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Highview Power and Encore Renewable Energy to co-develop the first long-duration, liquid-air energy storage system in US

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Highview Power Storage, Inc., a provider of long duration energy storage 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 energy storage system.

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Australia clears the way for EVs to help save the grid with V2G this summer

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Australia has been struggling with grid issues for years as climate change continues to get worse, causing hot summers with rampant wildfires and commensurate power outages. In hot climates and hot seasons, electric grids get stressed both simply from the heat itself and due to higher usage of air conditioning.

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Rolls-Royce takes majority holding in power storage specialist Qinous; storage for microgrid activities

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Joint development work on a range of storage solutions in recent months has shown that the two companies are an excellent fit. Qinous delivers modular, scalable, prefabricated plug-and-play battery products that combine renewable energy sources, power generators and battery storage technology.

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Volkswagen commissions fast-charging park with 570 kWh of second-life MEB cell modules

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At the Zwickau vehicle plant, Volkswagen commissioned the first fast-charging park in Saxony supplied with energy largely from a power storage container (PSC). The PSC is an electricity storage unit and consists of 96 cell modules with a net capacity of 570 kWh. Residential areas are one example of where this could be used.

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New MIT metal-mesh membrane could solve longstanding problems with liquid metal displacement batteries; inexpensive grid power storage

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A battery, based on electrodes made of sodium and nickel chloride and using thea new type of metal mesh membrane, could be used for grid-scale installations to make intermittent power sources such as wind and solar capable of delivering reliable baseload electricity. Al 2 O 3 membrane. —David Sadoway.

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UNSW, H2Store to develop hydrogen storage for renewables; residential and commercial P2G

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million investment from Providence Asset Group to develop a hydrogen hydride storage system that could mean cheaper, safer storage for renewable energy for a range of applications, including residential. The team hopes to have a 5 kW home storage system prototype ready by the end of 2019 and a product on the market late in 2020.

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BMW Group plants stepping up activities in balancing-power market to contribute to grid stability

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Together with other highly-flexible controllable systems in the BMW Group production network, they will contribute to the stability of the public grid outside of the plant. Electricity generation from variable renewable electricity sources (VRE) such as wind and solar power has grown rapidly and is expected to continue to do so.

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