnovFin Energy Demonstration Projects facility Brenmiller Energy’s storage solution provides low-cost, easily scalable energy storage of more […]
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 […]