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Eos energy storage
The Great Energy Disruption
Nearly 10 months ago, Tony Seba, author of the 2014 book Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation, posted a video on YouTube, “CleanDisruption.” In both, he projected that a nearly complete disruption of the energy business would begin in 2020 and be well underway by 2022, the year he projects for distributed solar power with battery backup to fall below the cost of transmitting electricity. It is a point at which centralized power plants, if they are to compete with solar-plus-storage, will have to provide power for free. He believes that all centralized electric power producers will be obsolete by 2030, as will conventional cars and utility companies.
Tesla Powerwall & Powerpacks Per-kWh Lifetime Prices vs Aquion Energy, Eos Energy, & Imergy
Update (May 10): Note that none of the prices below include any subsidies or incentives. [Full Disclosure: I’m long TSLA & SCTY.] Since the Tesla Powerwall news came out, it seems the world has been racing to understand energy storage. It’s easy to understand the concept of storing electricity and … [continued]
Tesla Powerwall Price vs Battery Storage Competitor Prices (Residential & Utility-Scale)
Update #3 (May 10): As some readers and interviewed company executives have noted, the best way to compare Tesla’s battery storage products to others on the market is not simply via a $/kWh of capacity figure, but via a $/kWh of electricity generated (over the lifetime of the product) figure … [continued]
California Energy Commission Gives $2.1 Million To Eos Energy Storage For Demonstration Of AC-Integrated Zinc…
Eos Energy Storage was recently awarded $2.1 million by the California Energy Commission (CEC) to support the demonstration of the company’s AC-integrated zinc hybrid-cathode battery system (Zynth), according to recent reports. For a bit of background — the Znyth battery system/technology is based on the use of a novel zinc-hybrid … [continued]
Eos Energy Storage’s Aurora Battery System Commercially Available In 2016, At $160/kWh
Eos Energy Storage will be making its megawatt-scale Aurora system commercially available starting in 2016 at a price of $160/kWh, according to a recent press release. The company’s standard offering, the Aurora 1000|4000 product, is a containerized 1 megawatt (MW) DC battery system that can provide roughly 4 hours of … [continued]
43 Battery Storage Companies To Watch
As I wrote in my piece on cleantech trends from 2014 and expected cleantech trends in 2015, the battery storage market is really blossoming. There are now quite a number of battery startups and battery departments within big corporations that seem to have promising products arriving on the market or soon to arrive … [continued]
Eos Energy Storage Secures $15 Million Via Private Placement With AltEnergy
The grid-scale battery systems developer and manufacturer Eos Energy Storage has secured $15 million in new financing/proceeds via a new private placement with AltEnergy, as per recent reports. In addition to the private placement involving AltEnergy, Eos Energy Storage is also planning to place another $10 million with accredited investors … [continued]
Eos Aurora Energy Storage System Getting Closer To Market-Ready — GDF SUEZ Acquires One For…
Eos Energy Storage recently sold one of its new, low-cost zinc hybrid cathode (Znyth) battery systems to the energy giant GDF SUEZ, bringing the company’s pilot demonstration program one step forward — leading the way to the wider deployment of the product in the commercial landscape of Europe sometime in … [continued]
Utility-Scale Battery Storage Costs Dropping
Originally published on RenewEconomy The cost of battery storage is falling quicker than most analysts presume and could be competitive with gas-fired generation – even in the US, where gas prices are low – within the next 18 months. That’s the prediction of Steve Hellman, the president of battery storage … [continued]
