Energy Storage: Next Game Changer
Everybody agrees that storage is turning into big business, and soon, but exactly how big and how soon?
Everybody agrees that storage is turning into big business, and soon, but exactly how big and how soon?
The team at Zap&Go has developed a new energy storage technology that combines the rapid charging of super conductors and, with the help of carbon nano tubes and some tech from the University of Oxford, turns them into a battery that have the potential to revolutionize the growing world of energy storage.
Tesla is continuing its push into the lucrative Australian energy markets with a new contract for a 4MW/8MWh grid-scale battery for the Queensland utility in Townsville, Australia.
The electric vehicle (EV) industry was booming in 2018. It was the most booming year of a booming decade for EVs. Below is a long, long rundown of notables changes in the industry in 2018.
The Green New Deal and multiple proposed laws and resolutions in the U.S. House (HRes.540, HR.3314, HR.3671) and Senate (SRes.632, S.987) call for the United States to move entirely from fossil fuels to clean, renewable electricity and/or all energy. A new bill was just introduced by Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) and Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), calling for the U.S. to produce 100 percent of its electric power from renewables by 2035.
I started covering the solar energy industry seriously in 2009. It seemed like a hopping, exciting time in the industry — growth was exploding. I remember one early story in which readers admonished me a little because I put “Solar Power Exploding” in a headline, and they thought I was referring to genuine explosions. In 2019, 2009 and 2010 progress looks like anthills.
Welcome to the next issue of China x Cleantech, our December 2018 edition. The year has closed, but let us review the final interesting cleantech developments from China last year.
CleanTechnica and EV charging leader GreenWay last year led a working group of EV charging leaders — EVBox, Fortum, the Norwegian EV Association, and approximately a dozen others — to create EV charging guidelines for cities. CleanTechnica Director and Chief Editor Zachary Shahan presented a 10 key tips included in the report at a conference in the UAE in January. A video of the presentation is above, and a summary of it is below.
Malta Energy Storage began as one of the “moonshot” projects assigned to X, the innovation branch of Google. Now it has been spun off into a separate standalone business. Can it survive the rigors of the marketplace?
EDF Energy has partnered with Nuvve to install up to 1,500 new EV chargers with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capability in the UK that will serve as a healthy foundation for vehicle-to-grid capability on the charger side in the UK.