Originally published on RenewEconomy by Sophie Vorrath Queensland University’s commercialisation division, UniQuest, has taken a stake in local energy storage management company Redback Technologies, as part of an agreement aimed at accelerating the roll-out of Redback’s solar energy storage and management technologies. Under the agreement, Redback will be able to access … [continued]
Update Feb 19: It seems the audio upload to SoundCloud was cut short for some reason, making this episode ~12 minutes instead of ~32. I just re-uploaded the audio file and it is now the full episode. In another episode of Cleantech Talk, Matthew, Kyle, and I run through a … [continued]
The Australian energy storage market is on the rise, as households turn to batteries to avoid ever increasing electricity tariffs. This is the major takeaway from a new report published by IHS, Energy Storage Intelligence Service, which has tracked the Australian energy storage market and found it has grown from less … [continued]
The impending deployments of Tesla Powerwalls in the US appears to be starting, with surveys having been sent out to early reservation holders. No firm details are included, but with Tesla already releasing the user manual and installing Powerwalls in the UK and Australia, the timing of the surveys seems like a … [continued]
The big news in storage for the last year and a half has been the Tesla/Panasonic Gigafactory that is being built just outside of Reno, Nevada, but the incumbents in the battery game haven’t been sitting still. We reported in October that LG Chem had ramped up production in its … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. Connected Energy and Renault are partnering together for the creation of second-life electric vehicle battery energy storage technologies, the first of which, the E-STOR technology, will be available for purchase in the UK starting in July, according to recent reports. This first offering is a … [continued]
Editor’s note: I just flew to India to present at an institutional investment conference on the topic of disruptive innovation, so it was interesting/serendipitous that I edited two great, original, India-focused articles on the flight here. This one is on the complicated and important off-grid solar market. Kartikeya Singh, who has … [continued]
We are experiencing a quiet revolution. Everything appears the same from the outside. The streets, the towns and cities, and everyday life are the same. To be sure, there are changes. The internet has appeared, and computers and smartphones are everywhere, but for the most part, we drive our cars, … [continued]
Which charges faster, a Tesla Model S or a Nissan Leaf? Get out your calculators. Ready, set, go. All batteries are described by their ability to deliver current and voltage. Open circuit voltage is the voltage batteries produce when not connected to a load or to a really small load … [continued]
Australia’s battery storage industry has received a big boost after Sunverge Energy’s world leading technology received an investment of USD$36.5 million. Sunverge Energy, a global leader in intelligent storage and distributed energy resource management, closed a USD$36.5 million Series C round of financing from new investor AGL Energy Ltd, Australia’s … [continued]
