Solar Energy Storage and Battery News

Sterling and Wilson has actually announced that its HES department has signed an EPC agreement to construct a solar plus battery storage crossbreed nuclear power plant in Niger.

TransAlta Renewables has introduced that its 10 MW WindCharger battery storage space project (WindCharger) started industrial procedure on October 15, 2020. WindCharger is Alberta's very first utility-scale, lithium-ion energy storage space project and makes use of Tesla Megapack technology.

Scientists at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linkoping University, have for the first time showed an organic battery. It is of a kind called a "redox flow battery", with a big capability that can be utilized to store energy from wind generators as well as solar cells, and also as a power bank for cars.

In a completely brand-new technique to making lithium-ion batteries lighter, more secure and also extra effective, researchers at Stanford University and also the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have reengineered among the heaviest battery elements - sheets of copper or aluminum foil known as present enthusiasts - so they evaluate 80% much less and promptly relieve any kind of fires that flare up.

Greenbacker Renewable Energy Company revealed today that on September 30, 2020, through a wholly-owned subsidiary, it bought the civil liberties to Rodeo Energy Storage LLC, a 10 MW/ 21.3 MWh portfolio of 20 behind-the-meter power storage systems, which were created and also will be created as well as operated by Stem, Inc. (" Stem"), the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI)- driven power storage solutions.

Effective picosecond generators are in need in different fields of speculative electrophysics to create ultrashort electron beams as well as X-ray pulses in vacuum cleaner diodes and to develop runaway electron flows in gases.

Products researchers Sungwon Lee and also Koteeswara Reddy Nandanapalli at the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) developed the manufacture process with colleagues in Korea. A trick for success is splashing a specific quantity of graphene ink onto flexible substratums at a certain angle and temperature.

New Mexico's biggest energy plans to create 950MW of solar and storage by 2022 as it departures the state's San Juan coal plant as well as eyes 100% emissions-free electrical power by 2040.

Siemens and also Macquarie Group have developed a brand-new joint venture that will develop distributed power sources such as solar as well as battery storage for US corporations as well as organizations.

The Government of Lithuania reportedly prepares to build one of the world's biggest battery parks as it separates from the Russian-controlled power grid.

UK mobile power business Aggreko plc (LON: AGK) has actually finished what it claims to be one of the greatest renewable resource microgrids worldwide, incorporating solar energy and power storage space at a golden goose in Western Australia.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) will certainly widen its mandate to check out the development of power storage and also hydrogen after safeguarding fresh funding.

Connected Energy is to mount a second life battery energy storage space system in Suffolk, its 2nd in the region.

Prime Planet Energy a JV of Toyota as well as Panasonic, has actually introduced it will certainly start production of prismatic lithium-ion batteries for hybrid cars in Japan

Eos Energy Storage LLC (" Eos"), a leading producer of safe, affordable as well as long-duration zinc battery storage space systems, today introduced a growth of its collaboration with Nayo Tropical Technology Ltd. (" Nayo"), a leading West African mini-grid design, purchase, as well as building and construction (" EPC") firm. Eos will certainly deploy additional systems of its signature Aurora EnergyBlock ™ systems, rated at 125kW/500kWh, to 4 country microgrid projects in Nigeria in the first quarter of 2021.