When an electric vehicle (EV) comes off the road, what happens to the vehicle battery? The fate of the lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles is an important question for manufacturers, policy makers, and EV owners alike.
A previous CleanTechnica article reviewed the basics of power generation. That article is a good primer for this follow-up article delving deeper into the subject. How do we most efficiently integrate the maximum amount of renewables into the grid? Let’s start with understanding how things work. As first-order simplification, we … [continued]
In conjunction with the recent White House summit on scaling renewable energy and storage with smart markets, Florida Power and Light Company recently announced a new “innovative” energy storage pilot project. The new pilot project announced by Florida Power and Light Company (FPL) will see the testing of multiple applications … [continued]
A new ESP250 series of vanadium flow batteries has been introduced by advanced storage systems leader Imergy Power Systems. Its output capacity is 250 kilowatts (kW), with 1 megawatt-hour (MW) of energy storage capacity. Multiple batteries can be linked together to create one energy storage platform. When they are linked … [continued]
As we search for a battery technology that will answer our aspirations for energy storage, Eos rechargable Zinc-Air battery may be the chemistry that can provide sufficient energy density.
