UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Researchers at Penn State are looking at innovative ways to improve energy storage in an effort to better utilize renewable energy technologies.
“One of the primary obstacles…
SAN DIEGO – EDF Renewables North America and San Diego Zoo Global today announced the operation of a 1-megawatt (MW)/4-megawatt hour (MWh) battery storage facility located on San Diego Zoo’s property…
The Fluence-supplied battery system will make money via a new product that rewards high-speed frequency response.
The Republic of Ireland recently received its first grid-scale battery, which will…
Desperate times call for desperate measures. So Tanzania, where 80 percent of the population has no reliable access to electricity, is planning to import biomass as fuel from Ethiopia this year and…
Nexeon – the UK company developing silicon materials for next generation Li-ion batteries – has reached the halfway stage in its £10million SUNRISE project, and has already produced silicon
battery…
Energy storage is no longer an asset class that utilities can ignore.
One of the biggest criticisms of renewable energy has been its inherently intermittent nature. Solar energy plants don't produce…
Battery metal exploration and recycling company American Battery Metals is positive about the direction that the US is taking with regards to energy, with CEO Doug Cole saying on Monday that the…
DNV GL has released an updated version of its battery performance scorecard, which ranks and evaluates of different types of batteries used for energy storage.
The scorecard also provides industry…
As an increasing number of states focus on renewable energy, batteries are becoming more of a necessity. And according to a new report, battery costs are dropping—but not enough to compete with…
New blueprint for affordable, sustainable ‘flow batteries’ developed at Berkeley Lab could accelerate an electrical grid powered by the sun and wind
How do you store renewable energy so it’s there…
Kore Power to set up manufacturing hub in home market to augment a factory in China.
US company Kore Power is planning to build a lithium-ion battery manufacturing plant in its home country to…
Gaze across the Salton Sea, a sparkling oasis in the California desert, and you’ll see white plumes of steam rising against the hazy Chocolate Mountains.
The steam comes from 11 geothermal power…
Highview Power claims device will be Europe’s largest energy storage project.
British battery pioneers plan to build Europe’s largest energy storage project using a cryogenic battery that can store…
Lithium-carbon dioxide batteries are attractive energy storage systems because they have a specific energy density that is more than seven times greater than commonly used lithium-ion batteries.…
For a long time, there were two big knocks against solar power: It’s expensive, and it can’t keep the lights on after sundown.
A contract approved Tuesday by the Los Angeles Department of Water and…
The main solution to climate change is well known — stop burning fossil fuels. How to do this is more complicated, but as a scholar who does energy modeling, I and others see the outlines of a post-…
A key factor in boosting New Zealand’s renewable energy contribution to the electricity grid will be the storage options we pursue. Professor Alan Brent explains what they are – and where the big…