Solar Energy Storage and Battery News

Dispersed power storage facilities in the US are readied to join wholesale markets and also complete to provide grid services after what's referred to as the "solitary crucial act" for the power shift until now.

United States energy firm PacifiCorp has launched its largest request for proposals for power projects yet, seeking bids for more than 1.8 GW of brand-new solar as well as 600MW of battery power storage.

Researchers have made a battery that can be straight butted in sunlight without needing an outside photovoltaic panel. Clever design of the battery electrodes assists in photo-rechargeable zinc-ion batteries that could locate applications as affordable tools for off-grid solar ranches.

The UK has a "huge" 61GW pipe of environment-friendly electricity projects with 18GW considered 'shovel-ready' according to new analysis from Regen.

Equatorial Power and SustainSolar are mounting containerized, off-grid solar battery power systems to support farming projects on an island in Lake Kivu.

Start-up Natron Energy is constructing a battery using Prussian blue analogue electrodes and also a sodium-ion electrolyte. Capitalists include ABB Technology Ventures, NanoDimension Capital, Volta Energy Technologies, Chevron, Khosla Ventures, and also Prelude Ventures.

More than a billion bucks in financing for power storage space research study, demo jobs and production has been accepted by a United States federal government subcommittee.

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.