ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia researchers have developed a new family of liquid salt electrolytes, known as MetILs, that could lead to batteries able to cost-effectively store three times more energy than today’s batteries. The research, published in Dalton Transactions, might lead to devices that can help economically and reliably incorporate large-scale intermittent renewable energy sources, [...]
CALMAC, a leader in energy storage systems, today announced the installation of its IceBank(R) thermal energy storage tanks at the recently retrofitted Romeoville High School located near Chicago. School district officials worked with Trane, a leading global provider of indoor comfort systems and solutions and a brand of Ingersoll Rand, and Kenneth J. Kogut & [...]
H2 Logic A/S recently opened a hydrogen refueling station 150 meters north of the polar circle, at the Arctic Driving Centre in Finland. The station is based on H2Station® technology and provides 3 minutes fast fill of hydrogen at 700bar for fuel cell electric vehicles being tested by car manufacturers under extreme cold climate conditions. [...]
ClearEdge Power Signs Market-Defining $500 Million Multi-Phase Agreement to Deliver 50 Megawatts of Clean Energy to Gussing Renewable Energy When completed, agreement will be one of the largest ever in the stationary fuel cell industry ClearEdge Power, a manufacturer of scalable, continuous onsite power systems, today announced that Gussing Renewable Energy GmbH, a provider of [...]
2011 saw huge advances in solar, wind and other renewable energy sources, and these advancements will continue into 2012. In fact 2012 could be the year that renewable energy sources start to seriously compete with traditional fossil fuels, at least that is the hope in the battle to reduce carbon emissions and our dependence on [...]
Lithium Ion Battery Storage System Designed to Shift Peak Energy Load to Increase Reliability of the Electric Grid and Improve Power Quality A123 Systems AONE +1.24% , a developer and manufacturer of advanced Nanophosphate(R) lithium ion batteries and systems, announced this week that it will supply a Grid Battery System (GBS) to Maui Electric Company (MECO), [...]
Powin Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of Powin Corporation PWON 0.00% , has launched its new line of scalable and affordable energy storage solution products for the residential, commercial, industrial and utility markets. The company showcased its new proprietary energy storage system at EMEX, the nation’s largest trade show for emergency management personnel. This year’s [...]
Stabilizing, Strengthening and Transforming the Grid through Energy Storage January 10-12, 2012 in Phoenix, AZ This practical, hands-on event will enable delegates to discuss key challenges in new regulatory changes, issues with storage cost, new technologies and future of Smart Grid. This is a “must-attend” conference for industry leaders to gain a much stronger understanding [...]
Coupling Storage with High-efficiency Power Tower Technology Provides Cost-Competitive, Reliable and Dispatchable Solar Power during California’s Peak Demand Periods; Reduces Costs to California Ratepayers BrightSource Energy, Inc., a leading solar thermal technology company, today announced the addition of its SolarPLUSTM thermal energy storage capability to three of its power purchase agreements with Southern California Edison [...]
Work is continuing on developing storage technologies for renewable energy generated electricity from sources such as solar and wind. Innovations in storage such as high-speed flywheel, pneumatic, hydrogen and pumped storage are offering competition to the classic chemical battery. E. ON set up in Brandenburg Falkenhagen, a pilot plant for the conversion of electricity from [...]
Although energy storage solutions such as compressed air and pumped storage have been around for decades, they have not had significant success in the global market when compared to the substantial increase in grid capacity over the past 50 years. Now, however, energy storage on the grid is reaching a turning point. Numerous new technologies [...]
In a little more than a year, 34 corporate customers have installed, deployed or purchased more than 250 fuel cell power systems and hundreds of backup power units, totaling more than 30 MW of power, plus more than 1,000 fuel cell-powered forklifts. “The Business Case for Fuel Cells 2011: Energizing America’s Top Companies,” a new [...]
The Electricity Storage Association (ESA) fully supports advanced energy storage companies. These technologies provide frequency regulation to stabilize our electric grid, increase reliability of our system, and reduce the cost of electricity to consumers. Energy storage provides a resource-neutral ability to use energy when we need it at the price we want it. As we [...]