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AugWind Energy To Install First Commercial-Scale AirBattery In Germany

Augwind Energy, based in Israel, will build the “world’s first commercial-scale AirBattery system” in Germany. The battery will use compressed air stored in salt caverns to generate electricity. The AirBattery system can store enough compressed air to generate gigawatt-hours of electricity. The air is compressed using excess renewable electricity and … [continued]

Solar-powered electric bus at airport. Photo by Zach Shahan/CleanTechnica.

The Best Solar Power Countries in the World Will Shock You

I just wrote an article about how much China dominates the world solar PV market. Though, looking through the Snapshot of Global PV Markets report from the International Energy Agency’s Photovoltaic Power Systems Program (IEA PVPS), a few other charts stood out to me at least as much as the … [continued]