Solar Energy Storage and Battery News

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years, nonetheless unpredictability over DC combining, the demand for expensive symmetrical grid connections and also outdated governing frameworks take the chance of preventing the marketplace's growth.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
Iberdrola sets up eco-friendly hydrogen device
The Spanish power business, which has hydrogen projects under way in its homeland and also the United Kingdom, says it will allocate new resources to place itself at the leading edge of the supply of renewables-powered hydrogen.
Sep 22, 2020 // Storage, Solar to Fuel, Spain, Iberdrola, Europe, hydrogen, Ignacio Galán
Best membrane for vanadium redox flow batteries
A new research paper takes a look at the membrane layers used for applications in vanadium redox flow batteries. It outlines various membrane layer modern technologies as well as the obstacles to bringing batteries to mass production.
Sep 22, 2020 // Technology, Storage, Europe, Netherlands, vanadium redox flow batteries
Juwi signs PPA for 175MW solar project with 25MW of battery storage in Colorado
The US unit of German developer and EPC provider juwi has actually inked a power purchase arrangement (PPA) with Colorado Springs Utilities for a 175MW solar project paired with a 25MW battery storage system.
Sep 21, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Storage, USA, PPA, Colorado, solar-plus-storage, power purchase agreement, North America, Colorado Springs Utilities, juwi, us utility, Jill Gaebler
Australian-designed storage system spells grid independence
" We've put together the most effective components to make a special Australian-designed solution that is compliant to the new battery criteria," states EVO Power Managing Director Jamie Allen. Offgrid or upmarket-- simply include solar.
Sep 21, 2020 // Technology, Residential, Markets & Finance News, Storage, LG CHEM, Australia, Oceania, Jamie Allen, Andrew Mears
Solar-powered unmanned aircraft with lithium-sulfur battery
The Korea Aerospace Research Institute has actually carried out a battery-powered test flight of solar-powered unmanned airborne vehicle EAV-3. The airplane is powered by solar cells on its wings and body and also an LG Chem lithium-sulfur battery.
Sep 18, 2020 // Technology, Storage, Transport, LG CHEM, South Korea, Asia, lithium-sulfur battery