Chile: Transparency Is Key To Success For Energy Storage Industry
Paulo Castro, Business Development Manager, Wärtsilä ES&O
Grid Scale Batteries
Wärtsilä Is Putting Out Grid-Scale Battery Fires Before They Start
Wärtsilä recently completed rigorous, large-scale fire safety testing of its GridSolv Quantum energy storage system (ESS), and the enormous scope and scale of the test program set a new standard for grid-level fire safety testing in the energy storage industry — despite the fact that Wärtsilä‘s batteries have never caught … [continued]
The Hidden Utility Costs of Installing EV Fast Chargers
A few years ago, when I first got an EV, I figured out pretty quickly how important infrastructure was. I had a first-generation Nissan LEAF, and there were basically no local chargers. This meant that instead of being able to drive 100 miles, I could only drive 50 miles from … [continued]
Texas Solar Buildout is a Case of ‘Batteries Not Included’
The solar buildout in Texas isn’t going as well as it is in California, because Texas forgot to use batteries.
AES Building 100 Megawatt Battery In Arizona To Fight The Duck Curve With Solar
Arizona is stepping up its energy storage game with a new contract for battery supplier AES to install 100 megawatts of stationary storage for the utility Arizona Public Service.
Caterpillar Ventures Invests In Fisker’s Solid State Battery Tech
Caterpillar Venture Capital Inc has made a strategic investment into Fisker Inc as a bet on the company’s solid-state battery technology.
Tesla Energy Now Accepting Powerpack Web Orders
Tesla Energy kicked off just less than 1 year ago with a last-minute event on April 30th, 2015, where Elon and team broke the news of the establishment of Tesla Energy. Two product classes were being developed — Powerwall for residential use for peak shaving and battery backup in the … [continued]
BioCat Hopes To Solve The Grid Storage Issue
As more and more renewables come onto grids around the world, peak loads and peak production curves will shift dramatically, causing usage spikes at times when grid operators are used to seeing dips and seemingly random spikes in generation when the wind picks up. To smooth out these curves and … [continued]
Electric Bus Adoption Is Taking Off In China
Here at CleanTechnica, we frequently cover electric buses, as they often displace diesel and hybrid diesel buses that are typically major generators of particulate matter (PM) emissions in cities. Lots of pollution where we have the most people is not ideal, so this conversion process is extremely important. The electrification of mass transit is … [continued]
Digging Deeper Into The Baron–Musk Interview
We shared an interview earlier this week where investment guru Ron Baron brought Elon Musk to his company’s investors conference for a 1 hour Q&A. Because they talked through so many juicy details, I wanted to pull out some of the other key points that stood out to me that we didn’t … [continued]
