New Flow Battery Lasts All Year On Simple Sugar
New flow battery deploys the simple sugar β-cyclodextrin for an abundant, sustainable long duration energy storage formula.
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Blue Nova Launches The MegaBoy 1 MWh Storage Product
Blue Nova Energy, a member of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange Listed Reunert Group, looks to be ramping up nicely and has just launched the MegaBoy.
Energy Vault Proposes An Energy Storage System Using Concrete Blocks
Swiss startup Energy Vault has devised an energy storage system that uses blocks of concrete weighing 35 tons a piece. It uses off the shelf technology but uses a new process to make the concrete blocks for a fraction of the cost of regular concrete.
NEC Corporation Involved In Largest Renewable Energy Storage System In Italy
Originally published on EnergyPost. By Karel Beckman NEC Corporation has announced the commissioning of an Energy Storage System (ESS) for Enel Group subsidiary Enel Distribuzione, Italy’s largest distribution system operator. The ESS can store two megawatt hours (2MWh) of renewable power for release into the grid as required, making it the … [continued]
Tiny Green Charge Networks “Peaker Plant” Saves Big Pile Of Cash
The startup Green Charge Networks is planning a big announcement for next week, so in advance of that we’re going to take a look back at what the company has been up to so far. Its GreenStation™ energy storage unit is a lithium-ion battery system designed to operate like an … [continued]
Interview With Maxwell Technologies: Ultracapacitor-based Energy Storage System
This post first appeared on San Diego Loves Green by Roy Hales A week ago, Maxwell Technologies announced they had been “been awarded a $1.39 million contract by the California Energy Commission’s Research and Development program to fund design and integration of an ultracapacitor-based energy storage system with Soitec’s CPV system located on … [continued]
Cheaper Energy Storage Systems = More Renewable Energy
Energy storage on a large scale would help even out the intermittent nature of renewable energy; in fact, techniques such as batteries and fuel cells are used on smaller scales right now to manage grids with high percentages of renewable sources. The problem with wide-scale use is that energy storage systems […]
