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Thermal Energy Storage Is No Longer Just Hot Air

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Cheesecake is part of a cohort of companies trying to meet a growing need for alternative forms of energy storage. As countries transition away from fossil fuels to green sources of energy like wind and solar, there will be natural lulls in energy production due to weather conditions.

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Electrochemical energy storage startup SPARKZ licenses ORNL cobalt-free battery tech

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Stealth-mode electrochemical energy storage startup SPARKZ Inc. has exclusively licensed five battery technologies from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) designed to eliminate the use of cobalt metal in lithium-ion batteries. SPARKZ Inc. I look at this as a very strategic partnership.

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Hitachi, Mitsubishi Motors and ENGIE testing plug-in vehicles as renewable energy storage for office buildings

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Mitsubishi Motors and ENGIE are partnered in a project to explore the potential for electric vehicles to act as a means of energy storage for an office building. This energy can then be discharged back into the grid when appropriate. Hitachi Europe Ltd., Mitsubishi Motors is providing an Outlander PHEV SUV.

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ABB and BYD enter strategic global collaboration on energy storage

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announced today a strategic global collaboration to develop new solutions for energy storage, building on their complementary strengths. The scope of the collaboration focuses on the following applications: Grid-connected energy storage. Micro-grid applications. Solar energy. Solar energy.

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Why energy storage is key to decarbonising the smart homes of tomorrow

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In this article, Jordan Brompton, co-founder and CMO of myenergi, celebrates accelerating microgeneration installation rates and explains why energy storage is becoming an increasingly popular solution to maximise self-consumption.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. For the utilities, it promised an economical way of meeting rising demand for electricity. AC Propulsion’s experiment was timely.

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VW is testing a DC wallbox good for bi-directional charging, smart grid uses

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The automaker announced last week that it's testing a DC wallbox that allows electric cars to discharge power back into the grid. It also allows cars to serve as energy-storage units for. Volkswagen is the latest automaker to experiment with bi-directional charging.

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