Solar Energy Storage and Battery News

PV mini-grid to back Congolese farming
Equatorial Power and SustainSolar are mounting containerized, off-grid solar battery power systems to support farming projects on an island in Lake Kivu.
Jul 9, 2020 // Storage, DR Congo, Equatorial Power, SustainSolar, Abishek Bharadwaj, John Fadiran
US sodium-ion battery programmer raises $35M as storage space financial investment surges
Start-up Natron Energy is constructing a battery using Prussian blue analogue electrodes and also a sodium-ion electrolyte. Capitalists include ABB Technology Ventures, NanoDimension Capital, Volta Energy Technologies, Chevron, Khosla Ventures, and also Prelude Ventures.
Jul 9, 2020 // Storage, USA, North America, Chevron, startup, Form Energy, QuantumScape, Natron Energy, ABB Technology Ventures, NanoDimension Capital, Volta Energy Technologies, Khosla Ventures, Prelude Ventures, Colin Wessells, Eos Energy Storage, Quidnet
US$ 1.3 bn financing package for storage R&D, demonstrators, making recommended
More than a billion bucks in financing for power storage space research study, demo jobs and production has been accepted by a United States federal government subcommittee.
Jul 8, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, Policy, USA, North America
Canberra project REVS up Australia's vehicle-to-grid readiness
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency is putting US$ 1.66 million into a vehicle-to-grid test to show how electrical automobiles can provide grid supplementary services. The REVS research study and also market consortium wishes to show how EVs can create income for fleet owners.
Jul 8, 2020 // Storage, Transport, Solar to Fuel, Australia, Oceania, ARENA, Darren Miller
Siemens Gamesa seeking nod for 7.5-MW solar-plus-storage project in Spain
Wind generator maker Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy SA (BME: SGRE) is seeking a permit to develop a 7.5-MW solar-plus-storage system on the Spanish island of Tenerife.
Jul 7, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Spain, Europe, solar-plus-storage, Siemens Gamesa
Australia's steel masters engineer 2 energy-storage breakthroughs
Energy storage space remains in high demand, to aid take care of an expanding proportion of renewable resource in worldwide electrical energy grids, to complimentary off-grid neighborhoods from the tyranny of diesel, and to make it possible for the aspirations of individuals not yet attached to a power supply. These 2 promising modern technologies have reached essential milestones ...
Jul 7, 2020 // Technology, Storage, Australia, Oceania, Guoxiu Wang, Kondo-Francois Aguey-Zinsou, Alan Yu
Exeter City Council's 1.2 MW solar site takes a step forwards
Exeter City Council has actually taken an advance in creating its first solar-plus-storage farm, with job now underway at the site.
Jul 7, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, storage, UK, Battery Storage, solar pv, Europe, net zero, Exeter City Council, Exeter
Solar farm fitted with batteries to fulfill grid output control needs browses the web in Japan
One of the first large-scale solar farms in Japan so far to be geared up with battery storage space in order to fulfill the demands of a neighborhood grid operator as well as energy, has been completed on the island of Hokkaido.
Jul 7, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Grids, Japan, Asia, sb energy, Alex O'Cinneide, HEPCO
There's something fishy about this flow battery development
Researchers led by MIT have suggested chitin, a carbon and also nitrogen-rich material made from waste shrimp coverings, might create sustainable electrodes for vanadium redox flow batteries as well as other energy storage innovations.
Jul 7, 2020 // Technology, Storage, USA, Massachusetts, MIT, North America, Francisco Martin-Martinez
Gresham House sprinkles ₤ 20.1 m on 41MW of functional storage
Gresham House Energy Storage Fund has actually obtained 41MW of energy storage in a ₤ 20.1 million transaction.
Jul 6, 2020 // Storage, UK, Europe, Gresham House, Arenko, Rupert Newland
Harmony Energy partners with FRV for utility-scale storage space project
Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV) and also Harmony Energy have signed up with pressures to commission their very first utility-scale battery system in the UK.
Jul 6, 2020 // Storage, TESLA, UK, Battery Storage, Europe, ai, Harmony Energy, software, Frv Fotowatio Renewable, Ventures, Tesla Megapack, Autobidder, Peter Kavanagh, Felipe Hernández
New Battery Electrolyte That can Boost Performance of EVs
A group of researchers has designed a new lithium-based electrolyte, that they show can pave the way for the future generation of battery-powered EVs
Jul 6, 2020 // Technology, Storage, battery, electric vehicles, Zhiao Yu, Yi Cui, electrolyte, EVs, Innovation, EV Battery, Battery Electrolyte EVs, Zhenan Bao
Hitachi-ABB Power Grids requisition can boost e-mobility and power storage
The Japanese brand name has closed the first $6.85 billion purchase cost for 80% of the Power Grids service that was had by ABB. The buyer will certainly have the alternative of acquiring the superior shares in 2023.
Jul 6, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, Japan, ABB, Europe, Asia, Hitachi
Mercedes Benz Acquires Stake in Battery Cell Manufacturer Farasis
Mercedes-Benz has developed a calculated collaboration with the Chinese battery cell supplier Farasis and also is also taking an equity risk in the company.
Jul 3, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, finance, EV, Mercedes-Benz, Battery Cell, EV Battery, Farasis, Markus Schäfer, Mercedes Benz Farasis
What's taking place worldwide of thermal power storage?
Can this modern technology be marketed? A collaboration in between Siemens Energy as well as EnergyNest to establish thermal storage options together is the most recent advancement in a sector with lots of capacity, but little practical application so far.
Jul 3, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, NREL, thermal storage, EnergyNest, Siemens Energy