Eos Energy Storage has released its second big announcement of the month, a funding boost that includes funding from NRG Energy, a major US energy company. I just featured a long post on Eos Energy Storage less than a month ago, followed soon after by a post on its first … [continued]
With Dr. Ernest Moniz officially confirmed at the next US Secretary of Energy, leading cleantech and green groups are getting their statements out regarding what they think of this. Here are a few I thought were worth publishing, followed by some of my own thoughts: EDF President Fred Krupp: Today’s unanimous … [continued]
IRENA and IEA-ETSAP’s initial set of 10 renewable energy briefs scopes out the state of play in terms of technology, markets and barriers to ongoing development and growth globally.
The US Energy Information Agency (EIA) recently had a pretty interesting and useful post on electricity storage you might be interested in checking out. Here’s a nice graphic from the post, followed by the intro: “Electricity storage can be deployed throughout an electric power system—functioning as generation, transmission, distribution, … [continued]
A new report has shown that the total storage capacity worldwide will increase a hundred-fold over the next 10 years, pushing the number from 121 megawatts (MW) in 2011 to 12,353 MW in 2021.
That number equates to a growth of just over $122 billion of investment in energy storage projects over the same timeframe.
Concentrating solar thermal power has promised big additions to renewable energy production with the additional benefit of energy storage. But with significant water consumption in desert locations, is the energy storage benefit of concentrating solar enough to compete with the dramatically falling cost of solar PV?
While technology has helped change the economics of electricity production (in favor of renewables and distributed generation), this new dynamic can as easily be controlled by the incumbent utilities as the old paradigm of centralized fossil fuel power generation.
Global sales of utility-scale electricity storage systems are forecast to grow more than 35% at an annually compounded rate as grid operators make greater use of renewable energy sources and build out interconnections and smart grid systems.
A lab at MIT, led by Dr. Daniel Nocera, have invented a new and novel form of storing energy that may prove to be an important milestone in the development of alternative energy. In fact, the obvious utility of the process has engendered a bit of excitement, but this excitement has also generated some misconceptions about the process that I would like to clear up, now that I have a more complete understanding of how it works.
Here’s one electricity storage technology that’s been around for over 20 years, under the radar, but might be due for a resurgence in interest with the addition of more wind power to the grid. Wind tends to blow at night when we don’t need it. [social_buttons] Steffes Electric Thermal Storage … [continued]
