Solar Energy Storage and Battery News

Sodium-ion batteries have become a good alternative to their lithium-ion equivalents in numerous industries due to their high wealth and affordable. Bluetti revealed "the globe's very first sodium-ion solar generator"-- NA300 and also its compatible battery module B480-- on its social media handle last month.

Noting a brand-new phase in European industrial background, the cell is the very first to have been completely designed, established and also put together at a gigafactory by an organic European battery company, claimed Northvolt. Commissioning and upscaling of the factory will certainly proceed with right into 2022, when the very first industrial customer shipments will certainly be made.

Lithium-ion battery pack prices, which were above $1,200 per kilowatt-hour in 2010, have actually fallen 89% in actual terms to $132/kWh in 2021 [1] This is a 6% drop from $140/kWh in 2020.

MIT designers have actually created a rechargeable lithium-ion battery in the form of an ultra-long fiber that could be woven into fabrics. The battery can enable a wide variety of wearable digital devices, and could also be utilized to make 3D-printed batteries in basically any type of shape.

Israel's Nofar Energy is to seek the development of UK battery energy storage systems (BESS) in a new joint venture (JV) with financial investment group Interland.

Technology group Wärtsilä will provide a 25-megawatt (MW)/ 48-megawatt hr (MWh) power storage system to GIGA Storage BV in the Netherlands to assist secure the electric grid. The system is anticipated to come to be operational in October 2022.

Spanish solar power developer Powertis SAU has sold its majority ownership over 421 MW of solar PV as well as 90 MW of power storage projects in Italy to German financial investment administration company Aquila Capital, expanding their partnership in the nation.

Technical advisory TÜV Rheinland has been commissioned to study the potential for solar PV to power rail facilities in Germany.

Partnership with Portuguese gas utility Dourogás will explore potential of 8 sites

Tractebel and also its companion business have actually established the globe's very first offshore infrastructure and also processing centers concept for the storage of hydrogen in offshore caves. The layout research study seeks to provide an ingenious remedy for large-scale hydrogen storage space on the high seas: a scalable offshore platform for the compression and also storage of as much as 1.2 million m ³ of hydrogen.

India's biggest battery manufacturer Exide Industries has actually revealed its venture into lithium-ion (Li-ion) cell manufacturing with a multi-gigawatt plant planned soon.

Nofar Energy forms JV with financial investment team Interland to produce Cellarhead battery project

Enel Green Power North America has actually completed the 181-MW Lily solar + storage project located in Kaufman County, Texas. Lily is the company's initial project in North America that integrates a solar plant with utility-scale battery storage.

EDF will supply route to market under a long-lasting contract for the energy storage system in Essex