This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has begun work on the GridStorage Launchpad (GSL), a $75-million facility located at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington that will boost clean energy adaptation and accelerate the development and deployment of long-duration, low-cost gridenergystorage.
Northvolt and Mälarenergi are partnering to establish a battery energystorage system at an electric vehicle charging station in Västerås, Sweden. The battery system will provide power output up to 220 kW and a usable energy capacity of 320 kWh. —Emad Zand, President Energy Solutions, Northvolt.
The US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has selected 19 new projects to receive a total of $43 million to develop breakthrough energystorage technologies and support promising small businesses. Advanced Management And Protection Of Energy-Storage Devices (AMPED).
Highview Power Storage, Inc., a provider of long duration energystorage solutions, and Encore Renewable Energy, a developer of renewable energy generation and storage projects, jointly announced plans to develop the United States’ first long-duration, liquid-air energystorage system.
Hydro-Québec has launched EVLO EnergyStorage Inc. EVLO ), a subsidiary that designs, sells, and operates safe, efficient and sustainable energystorage systems. EVLO systems also include power control and energy management software. Energystorage will play a crucial role in the energy transition.
A plot of ESOI for 7 potential grid-scale energystorage technologies. Benson from Stanford University and Stanford’s Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) has quantified the energetic costs of 7 different grid-scale energystorage technologies over time. Credit: Barnhart and Benson, 2013.
Toshiba Corporation has delivered battery energystorage systems integrating the company’s SCiB Li-ion battery ( earlier post ) to Kyushu Electric Power Co., for a demonstration project to expand introduction of renewable energy sources on remote islands. The demonstration program will run for three years to fiscal 2016.
Hydro-Québec and Sony Corporation will establish a joint venture to research and develop a large-scale energystorage system for power grids. Furthermore, the energystorage system for such power supplies must be highly safe and reliable due to the need for an efficient and stable source of high capacity power.
BASF Battery Materials will discuss its latest improvements in Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) battery technology for gridenergystorage applications at the 8 th International Renewable EnergyStorage Conference and Exhibition (IRES 2013), being held 18-20 November 2013 in Berlin, Germany.
(MHI), jointly with SSE plc (formerly Scottish and Southern Energy plc), will begin an energystorage system demonstration project using the power grid in the UK’s Orkney Islands, which has a high proportion of renewable energy generation in relation to demand.
Northvolt and Vattenfall have launched of a new battery energystorage solution, Voltpack Mobile System—a rugged, highly modular lithium-ion battery system envisioned as a zero-emission alternative to replace diesel generators. —Torbjörn Johansson, head of Vattenfall Network Solutions Sweden.
Researchers from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have designed a new lithium/polysulfide (Li/PS) semi-liquid (flow) battery for large-scale energystorage, with lithium polysulfide (Li 2 S 8 ) in ether solvent as a catholyte and metallic lithium as an anode.
SolarEdge Technologies and SolarEdge’s subsidiary, Kokam Limited Company, a provider of lithium-ion batteries and integrated energystorage solutions, announced the opening of “Sella 2”, a two gigawatt-hour (GWh) battery cell manufacturing facility.
Researchers led by the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have extended the capacity and duration of sodium-aluminum batteries. Sodium and aluminum are a natural combination of inexpensive, abundant elements as a redox pair for battery energystorage. of peak charge capacity. —Weller et al.
Stealth-mode electrochemical energystorage 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.
The falling cost of batteries is set to drive a boom in the installation of energystorage systems around the world in the years from now to 2040, according to the latest annual forecast from research company Bloomberg NEF (BNEF). The global energystorage market will grow to a cumulative 942GW/2,857GWh by 2040, attracting $1.2
Skeleton Technologies, a developer of curved graphene-based supercapacitor and battery energystorage, officially launched its SuperBattery ( earlier post ), and announced Shell as a partner. Skeleton goes after the high-power part of the energystorage market and we estimate the addressable market size to be €95 billion.
Energystorage installations around the world will multiply exponentially, from a modest 9GW/17GWh deployed as of 2018 to 1,095GW/2,850GWh by 2040, according to the latest forecast from research company BloombergNEF (BNEF). Global cumulative energystorage installations. Source: BloombergNEF.
million in matching grants from the state’s new Clean Energy Fund to lead energystorage projects with ties to federally funded research at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). The total cost for the three smart grid demonstration projects is $35.3 MWh lithium-ion battery system.
Mercom Capital Group, a global clean energy research and communications firm, released its report on funding and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in 2022 for the energystorage, smart grid, and energy efficiency sectors. Corporate funding for energystorage, smart grid, and energy efficiency companies.
This collaboration grants AMTE Power a license to manufacture and sell sodium-ion cells (to be incorporated into battery packs) for EnergyStorage Solutions (ESS) for defined fields of use and geographies. AMTE Power has branded its sodium-ion product “Ultra Safe” due to its improved safety and enhanced thermal stability.
Southern California Edison (SCE) opened the largest battery energystorage project in North America—the Tehachapi EnergyStorage Project—to modernize the grid to integrate more clean energy. It will also help us to gain a better understanding of the value and benefit of battery energystorage.
Scientists at USC have developed a novel water-based Organic Redox Flow Battery (ORBAT) for lower cost, long lasting large-scale energystorage. Since grid-scale electrical energystorage requires hundreds of gigawatt-hours to be stored, the batteries for this application must be inexpensive, robust, safe and sustainable.
