Discover The Little-Known Metal Many Experts Now Believe Could Be The Solution To Renewable Energy’s…
Is This Metal Destined to Replace Lithium and Transform Everything from the Mining Industry to Long Duration Energy Storage and Much More?
Is This Metal Destined to Replace Lithium and Transform Everything from the Mining Industry to Long Duration Energy Storage and Much More?
With TITANstack™, StorEn Technologies is further supporting the transition to renewable generation and a green economy by developing efficient, durable, and cost-effective energy storage!
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.
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.
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.
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%.
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.
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.
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.
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]