Grid Storage Batteries Getting Cheaper
Lithium-ion and molten-salt battery costs will approach $500/kWh by 2022, reducing the high capital cost of emerging grid energy storage technologies. However, expectations of half... Read More
Spray Battery Could Revolutionize Energy Storage
A team of mechanical engineers from Rice University have invented revolutionary, spray-on rechargeable batteries that could be combined with solar cells to create self-sufficient, energy... Read More
1900s Battery For Future Low-carbon Technology?
Stanford University scientists are looking to the past to answer the present’s need for energy storage technologies, by upgrading a rechargeable nickel-iron battery technology developed... Read More
Alstom & CEA-Liten:Energy Storage Focused Lab
Alstom Grid and the teams of the French state-owned research entity CEA – INES (Institut national de l energie solaire) will be establishing a joint... Read More
Researchers Develop New Grid Storage Technology
An interdisciplinary team of researchers from Drexel University have reported the development of a new technology for grid-scale energy storage which could provide a fast,... Read More
New DOE Grid Storage Demonstration Project
East Penn Manufacturing and its subsidiary Ecoult have announced the newest project in the US Department of Energy’s Smart Grid Storage Demonstration Program. The PJM... Read More
Solar Powers Renewable Energy Sector
Amid a spectacular price plunge in the capital cost of renewable energies, solar attracted nearly twice as much investment as wind, driving the renewable energy... Read More
DOE Awarding $56 million for CSP
A total of 21 research projects for advancements in technology for concentrating solar power technologies are being awarded funding by the DOE. The research projects,... Read More
Unlikely Alliance:Energy Storage & Gravel
British startup Isentropic has raised $22 million in project funding and an equity investment from the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) to develop a system consisting... Read More
Breakthrough Battery: Potential Game-changer
A new lithium ion battery technology has been unveiled by A123 Systems that is said to operate at extreme temperatures without expensive and weighty thermal... Read More