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
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