Jaguar Land Rover has partnered with Pramac , a global leader in the energy sector, to develop a portable zero-emission energystorage unit powered by second-life Jaguar I-PACE batteries.
EPIC funds are competitively awarded to support the most promising technologies and approaches across six investment areas: the entrepreneurial ecosystem; resilience and safety; building decarbonization; grid decarbonization and decentralization; industrial and agricultural innovation; and low-carbon transportation.
Energystorage installations around the world are projected to reach a cumulative 411 GW (or 1,194 GWh) by the end of 2030, according to the latest forecast from research company BloombergNEF (BNEF). That is 15 times the 27GW/56GWh of storage that was online at the end of 2021.
ion Ventures, a modern utility and energystorage infrastructure specialist, and LiNa Energy , a solid-state battery technology developer, concluded their first successful trial of LiNa’s proprietary solid-state sodium-nickel battery platform at an undisclosed location in South East England last week.
Toshiba Corporation will supply the battery for the United Kingdom’s first 2MW scale lithium-titanate battery based EnergyStorage System (ESS) to support grid management. The ESS will be connected to the 11kV grid at Western Power Distribution’s Willenhall primary substation, near Wolverhampton in the West Midlands.
Scheme of the semi-solid flow cell (SSFC) system using flowing lithium-ion cathode and anode suspensions. Even the highest energy density lithiumion cells currently available, e.g., 2.8–2.9 Even the highest energy density lithiumion cells currently available, e.g., 2.8–2.9
Researchers at WMG, University of Warwick, have repurposed end-of-life electric vehicle batteries as small energystorage systems (ESS) for off-grid locations in developing countries or isolated communities. These challenges include: How to protect the lithium-ion cells from over-charge and discharge.
Faradion’s sodium-ion technology provides similar performance to conventional chemistries, while replacing expensive materials such as cobalt and lithium with far more abundant sodium. Unlike lithium-ion batteries, Faradion’s sodium-ion batteries have exceptional thermal stability and safety.
Yi Cui has developed nanoparticle copper hexacyanoferrate (CuHCF) battery cathode materials that demonstrate long cycle life and high power for use in gridstorage applications. Short-term transients, including those related to wind and solar sources, present challenges to the electrical grid. A team at Stanford led by Prof.
A123 Energy Solutions will supply, install, and commission a 1MW, 2.8MWh GridStorage Solution (GSS) system for IHI Corporation. The GSS will utilize the company’s Long Duration Grid Battery System (GBS-LD), a standard but flexible gridenergystorage unit accommodating configurations that range from 100kW to 4MW.
JERA, the largest power generation company in Japan, responsible for about 30% of Japan’s electricity, and Toyota Motor have built and deployed the first large-capacity “Sweep EnergyStorage System”. The project plans to operate gridstorage batteries for recharge and discharge operations, connected to the Chubu Electric Power Grid Co.,
Critically, Natron’s sodium-ion batteries do not contain lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper, or other minerals that have driven recent pricing volatility of the lithium-ion supply chain. Future applications may also include electric vehicles and gridenergystorage.
Having crossed some technical hurdles, low cost sodium batteries are hurtling towards the market for gridenergystorage, EVs, and more. The post Sodium Batteries Challenge Lithium-Ion On Cost, Supply Chain appeared first on CleanTechnica.
Daimler is entering the commercial and residential stationary energystorage system (ESS) market with its wholly-owned subsidiary Deutsche ACCUmotive. Daimler’s first industrial-scale lithium-ion unit is already on the grid and is being operated by the partner companies The Mobility House AG and GETEC Energie AG.
A robust performance is maintained even after 1000 cycles and 80% capacity, the point at which rival lithium-ion fast charging technologies start to rapidly deteriorate in performance.
The Mobile Power Station (MPS) is the first zero-emission modular platform that functions as both a multi-purpose off-road work vehicle and offers a grid-scale auxiliary power supply. can provide up to a half Megawatt of energystorage in its high-capacity BMW lithium-ion battery packs. The DANNAR 4.00
The new technology could enable advances in battery materials science, flexible battery charging rates, thermal and electrical engineering of new battery materials/technology and has the potential to help the design of energystorage systems for high performance applications.
The ultimate aim of the research is to facilitate improvements in batteries used for transport and other applications such as gridstorage with improved performance and cost characteristics. Next generation lithiumion cathode materials. In this critical area, the Faraday Institution is funding two project consortia.
China dominates BloombergNEF’s (BNEF) lithium-ion battery supply chain ranking in 2020, having quickly surpassed Japan and Korea that were leaders for the majority of the previous decade. —James Frith, BNEF’s head of energystorage.
South 8 will leverage the funding to accelerate the commercialization of its patented Liquefied Gas Electrolyte (LiGas) technology for high-performance batteries for electric vehicle, gridstorage, aerospace, and defense applications. ?
If unaddressed, the lack of domestic mining, processing, and recycling capacity will hinder clean energy and transportation development and adoption, leaving the nation dependent on unreliable foreign supply chains, the DOE said. MW-Scale Swappable and Reusable Second-Use EV Battery EnergyStorage Unit for Maximum Cost-Effectiveness.
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 5,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
Let's personalize your content