Originally published on Sustainnovate. By Henry Lindon The UK will add 1 gigawatt (GW) of new energy storage capacity by the year 2020, according to IHS forecasts. The primary driver behind this expansion will be the renewable energy industry — in combination with ever-rising consumer electricity prices, an already established … [continued]
Originally published on RMI Outlet. By Kate Hawley In the far reaches of Western Australia, more than 17,000 people live in indigenous communities spread through 287 townships. Basic services are hard to come by, such as adequate water, wastewater services, and electricity. The Australian Government was faced with how to … [continued]
A team of Stanford University researchers is on the verge of disrupting the hydrogen market with a new low cost, low voltage water splitting device.
A Beacon Power project in Anchorage, Alaska, will use the company’s flywheel technology combined with electrochemical battery storage to construct a 320 kW system. The project is a pilot to see if it will work in conjunction with renewable forms of energy to counterbalance their periods of intermittency. If it … [continued]
Originally published on RMI Outlet. By Laurie Guevara-Stone As most Alaskans can attest, energy in The Last Frontier is expensive. The average residential electricity rate of more than 18 cents per kWh is a full 50 percent higher than the national average, ranking among the highest in the country. That’s … [continued]
The first grid-connected hybrid flywheel project in Europe was recently announced by Ireland’s Minister of State at the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. SchwungradEnergie Limited, an Irish company, is behind the project and will collaborate with the Dept. of Physics and Energy at the University of Limerick. An American … [continued]
Below is another cleantech link drop, my favorite cleantech stories from around the interwebs other than the ones we’ve covered. However, one of these stories doesn’t have a link, but I figured this is the best place to share it. Tesla emailed over a Q1 sales update (woohoo!). In case you … [continued]
As renewable technologies begin to mature, more and more attention is focusing on energy storage, which has tremendous implications for the current makeup and economics of energy grids. BBC published a chart at the beginning of March that listed the top 10 nations of the world in terms of energy storage … [continued]
The past 2 weeks have been huge for the Energy Excelerator. The Blackstone Charitable Foundation and DENSO joined the Office of Naval Research, the US Department of Energy, the Hawaii State Energy Office, and Hawaiian Electric Industries in partnering with the Energy Excelerator. The Energy Excelerator supports innovative energy solutions … [continued]
The revenue generated worldwide by grid-scale energy storage between 2014–2024 is predicted to total $68.5 billion, as per a recent report from Navigant Research. The report — which analyzed the global market for utility-scale energy storage for bulk + ancillary service applications — notes that despite the start-stop nature of … [continued]
