8minutenergy, the leading independent solar PV developer in the United States, has announced this week that it is expanding into the energy storage market, and it comes with a 1 gigawatt project pipeline already in place.
New figures from GTM Research has revealed corporate investment in the energy storage sector reached an all-time high in the third quarter, totaling $660 million and bringing the annual cumulative total up to $812 million.
The United States is on pace for another historic year of energy storage deployment, according to new figures from GTM Research which shows the country deployed 41.2 MW of energy storage in the second quarter of 2016. GTM Research published its US Energy Storage Monitor today, the research company’s quarterly analysis … [continued]
A new bill has been introduced in the US Senate and House of Representatives that could boost energy storage markets. The US Energy Storage Tax Incentive and Deployment Act is a bill which focuses on tax credits for both residential and business systems. Martin Heinrich, a Democratic New Mexican Senator, put … [continued]
The Obama Administration has announced a series of federal and private sector actions to scale energy storage in the US. At the Summit on Scaling Renewable Energy and Storage with Smart Markets, which brought together regulators, power companies, municipalities, and energy developers, the Obama Administration announced new executive actions and … [continued]
The US energy storage market grew a phenomenal 243% in 2015, the largest year on record, according to new figures published by GTM Research. According to GTM Research’s latest report, US Energy Storage Monitor 2015 Year in Review, the US energy storage market had both its best quarter ever, and finished off … [continued]
The United States deployed 60.3 MW of energy storage during the third quarter of the year, bringing the year’s cumulative total up over 100 MW. The figures come by way of GTM Research’s US Energy Storage Monitor report published this week, and represent a twofold increase on figures from the third quarter … [continued]
Younicos will be doubling its workforce in the US and Germany by the year 2017, according to a recent press statement from the company. The reason for the hiring surge is an obvious one — there’s expected to be explosive growth in the energy storage market over the coming years. As … [continued]
Reposted from Arctic Sea Ice Forum (with minor edits): At this point in time, pump-up hydro is our cheapest way to store electricity. Pump water up with spare electricity, let it flow back through turbines when we need electricity. We’ve got over 20 GW of pump-up hydro in the US that … [continued]
