Solar Energy Storage and Battery News

Panasonic puts on hold operate at Tesla's Nevada fab as carmaker's California as well as New York gigafactories time out
Tesla's Nevada procedure is still open for company, however. The EV as well as battery manufacturer has actually ensured the marketplace its money placement is solid sufficient to weather an "prolonged duration of unpredictability".
Mar 23, 2020 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, Storage, California, USA, New York, TESLA, Elon Musk, China, Nevada, Panasonic, Asia, North America
ARENA increases moneying for RayGen's "solar hydro" nuclear power plant
The Australian Government and also the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) are readied to money RayGen Resources Pty Ltd (RayGen) to the tune of $3 million towards an usefulness research study for a 4 MW "solar hydro" nuclear power plant in north-western Victoria.
Mar 20, 2020 // Technology, Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Storage, Australia, pv power plants, Oceania, ARENA, RayGen, Richard Payne, Angus Taylor
Lacuna Raises $50 Mn for Investment in Solar and Storage Development Projects
Lacuna Sustainable Investments has actually revealed that it has actually effectively elevated USD 50 million for financial investment in development-stage solar as well as storage space projects.
Mar 19, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Storage, International, Lacuna, David Riester, Patrick McConnell
More affordable circulation batteries with brand-new membrane layer
United States researchers assert to have actually uncovered a membrane layer which might result in more affordable huge range circulation batteries. The product is an ion-selective, aqueous-compatible polymer with innate microporosity called AquaPIM and also is claimed to have tunable density and also high conductivity in liquid electrolytes.
Mar 16, 2020 // Technology, Storage, USA, North America, AquaPIM
Hydrogen is the very first practical choice for seasonal storage space
Pressed hydrogen is "the initial practical alternative" to aid satisfy winter electrical power need in a high-renewables grid, claims DNV GL.
Mar 16, 2020 // Technology, Storage, USA, hydrogen, North America, DNV GL
IESA, C-MET Conducted India's first Li-Ion Cell Manufacture, Battery Screening Workshop
With a goal to start the procedure of beginning Li-Ion battery production in the nation, India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA), India's among the leading partnership on power storage space as well as e-mobility, collectively with Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology (C-MET) has actually arranged India's very first 2-day training workshop for Lithium Ion (Li-Ion) cell manufacture as well as battery screening in Pune.
Mar 13, 2020 // Storage, India, Asia, Li-ion, Bharat Kale, Rahul Walawalkar, Satyajit Phadke
Total to Establish 25 MWh Battery Power Storage Space Project in France
Total has actually revealed that it has actually released a battery power storage space project with a storage space capability of 25 MWh, which will certainly be the biggest in France.
Mar 13, 2020 // Storage, France, Europe, Total, International, Patrick Pouyanné
Two significant solar-plus-storage projects green-lit in Australia's New South Wales
Programmers of 2 considerable solar-plus-storage projects in the Australian state of New South Wales have actually been given the go-ahead, with only small problems contributed to their propositions.
Mar 11, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Australia, solar-plus-storage, Oceania, new south wales, lithium-ion, upc, wollar solar development, approvals, permits
Renewable-powered hydrogen for Oman
Belgian designer DEME is preparing approximately 500 MW of hydrogen manufacturing capability at the port of Dumq, which is abundant in solar as well as wind power sources. The designer prepares to deliver hydrogen from the port to Europe.
Mar 5, 2020 // Storage, Solar to Fuel, Europe, Asia, hydrogen, Oman, DEME
The unclear influence of battery storage space on discharges
UNITED STATE scientists have actually checked out whether power storage space implementation might in fact increase greenhouse gas discharges in the short-term in some power markets. The truth the existing literary works thinks about just the send off of power from storage space centers in the present fossil fuel-renewables power mix, however, can downplay the long-lasting discharges decrease advantages of such centers.
Mar 5, 2020 // Storage, USA, North America
Reviewing battery chemistries for grid-level storage space
Scientists in China have actually rated a few of one of the most generally utilized battery chemistries according to criteria considered crucial for grid-level storage space. The group offered a rating in each classification as well as figured out a victor-- and also it had not been lithium-ion.
Mar 5, 2020 // Technology, Storage, Lithium-ion batteries, China, Asia
Potassium steel battery becomes a competing to lithium-ion modern technology
From mobile phone, to solar energy, to electrical autos, humankind is progressively depending on batteries. As need for risk-free, effective, as well as effective power storage space remains to climb, so also does the call for appealing options to rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, which have actually been the leading modern technology in this room.
Mar 4, 2020 // Technology, Storage, USA, North America, lithium-ion battery, Potassium metal battery, Nikhil Koratkar, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Accelerating storage space with pseudocapacitors
Researchers at Germany's Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin have actually made an exploration they state might considerably boost the power storage space capability of titanium-based 'MXene' pseudocapacitors, eventually bring about faster-charging batteries. The team discovered including urea particles in between MXene layers boosted the product's storage space ability by approximately 56%.
Mar 3, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Storage, Germany, Europe, MXenes, Ameer Al-Temimy
Tesla, PG&E obtain Approval for Proposed 1.1 GW Storage Facility in California
Tesla has actually obtained the authorization from the regional authorities to construct its huge 1.1 GWh Megapack battery power storage space system center in California.
Mar 2, 2020 // Storage, California, USA, storage, TESLA, North America, International, Elkhorn Batter Storage, John Phillips
Storage space dominates in France's capability public auction
The Ministry for the Ecological and also Inclusive Transition's long-lasting public auction was arranged by grid driver RTE under the French ability purchase system. Storage space made up 253 MW of the ability designated in the public auction, which was open to all decarbonizing innovations.
Feb 28, 2020 // Storage, France, Europe, auction