New seawater battery – cost-effective route to large-scale energy storage
A new type of eco-friendly battery that uses seawater to produce and store electricity is being developed in South Korea by the researchers at Ulsan... Read More
Can Solar Power + Energy Storage Be The Next Big Thing?
Combining solar power and energy storage is part of the business of many companies like Tesla and Sunrun. By 2021, behind-the-meter storage applications will represent... Read More
HOW CAN SYSTEM OPERATORS AND TSOS OBTAIN ANCILLARY SERVICES FROM DISTRIBUTED ENERGY STORAGE AND IMPROVE GRID RESILIENCE
On the island of Ireland EirGrid & SONI, the two TSOs and Market Operators, jointly operate a Single Electricity Market across the two jurisdictions. Our... Read More
How can utilities and regulators maintain equity among customers with widely differing situations?
“The issue of cross subsidization between customer classes is not a new debate. However, the innovations with distributed energy resources and technological developments of the... Read More
Different aspects of hydrogen as a new and developing energy vector
The world of energy is moving toward more and more renewable energies capacities. In order to store the maximum of these new energies, a series of... Read More
Lithium Ion Batteries Account For 83 Percent of Energy Storage Capacity
A new report from Navigant Research examines global energy storage projects, providing a database of more than 1,200 projects encompassing more than 43,000 individual systems, with an... Read More
Sweden To Give 60% Subsidy For Residential Energy Storage Batteries
Sweden has announced a government subsidy that will cover 60% of the cost for installing a residential energy storage system, up to a maximum of... Read More
Tesla And SolarCity Power Entire Island With Solar & Batteries
Ta’u, an island in American Samoa, has turned its nose at fossil fuels and is now almost 100 percent powered with solar panels and batteries... Read More
Oncor, S&C And Schneider Electric Unveil Unique Microgrid
Oncor, S &C Electric, and Schneider Electric have unveiled one of the most sophisticated microgrids in North America, near a remote frontier post in Lancaster,... Read More
Energy Storage To Hit Mass Markets In 5 Years-Deutsche Bank
According to a recently released study by Deutsche Bank titled “Crossing the Chasm”, published on 2 March 2015, large-scale energy storage will become available within... Read More