Clean Cooking: 33 Solutions For One Renewable Energy Problem
Renewable energy has a clean power problem in the cookstove area, but help is on the way.
Renewable energy has a clean power problem in the cookstove area, but help is on the way.
Site-integrated energy storage solutions provider Connected Energy has secured a $3 million investment from Australian bank Macquarie Group and French utility ENGIE to fund the growth of its unique battery storage systems that use retired electric vehicle battery packs as stationary energy storage systems.
The UK-based site-integrated energy storage solutions provider Connected Energy will be heading a new £1.3 million (~$1.7 million) research project with Jaguar Land Rover and others that focuses on productive uses of second-life electric vehicle batteries.
Driving an all-electric vehicle with limited range and no Supercharging, I do sometimes think about options for long-distance travel, off-the-beaten-path travel, and perhaps even off-the-grid travel. The challenges of EV charging on highways along open fields and long, winding mountains is sometimes that there’s no high-power connection to the grid, and creating a connection is very costly.
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]