IEA 2020:Double Clean Energy Spending
Global investments in clean energy need to double by 2020 to avoid missing climate change targets, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Monday, calling... Read More
Nanocable Potential Boon for Energy Storage
Researchers at Rice University have created a tiny coaxial cable that is about a thousand times smaller than a human hair and has higher capacitance... Read More
UK Engineers Call for Electricity Storage Support
The UK Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) called for government support of electricity storage technologies, which are crucial to future supply and could put the... Read More
Grid Operators Want Good Wind Forecasts
Improving wind energy forecasts is critical for integrating the variable wind power source into the U.S. power grid. Technology advancements to cut production costs, as... Read More
Hydrogel Outperforms Carbon Supercapacitors
Supercapacitors complement batteries in energy storage and delivery schemes both large and small, as they can provide quick bursts of power. However, supercapacitors hold less... Read More
Energy Storage: Could Hydrogen be the Answer?
The storage of energy generated from intermittent renewables such as solar power has always been a source of contention in the utility market. Now, the... Read More
Project Priority: Renewables + Smart Grid
Smart grid technologies are often touted as essential to efforts to increase renewable energy production, yet this aspect of the smart grid is the least... Read More
Partnership to Jump Start Energy Storage
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and CalCEF have joined forces to pioneer the first ever public-private consortium designed to leapfrog current energy storage technology and develop... Read More
Future of Solar Energy Storage is Bright
Has the solar-power industry settled into a stagnant pattern of boom and bust? Presumably so. Government subsidies fueled the global installed capacity of solar-photovoltaic (PV)... Read More
Powin & IPC to Co-develop Grid Storage Solution
Powin Energy and Ideal Power Converters’ (IPC) have entered a joint collaboration to develop a modular grid storage solution. Powin will utilize IPC’s bi-directional battery... Read More