Solar Energy Storage and Battery News

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.

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.

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 ...

Exeter City Council has actually taken an advance in creating its first solar-plus-storage farm, with job now underway at the site.

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.

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.

Gresham House Energy Storage Fund has actually obtained 41MW of energy storage in a ₤ 20.1 million transaction.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

In an update to a report it released earlier this year, Norway-headquartered consultancy DNV GL laid out the role it sees for both seasonal heat storage as well as pumped hydro to aid take care of the 1.4 TW of variable renewable resource capacity it forecasts to be connected to European electrical power grids by 2050. DNV GL maintains the initial report's verdict that where seasonal storage space is concerned, hydrogen will be the first option.

Utilities that are transitioning far from coal are beginning to see the development of a gas "bridge" to renewable resource as an unneeded step.

Gore Street has gotten an additional 131MW energy storage profile, including a functional portfolio of 81MW.