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The British company, which has tested its liquid air energy storage technology in the U.K., says it is preparing to deploy its first plant on U.S. soil. Highview claims its CRYOBattery is half the price of utility scale lithium-ion storage.

Researchers from the two prestigious U.K. universities are analyzing spatiotemporal charge-carrier dynamics in the perovskite materials used for solar applications. They have discovered the carriers propagate ballistically over 150nm within 20fs of photon absorption.

UK battery storage firm Zenobe has secured £25 million in funding from Santander as it looks to continue its growth.

Southern Water has issued a request for information to source solar energy through bilateral power purchase agreements. The business is thinking about buying power from a blend of generation facilities.

Ada, an AI-driven robot, searches for new solar cell designs at the University of British Columbia.

The distribution system operator for southern and central Scotland says it wants to optimize onshore renewables potential with the addition of storage and solar into its clean electricity business. The company said hybrid projects combining wind, storage and solar will become the market standard in 2021.

Fotowatio has a 1.9 gigawatt green power portfolio. The developer declared its initial utility-scale battery storage venture to join a worldwide energy storage drive.

Washington State Ferries consumes as much fuel as a midsized airline.

Solarwatt and Keba offer a new charging system for solar-powered EV. The product is meant for the United Kingdom’s market.

An international research group achieved the result on a 9 sq mm, triple-cation based, n-i-p structured perovskite cell using low solar concentration levels. Device instability, however, remains a challenge.

A team of German scientists from HZB has performed a thorough research of methylammonium lead iodide structure. The crystal is among the most high-potential perovskites for solar cells. The researchers have discovered some properties, which are likely to help cope with the existing challenges and create cells that can boast both high efficiency and stability.

LSE-listed investment company NextEnergy Solar Fund has finished the construction of the first unsubsidized solar project in Great Britain.

The energy company insists it has the biggest battery network managed by VPP in the world.

Researchers have made a finding they say could vastly simplify and reduce the production cost of perovskite solar cells. Working with mixed halide perovskites, the group found a disordered chemical composition can improve device efficiency.

France-based EDF Group has acquired the British company Pivot Power. The UK firm has built the storage battery systems of 2 gigawatt power throughout Great Britain.