Solar Energy Storage and Battery News

Ecological power storage battery constructed from vanillin
Researchers at TU Graz have found a way to convert the fragrant substance vanillin right into a redox-active electrolyte product for liquid batteries. The modern technology is a crucial step in the direction of environmentally sustainable energy storage space
Oct 1, 2020 // Technology, Storage, TU Graz, Stefan Spirk, Redox flow
SolarEdge releases 3 phase inverters in the UK and also Ireland
SolarEdge is launching its future generation of commercial three phase inverters in the UK and also Ireland.
Oct 1, 2020 // Storage, Inverters, UK, Europe, SolarEdge
Global Energy Storage Capacity to Reach 741 GWh by 2030: WoodMac
A new report by Wood Mackenzie's has actually estimated that the global power storage space capacity additions might grow to get to 741 GWh of cumulative capacity by 2030.
Oct 1, 2020 // Storage, Market Research, Elon Musk, China, Europe, Asia, woodmac, Rory McCarthy, Le Xu
German solar battery maker sonnen expands ability as power aids end
German domestic solar battery manufacturer sonnen is expanding ability at its online in Wildpoldsried with need for residence storage space systems expected to grow as subsidy programs for providing eco-friendly power to the grid end.
Sep 29, 2020 // Storage, Germany, Europe, Sonnen, subsidy programs, Oliver Koch
Jena research study group provides unique approach to the storage of solar energy
Utilizing the power from the sunlight as successfully as nature does and also transforming it right into chemical energy might drastically lower worldwide CO2 emissions. A research team from the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (Leibniz IPHT) and also the Friedrich Schiller University Jena has actually now come one action more detailed to this vision.
Sep 28, 2020 // Technology, Storage, Germany, Europe, Leibniz IPHT, Martin Schulz
So Energy Solar System launches as business intends to 'go additionally'
Opposition distributor So Energy has introduced a solar as well as storage space offering called the So Energy Solar System.
Sep 25, 2020 // Storage, UK, Europe, So Energy, Simon Oscroft
'Every step' of lithium battery worth chain will certainly have a passion in recycling
It will certainly be in the rate of interests of more or less everybody associated with the "wider lithium-ion battery supply chain" to develop efficient reusing communities, according to an analyst with IHS Markit.
Sep 25, 2020 // Technology, Markets & Finance News, Storage, USA, IHS Markit, recycling, North America, Youmin Rong, startup, lithium battery, Chloe Holzinger, Kunal Phalpher, Li-Cycle
Mitsubishi Power working with US utility Entergy on hydrogen, batteries and also nuclear-plus-storage
Mitsubishi Power has authorized a joint development agreement to concentrate on decarbonising technologies with Entergy, a United States incorporated power and also utility firm offering just under 3 million clients throughout 4 US states.
Sep 25, 2020 // Technology, Markets & Finance News, Storage, USA, Japan, Asia, hydrogen, North America, Entergy, Mitsubishi Power, Paul Browning
What's required for a multi-gigawatt market to develop
A multi-gigawatt co-location market looks readied to take off within the next five years, nonetheless unpredictability over DC combining, the demand for expensive symmetrical grid connections and also outdated governing frameworks take the chance of preventing the marketplace's growth.
Sep 25, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Storage, Grids, USA, North America, Jenny Chase, dc coupling, balancing mechanism, grid connections, Corentin Baschet, Ben Irons
Can a Novel Zinc Battery Deliver Clean Multiday Backup Power?
California is checking Canadian start-up e-Zinc's long-duration modern technology to keep companies powered through wildfires and failures.
Sep 25, 2020 // Technology, Storage, California, USA, North America, startup, Zinc Battery, James Larsen
US as well as UK uncover lithium as IHS Markit projects battery rate to fall listed below $100/kWh.
The business knowledge firm has predicted storage space prices will certainly proceed their down trajectory on the back of item and also process optimization. That will favor a higher adoption price in auto as well as grid applications, the analysts claim. Somewhere else, explorations of lithium in the U.S. and also the U.K. have actually increased hopes for lower raw material prices and more supply chain variety.
Sep 24, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, USA, UK, Europe, North America, Youmin Rong, Sam Wilkinson
UK battery professional takes into consideration lithium-ion cell fab in Australia
' Lithium Valley', southern of Perth, is set for 2 new faces after U.K. battery maker Amte Power and also Perth-based facilities company Infranomics authorized an arrangement to discover the possibility of establishing lithium-ion cell production centers in the state of Western Australia.
Sep 24, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, Australia, Oceania, AMTE Power, Kevin Brundish, Infranomics, Cameron Edwards
An optimistic-- yet sensible-- point of view for sodium batteries
International researchers have evaluated the possibility of sodium-based power storage space and discovered current technical developments have gotten here faster than those for the lithium-ion batteries which have actually been researched for three decades. Issues continue to be, nonetheless, prior to sodium comprises a corresponding alternative to lithium.
Sep 24, 2020 // Technology, Storage, Spain, France, Germany, UK, Europe, Norway, sodium batteries
Bigger form factor cells, massive price reductions as well as elimination of cobalt use
Tesla organized its Battery Day the other day in California prior to a socially-distanced target market all beinged in different electric vehicles from the company's array and also disclosed its enthusiastic prepare for greater than halving the price of battery production.
Sep 23, 2020 // Storage, TESLA, Elon Musk
TVA will set up a 40-MWh lithium-ion energy storage system
The Tennessee Valley Authority will certainly be installing its first owned and run energy storage space system near a commercial complex in Vonore, Tennessee, about 35 miles southwest of Knoxville.
Sep 22, 2020 // Storage, USA, North America, Dale Harris, Dr. Joe Hoagland