Solar Energy Storage and Battery News

Australia to host 600 MW battery
French renewable resource developer Neoen intends to create a large battery storage space system near the Australian city of Geelong that will certainly overshadow its biggest project to day, the 100MW/129MWh Tesla huge battery in South Australia.
Apr 7, 2020 // Storage, Australia, neoen, Oceania
Northern Territory goes big on battery storage
Batteries are becoming effective enablers of renewable resource as grids Australia large come to be tested by the high infiltration of renewable resource. The Northern Territory is buying battery storage space little and also huge, to catch the overflow of its extraordinary renewable energy and also reroute it for the advantage of customers.
Apr 6, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, Michael Gunner, Australia, Oceania, Coronavirus, covid-19
Solar automobile tarpaulin to reenergize EV batteries
French solar thin-film expert Armor has actually made a retracting automobile solar cover. It has actually released a first model on a Gazelle electrical cars and truck, yet it stated that the cover can be made use of on any kind of sort of electrical lorry.
Apr 6, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Storage, Transport, France, Europe, thin-film PV, EV batteries, Armor, Moïra Asses
New SunLogix Virginia stockroom supplies essential storage space ability for solar power sector
SunLogix reports it has actually gotten 500,000 square feet of warehousing room in Danville, Virginia. The storehouse offers added room on the East Coast for Safe Harbor storage space, long-lasting storage space as well as temporary room to keep solar energy devices in case of project hold-ups or various other factors.
Apr 6, 2020 // Storage, USA, Virginia, North America, SunLogix, David DesVerney
How much money can you make with PV-assisted EV charging stations?
A French-Turkish study group has actually developed a financial design to maximize organizing for solar-powered EV billing systems. The suggested version recommends that such projects could be a lot more rewarding today than at the end of the years, relying on a vast array of variables.
Apr 6, 2020 // Technology, Storage, Asia, Turkey, ev charging
Recalling over lithium
Currently in charge of altering the means we interact and also power mobile tools, lithium-ion innovation is currently driving transformations in both transportation and also power supply all over the world. A brand-new paper released by Arumugam Manthiram of the University of Texas at Austin checks out the innovation's growth, from first explorations made in the 1970s to the factors to consider these days's scientists dealing with the 'batteries of the future'.
Apr 6, 2020 // Technology, Storage, USA, lithium, North America, Arumugam Manthiram, John Goodenough
When we're socially distanced, it's an excellent suggestion to bill an EV with solar
Exists any type of great factor for placing solar on a Tesla Cybertruck? Or is it simply merit signaling? On the other hand, exactly how much are you driving tomorrow? Do you have variety anxiousness or simply basic anxiousness?
Apr 6, 2020 // Technology, Storage, USA, TESLA, Elon Musk, North America, Cybertruck
New york city's financial alleviation strategy to back 'quick change to tidy renewable resource'
Severely struck by the COVID-19 dilemma, New York State has actually decided to "drastically accelerate the siting as well as building of tidy power projects" as one aspect of its roadmap for financial return.
Apr 6, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Storage, Grids, USA, New York, North America, energy transition, covid-19, legislation, permitting, large-scale renewables, community benefit, clean energy targets, economic stimulus, employment, labour
Tesvolt begins business storage system manufacturing at gigafactory in spite of Covid-19
The German producer has actually begun to generate its initial business storage space systems at its brand-new plant under rigorous security preventative measures because of the recurring Covid-19 pandemic. The center's existing yearly capability is evaluated 255 MWh, yet the business intends to at some point increase that to 1 GWh.
Apr 3, 2020 // Storage, Germany, Europe, covid-19, Tesvolt, Daniel Hannemann, Simon Schandert
An all-organic proton battery stimulated for lasting power storage
Lasting power storage space remains in excellent need. Scientists at Uppsala University have actually as a result established an all-organic proton battery that can be butted in an issue of secs. The battery can be billed as well as released over 500 times with no considerable loss of ability. Their job has actually been released in the clinical journal Angewandte Chemie.
Apr 3, 2020 // Technology, Storage, Sweden, Europe, Uppsala University, Christian Strietzel
Neoen plugs in 140-MW solar park in El Salvador
France's Neoen SA (EPA: NEOEN) on Wednesday began business procedure of the 140-MW Capella Solar photovoltaic (PV) park in El Salvador, fulfilling the legal due date established for April 1, the firm's regional system revealed on Twitter.
Apr 2, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, France, El Salvador, Europe, neoen, North America
Carbon nanotubes lead the way for silicon in storage
Researchers in the United States have actually established a carbon nanotube approach of producing a lithium-ion battery with a silicon anode. The gadget apparently showed far better than 87% capability retention after 1,500 cycles. The designers claim their exploration gets over a number of the challenges to using silicon as an anode as well as might open making use of various other products for electrodes in lithium-ion gadgets
Apr 2, 2020 // Technology, Storage, USA, silicon, North America, lithium-ion battery, PNNL, Rice University, carbon nanotube method
EU study team consents to back questionable Spanish lithium mine
Australian business Infinity Lithium has actually authorized a memorandum of recognizing with the European Battery Alliance to advertise its lithium mine project in San José, Extremadura. It would certainly be the very first lithium project to get European funding however has actually currently increased the hackles of neighborhood ecologists and also locals.
Apr 2, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, Spain, Europe, Infinity Lithium, Diego Pavía
A Truly Green Electric Grid Will Need Very Big Batteries
It takes a great deal greater than simply solar farms and also wind generators. Keeping excess power is important for renewable resource to truly be renewable.
Apr 1, 2020 // Technology, Storage, USA, NASA, Australia, Oceania, North America, Sumitomo Electric, San Diego Gas & Electric, Vanadium, Maria Skyllas-Kazacos
Netherlands to sustain residential PV via web metering for the whole years
The Dutch federal government is intending to decrease tolls by 9% each year from 2023 to 2030. The strategy must still make sure a sensible repayment time for house owners going to go solar, according to the authorities.
Apr 1, 2020 // Residential, Markets & Finance News, Storage, Tariffs, Europe, Netherlands