SCHMID Group Welcomes Prof. Dr. Ralf Lüdemann as New Leader of its Energy Storage Business Unit

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 [...]

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Global Markets, Trends and Practical Expertise, All at this Years Intersolar China Conference

November, 2012. Freiburg/Pforzheim, Germany, and Beijing, China. The Intersolar China Conference is taking place for the second time in the Intercontinental Hotel Beichen in Beijing from December 11–13, 2012. 500 national and international attendees as well as 60 speakers from around the world are expected to participate in the international industry event. Here, discussions cover current [...]

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Panasonic Regroups to Drive Renewable Energy Adoption in North America

FORTUNE BRAINSTORM GREEN CONFERENCE, LAGUNA NIGUEL, CA. Earlier this year at the FORTUNE Brainstorm Green Conference, Panasonic announced the establishment of Panasonic Eco Solutions North America, a new business unit of Panasonic Corporation of North America that will focus on the design, implementation and financing of renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in the U.S. [...]

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Conference Highlights Energy Storage, New Solar Technologies During Fifth Event in San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO, July 17, 2012. -SolarThermalMagazine.com Intersolar North America, the premier solar industry exhibition and conference in North America for solar professionals to exchange information and develop business opportunities in the U.S. solar market, concluded its fifth event in California, the largest solar market in the United States. This year’s exhibition and conference focused on [...]

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Storage is Missing Link in Modern CSP According to CSPToday Webinar

A recurring question from our audience related to the relationship between LCOE (levelized cost of energy) and installation cost / solar resources and technologies – is there a direct correlation?

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Panasonic Creates Beautiful Display with Solar Panels in Milan

Panasonic will present an energy cycle, comparing it to an ecological cycle that begins with photosynthesis, starting with energy creation (through solar panels), and continuing to energy storage (through storage batteries) and energy saving (through LED and organic LED lights), with each stage of the cycle being controlled by an energy management system.

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Noribachi Patents Hybrid Solar-Grid Power Management System

Noribachi, an LED and solar smart energy products company,  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 [...]

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Largest US CERTS-Based Micro-Grid Goes Live with BYD Environmentally-Friendly Batteries

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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FuelCell Energy Prices $30 Million Public Offering of Common Stock

DANBURY, Conn., Mar 22, 2012 – FuelCell Energy, Inc. FCEL 0.00% a leading manufacturer of ultra-clean, efficient and reliable fuel cell power plants, announced today that it has priced an underwritten public offering of 20,000,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $1.50 per share for gross proceeds of approximately [...]

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Batteries that can Store Three Times as much Energy

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, [...]

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Energy Storage Flywheel System Selected for City Energy Control Center

LOS ANGELES, California– VYCON, a designer and manufacturer of environmentally friendly, high-speed energy storage flywheel systems, today announced that Austin Energy ( www.austinenergy.com ), the nation’s ninth largest community-owned electric utility, has chosen to protect its new Control Center with clean backup power from VYCON. With 400,000 customers and a population of almost one million, [...]

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Hydrogen Filling Station Opens 150 Miles North of the Arctic Circle

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. [...]

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50 Megawatt Stationary Fuel Cell Project Announced

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 [...]

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