Solar Energy Storage and Battery News

The sector requires to reduce a dependence on electric vehicle battery imports from China, according to the roadway transport preacher, who stated the government is wanting to support research study into alternatives to lithium-ion innovation.

Gore Street Energy Storage Fund has actually secured the bargain to obtain a 100% rate of interest in a 50MW energy storage system in Scotland.

The Essential Services Commission of South Australia has authorized strategies to expand the Tesla huge battery from 100 MW to 150 MW.

Researchers in the U.S. have established a brand-new cathode chemistry for lithium-sulfur batteries, which they say pledges to conquer performance problems originating from sulfur's reduced conductivity and also tendency to react with lithium.

Swedish business Azelio has become part of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Mexican, CITRUS JMK S.A DE C.V (CITRUS) to analyze power storage space for agricultural, mining, food as well as drink, tourism and also the oil & gas industry in Mexico, North as well as Central America.

Scientists at Switzerland's École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have established an anode from graphene doped with sodium, which they state could possibly overcome a few of the essential concerns in raising storage ability and the life time of sodium-ion batteries.

The world's largest liquid air storage website has taken an action forwards today, with the announcement of a ₤ 10 million grant from the UK federal government.

A team of Brown University researchers has actually discovered a method to double the durability of a ceramic product used to make solid-state lithium ion batteries. The approach, explained in the journal Matter, could be beneficial in bringing solid-state batteries to the mass market.

Electrification of the transport sector - among the largest customers of energy worldwide - is vital to future energy and also environmental durability. Electrification of this market will certainly require high-power fuel cells (either stand alone or combined with batteries) to promote the transition to electric cars, from automobiles and trucks to watercrafts and aircrafts.

Its brand-new line of residential crossbreed storage space systems integrates Kstar inverter technology with the lithium-ion storage modern technology of Chinese battery professional CATL.

Greenbacker Renewable Energy has actually acquired the civil liberties to a 7.9 MW/ 16.5 MWh profile of 16 operating as well as to-be-constructed power storage systems from Stem

Vattenfall is investing EUR50m in 2020-2021 in solar power and also energy storage projects that likewise promote regional eco-friendly systems as well as biodiversity.

US household solar company Sunrun is to aggregate 300 domestic solar-plus-storage installments into a solitary virtual power plant (VPP), declaring it to be one of the US' very first property VPPs.

This financial investment begins top of US$ 100 million invested in 2018. Equity capital and also corporate funding of brand-new power technologies proceeds regardless of-- or probably because of-- the pandemic.

The Conolophus job, to be built on Santa Cruz Island in Galapagos National Park, will certainly reduce regional diesel intake.