When you think about innovative energy storage leaders that might see explosive growth in the years to come, you might think of Tesla Motors, Panasonic, BYD, Samsung, LG, Ambri, Eos Energy Storage, Aquion, and ViZn. But as exciting and noteworthy as each of those companies is, there’s another energy storage … [continued]
Rutland, Vermont is on its way to becoming the solar capital of the US with the Stafford Hills Solar Farm, a first-of-its kind all-solar microgrid project.
Pacific Northwest National Lab predicts that new low cost, utility scale sodium-β batteries could transform wind and solar into baseload generators.
Cleantechnica interviews Imergy Power Systems about the company’s “mining” of vanadium from waste materials for use in its flow batteries.
Originally Published on the ECOreport Germany’s renewable sector (RE) is flexing its muscles, with solar production up 28% and wind up 19% during the first half of 2014. As a result, the renewable sector accounted for 31% of the nation’s electricity. If this trend continues, this may be the third … [continued]
Three Washington State utilities with big investments in wind power have just signed on to a new $14.3 million energy storage and smart grid demonstration project. The end payoff will be further proof that wind power and other intermittent forms of energy can be integrated into a utility scale electricity provider while keeping up a steady stream of reliable, durable power.
Scientists at the University of Southern California created a “natural” battery using quinones, organic compounds that can be found in both plants and animals.
Originally Published in the ECOreport Germany has long been one of the world’s leading centers of the wind industry, so I welcomed an opportunity to question Esther Frey, renewable energies expert at Germany Trade & Invest (GTAI), about this technology’s effectiveness and future development. GTAI is the foreign trade and … [continued]
Greenpeace is out with a new report called Energy [R]evolution: A Sustainable USA Energy Outlook, and given the organization’s history it’s no surprise that the report makes a strong case for getting close to 100 percent renewable energy in the US by 2050. By “close,” they mean thisclose: for starters, … [continued]
Vanadium flow batteries offer the kind of low cost, high capacity energy storage solutions that will help transform the wind and the sun into power sources that rival fossil fuel plants for stability and reliability, but as always there are a couple of catches: where to get the silvery transition … [continued]
