The SCHMID Group is pleased to announce the arrival of Prof. Dr. Ralf Lüdemann as a new member of the SCHMID Management Team. Starting from November, Ralf Lüdemann will lead the Energy Storage Business Unit and will play a major role as Advisor to the PV related business units. The Energy Storage Division, which was [...]
Interview with E. Caglan Kumbur, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Electrochemical Energy Systems Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics at Drexel University Energy storage technologies have the potential to improve grid efficiency and reliability by optimizing power flows and supporting variable power supplies. However, storage applications are often costly and don’t always produce achievable returns in [...]
AIKEN, S.C. Developments by hydrogen researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) are paving the way for the successful development of portable power systems with capacities that far exceed the best batteries available today. SRNL’s advances in the use of alane, a lightweight material for storing hydrogen, may be [...]
August 2012 The market for advanced batteries for utility-scale energy storage faces an array of challenges. Costs are high compared to traditional power generation resources; the regulatory environment remains ambiguous; no single optimal technology has emerged; and advances in grid infrastructure equipment, such as smart inverters, could accomplish many of the same objectives as advanced [...]
The University of Leeds and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have teamed up to create a joint research institute to develop next generation energy storage systems. Finding more effective and efficient ways to store energy is becoming increasingly important to deal with the problem of peak demand on electricity grids. The ability to store excess [...]
David L. Chandler, MIT News Office A molecule of fulvalene diruthenium, seen in diagram, changes its configuration when it absorbs heat, and later releases heat when it snaps back to its original shape. Broadly speaking, there have been two approaches to capturing the sun’s energy: photovoltaics, which turn the sunlight into electricity, or solar-thermal systems, [...]
GRENOBLE, France, July 23, 2012. www.Solarthermalmagazine.com McPhy Energy, a leading developer and manufacturer of solid state hydrogen storage, today announced that the Company as part of a consortium of 7 partners has successfully kicked off the INGRID project, a major R&D and demonstration project with an overall budget of 23.9M Euros. The project will be [...]
MUNICH, Jun 13, 2012. Solar PV energy storage. Saft, the world’s leading designer and manufacturer of high-technology batteries for industry, is presenting its broad portfolio of smart lithium-ion (Li-ion) energy storage solutions at Intersolar 2012. Visitors to Booth 271 in Hall B3 can see how effective solar energy storage at every level from megawatts (MW) [...]
GE’s Energy Storage business, a unit of GE Transportation, recently signed a Business Cooperation Agreement with Arista Power, Inc. to jointly promote and market Arista’s new Power on Demand System that will incorporate GE’s new Durathon(TM) Batteries. Arista Power, a manufacturer, designer and integrator of renewable energy generation, management and distribution systems, has selected GE’s [...]
–Ultracapacitor Sales Up 3%; Total Revenue Up 11% vs. Maxwell Technologies, Inc. MXWL -39.24% today reported revenue of $39.2 million for its first quarter ended March 31, 2012, up 11 percent over the $35.3 million recorded in the same period in 2011. Ultracapacitor revenue increased by 3 percent, to $22.0 million in Q112 compared with [...]
In a newly released report Storage Annual 2012: More in Store, the PHOTON Consulting team forecasts that the storage sector is poised for a period of rapid growth in the next five years.
Noribachi, an LED and solar smart energy products company, Â has announced the issue of U.S. Patent 8,138,630 for a proprietary hybrid solar-grid power management system. Noribachi has developed and now patented a complex control system designed to regulate power supply between photovoltaic batteries, traditional grid energy and end use electronic applications. This system can be [...]
ALAMEDA, Calif., Mar 22, 2012. – At a press conference today in Alameda County’s Santa Rita Jail, Chevron Energy Solutions demonstrated the largest CERTS-based (Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions) micro-grid in the United States. The Alameda County Smart Grid Project was designed and constructed by Chevron Energy Solutions integrating 4 mega-watt-hours (MWh) of BYD [...]
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