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 [...]
Ioxus, Inc., a manufacturer of premium performance ultracapacitor technology for transportation, alternative energy, medical, industrial and consumer product markets, today announced the unveiling of its first 16V/58F iMOD(TM) series of ultracapacitor modules that provides the high performance, high efficiency and high reliability the energy storage market needs as it continues to grow. In addition, the [...]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — As our nation moves toward a more robust and flexible electric power grid, energy storage is often cited as the solution to allow greater implementation of renewable and alternative energy sources. Researchers from around the world are gathering in San Diego, Calif., at the Electrical Energy Storage Applications and Technologies (EESAT 2011) [...]
MIT-led research demonstrates method that could allow inexpensive carbon materials to store the volatile gas at room temperature. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Hydrogen has long been considered a promising alternative to fossil fuels for powering cars, trucks and even homes. But one major obstacle has been finding lightweight, robust and inexpensive ways of storing the gas, [...]
This week Secretary Steven Chu joined with Saft America to announce the grand opening of the company’s Jacksonville, Florida, factory, which will produce advanced lithium-ion batteries to power electric vehicles and other applications. Saft America estimates it will create nearly 280 permanent jobs at the factory, and the city of Jacksonville expects an additional 800 [...]
ZBB Energy Corporation the leading developer of intelligent, renewable energy power platforms, announced this week a contract from a major utility to provide an energy system for use in a grid interactive (grid-tied) application utilizing the ZBB EnerSystem(TM) integrated power management and energy storage platform. A US investor-owned utility company has ordered the new ZBB EnerStore(TM) [...]
GS Battery (USA) Inc. has introduced its ECO R line of advanced storage batteries targeting the renewable energy market. The rapid growth of renewable energy contributing to the grid has highlighted the need for reliable energy storage solutions which maximize efficiencies and address the intermittency and variability for power generation common with wind and photovoltaic. [...]
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