Analysis: Energy storage not ready for mass use Washington, 24 April (Argus) — Regulators and electricity market participants increasingly talk up the value and importance of energy storage technologies for renewable energy generation in key US power markets, but greater commercial application still appears to be years away. California state utility regulators have set a … Continue reading Analysis: Energy storage not ready for mass use
Tesla to unveil not one, but two new battery products next week The wait is almost over. The industry will finally be able to get a closer look at Tesla’s much-hyped battery storage product (or should I say products?) on April 30. Let’s start with the home battery — a solution that has the potential … Continue reading #Tesla to unveil not one, but two new battery products next week
Sumitomo Corporation Invests in Battery Energy Storage Project to Help Balance Electricity Grid Serving Northeastern U.S. NEW YORK, April 21, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Sumitomo Corporation together with Sumitomo Corporation of Americas (collectively “Sumitomo Corporation Group”) announced their investment in an innovative battery power storage system which will provide a reliable and stable supply-demand balancing service … Continue reading Sumitomo Corporation Invests in Battery Energy Storage Project to Help Balance Electricity Grid Serving Northeastern U.S.
Storing Energy by Making Ice How does the Ice Bear work and what does a typical installation look like? What are the benefits for the utilities vs. the building owners where Ice Bears will be installed? The Ice Bear works by freezing regular tap water at night when temperatures, energy costs and demand for power … Continue reading Storing Energy by Making Ice
Follow the big financiers: Solar and batteries are coming In 2014, a chorus of analyses from major financial institutions—including Bank of America, Barclays, Citigroup, Fitch Ratings, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and UBS—found that solar-plus-battery systems pose a real and present threat to traditional utility business models. Many of them directly cited RMI’s report The Economics … Continue reading Follow the big financiers: Solar and #batteries are coming
Experts: Powering your home with batteries is going to get cheaper and cheaper In the past few weeks, there’s been a battery of new studies on batteries. Not the kind in your cellphone, but a much more revolutionary make – the kind that is already powering many cars, and that might someday help power your … Continue reading Experts: Powering your home with #batteries is going to get cheaper and cheaper
Wall Street’s grid agreement: solar and batteries are coming In 2014, a chorus of analyses from major financial institutions – including Bank of America, Barclays, Citigroup, Fitch Ratings, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and UBS – found that solar-plus-battery systems pose a real and present threat to traditional utility business models. Many of them directly cited … Continue reading Wall Street’s grid agreement: solar and batteries are coming
Why Today’s Grid Storage Business Models Are Subject to Change Controlling and optimizing grid-tied and behind-the-meter batteries is already a complicated business. But it’s going to get a lot more complicated in the years to come, both for utility-facing storage integrators like S&C Electric Company, AES Energy Storage and NEC/A123, and for customer-facing behind-the-meter storage … Continue reading Why Today’s Grid Storage Business Models Are Subject to Change
New material could boost batteries’ power, help power plants You’re going to have to think very small to understand something that has the potential to be very big. A team of researchers, including Kyle Brinkman of Clemson University, developed a material that acts as a superhighway for ions. The material could make batteries more powerful, … Continue reading New material could boost batteries’ power, help power plants
Clean Energy Revolution Is Ahead of Schedule The most important piece of news on the energy front isn’t the plunge in oil prices, but the progress that is being made in battery technology. A new study in Nature Climate Change, by Bjorn Nykvist and Mans Nilsson of the Stockholm Environment Institute, shows that electric vehicle … Continue reading Clean Energy Revolution Is Ahead of Schedule
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