Solar Energy Storage and Battery News

Blue Planet Energy launches brand-new Blue Ion HI stackable lithium battery system
Blue Planet Energy has actually released a new energy storage system, the Blue Ion HI. The stackable, maintenance-free lithium system is backed by a 15-year performance service warranty to ensure dependable power delivery, day or evening, on or off grid.
Mar 25, 2021 // Storage, lithium battery, Blue Planet Energy, Jeff Richardson, Michael Menendez
AGL Introduces Building of Grid-Scale Battery, Takes FID on 250 MW Project
Australia based incorporated crucial provider AGL energy has actually revealed that the construction of a 250 megawatt (MW), one-hour period grid-scale battery at Torrens Island will certainly begin this year, following AGL's last financial investment choice (FID) on the project.
Mar 25, 2021 // Storage, Australia, Oceania, Markus Brokhof, Brett Redman, AGL Energy Battery Storage, Grid-Scale battery
Scottish Renewables asks for energy storage 'rate flooring'
Report with hydropower manufacturers recommends presenting funding device to sustain capacity
Mar 24, 2021 // Storage, UK, Europe, Cara Dalziel, Simon Hamlyn, Drax Group
Big innovation for 'massless' energy storage
Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology have actually created a structural battery that carries out ten times better than all previous variations. It includes carbon fiber that offers at the same time as an electrode, conductor, and also load-bearing product. Their most recent research study innovation leads the way for basically 'massless' energy storage in lorries and also various other technology.
Mar 24, 2021 // Technology, Storage, Sweden, Europe, Chalmers University of Technology, Leif Asp
Study reveals plunge in lithium-ion battery prices
The price of the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries utilized for phones, laptops, and also cars has actually fallen drastically over the last 3 decades, and has been a significant vehicle driver of the fast growth of those innovations. Yet attempting to measure that price decrease has created uncertain and contradictory outcomes that have hindered attempts to project the innovation's future or develop beneficial plans and research study top priorities.
Mar 24, 2021 // Technology, Storage, Lithium-ion batteries, Jessika Trancik, MIT, lithium-ion, Micah Ziegler
Pacific Green enters into arrangement to develop 1.1 GW of UK battery storage
International cleantech company Pacific Green has actually signed an exclusivity contract to develop as much as 1.1 GW of battery energy storage space systems (BESS) in the UK sourced by TUPA Energy.
Mar 23, 2021 // Storage, UK, Europe, BESS, Pacific Green, Tupa Energy, Chris Atherton, Scott Poulter
European storage market 'set to double in 2021'
Grid secondary services in markets including the UK, Italy as well as Nordics are driving growth, states report from EASE
Mar 23, 2021 // Storage, Sweden, UK, Italy, Europe, Norway, EASE, Jon Ferris
DOE Introduces $24.5 Million for Production Flow Batteries and Resilient Electric Grids
The USA Department of Energy (DOE) has actually introduced USD 24.5 million to sustain production of resilient, modern-day electricity framework, flow battery systems, and to attend to the climate emergency.
Mar 22, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, Grids, USA, North America, US DOE, Flow battery system, resilient electricity, Diana DeGette
Building and construction begins on Australia's 'largest' hybrid solar and battery energy storage space system
Building and construction has begun on what asserts to be Australia's largest crossbreed solar as well as battery energy storage facility.
Mar 22, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, Australia, solar-plus-storage, Oceania, new south wales, UPC Renewables, elecnor, australia solar, ayala, solar hybrid
Is it worth purchasing solar PV with batteries in your home?
Solar energy is a tidy, renewable source of power that could potentially play a significant component in fulfilling the globe's energy demands, however there are still some challenges to totally capitalizing on this capacity. Researchers checked out some of the problems that interfere with the uptake of solar energy and also proposed different policies to encourage the use of this modern technology.
Mar 22, 2021 // Storage, Europe, Austria, Behnam Zakeri
Sunlight Financial protects 2B in solar funding through increased collaboration with Tech CU
Sunlight Financial has actually revealed that Tech CU, a Silicon Valley-based lending institution, has dedicated to money an additional virtually $2.5 billion in property solar and storage space systems sold and also installed by Sunlight partners over the following three years, broadening upon a long-lasting collaboration in between Sunlight and Tech CU that started in 2015.
Mar 22, 2021 // Residential, Markets & Finance News, Storage, USA, New York, North America, Tech CU, Matt Potere, Sunlight Financial, Todd Harris
Gresham House's 30MW/30MWh Byers Brae battery storage system energised on schedule
Gresham House's 30MW/30MWh Byers Brae battery storage space project has been energised by Greek firm MYTILINEOS.
Mar 18, 2021 // Storage, UK, Europe, Gresham House
Noon Energy's Breakthrough Renewable Energy Storage Space Modern Technology Lands $3M Seed Investment
Noon Energy Inc., designer of an advanced ultra-low-cost battery technology for long-duration energy storage, shut a $3 million Seed phase investment. Prime Impact Fund led the round as well as was joined by At One Ventures, Collaborative Fund, as well as Xplorer Capital.
Mar 17, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, SunPower, Renewable Energy, Collaborative Fund, Dick Swanson, Noon Energy, storage technology, Xplorer Capital
Wärtsilä to supply energy storage space for two projects in Texas, United States
Wärtsilä has safeguarded an order from Able Grid Energy Solutions to provide as well as preserve energy storage space systems for 2 projects in southerly Texas, US.
Mar 17, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Storage, USA, North America, Wärtsilä, Risto Paldanius, Sharon Greenberg, Able Grid Energy Solutions
Europe To Come to be Globe's Secondly Largest Li-ion Battery Producer By 2025
Europe is good to go to come to be the world's second-largest maker of lithium-ion battery cell by 2025, claimed a European Commission (EC) vice-president, although some crucial obstacles need to be dealt with.
Mar 16, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, Europe, EC Vice President, Energy Storage Europe, European Comission, Li-ion Battery Manufacture, Maroš Šefčovič