The Future of Clean Energy: Storage News Roundup
Recent developments in this energy and storage sectors are bringing new light to emerging technologies. We’re looking at a few of the most interesting energy storage technology developments below.
Vanadium Flow Batteries
How to Understand Battery Life
The idea that batteries have a ‘life’ is familiar. We’ve all experienced a ‘dying’ cell phone battery with its charge draining, usually at the most inconvenient time. But knowing how and why this happens – from cell phones, EV batteries, and batteries for storage, is key. Read more about understanding battery life.
Answering The Call For Long-Duration Energy Storage
A “may day”’ call this year came from the U.S. Department of Energy. The DOE made a $30 million funding commitment to long-term energy solutions through its Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) office. “Long-term,” as defined in the project scope, starts at 10 hours and extends up to 100 hours of stored energy.
“The Future of Energy is Here” Panel Highlights Vanadium Flow Batteries
StorEn battery’s increased power density enables StorEn to reduce the size of the battery stack. With smaller plates able to deliver performance at parity with larger sizes, less material (like membrane material) is required, lowering material costs by as much as 50%.
StorEn Technology’s Vanadium Flow Battery Prototype Outpacing Expectations
The energy storage market in the United States was up +46% in the third quarter of 2017. This growth represents a strong opportunity for vanadium flow batteries – which may begin to outpace lithium as early as 2018 – to support energy storage and grid modernization.
Why We Need More Solar Storage Solutions
Across the world, power downtime keeps going up. Power outages increased in frequency and were more widespread in 2016, affecting 33% more people, showing that we definitely need a solar storage solution.
Flow Battery Vs. Tesla Battery Smackdown Looming
The startup UTE is promoting its latest vanadium flow battery project in Washington State with a not so subtle dig at the lithium-ion Tesla battery.
Tesla Powerwall & Powerpacks Per-kWh Lifetime Prices vs Aquion Energy, Eos Energy, & Imergy
Update (May 10): Note that none of the prices below include any subsidies or incentives. [Full Disclosure: I’m long TSLA & SCTY.] Since the Tesla Powerwall news came out, it seems the world has been racing to understand energy storage. It’s easy to understand the concept of storing electricity and … [continued]
Double-Teaming Diesel With Solar & Energy Storage (CT Exclusive Interview)
SunEdison and Imergy Power Systems have introduced a sustainable solar/energy storage business model for up to 5000 villages in India — just for starters.
Imergy Power Systems Introduces Grid-Scale ESP250 Series Flow Batteries
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]
