Liquid Air Batteries: The Key To Energy Storage?
One of the obvious drawbacks of wind and solar energy is the simple fact that the wind doesn’t blow all day long and the sun doesn’t shine constantly (it does actually but things get in its way). A...
View ArticleCan LightSail Energy Dominate Energy Storage?
LightSail Energy (LightSail) is a Berkeley, California, company that has developed compressed air energy storage technology which may be used for grid-scale storage. The company’s central innovation is...
View ArticleThe Possibilities of Graphene Micro Supercapacitors
Imagine plugging in your smartphone for thirty seconds and then continuing the rest of your day with a fully charged phone. Then imagine plugging in your electric vehicle for less time than it takes to...
View ArticleHow to Store Solar Power?
Despite the rapid growth of today’s solar industry, a fundamental question remains: what happens when produced solar energy outweighs its demand at any given time? The intermittent nature of solar...
View ArticleUW Professor Designs Solar Cells that Store Energy
When people think about solar, they often think about harvesting- how to gather the energy. “But there’s another side of the story that’s sometimes overlooked,” said Hongrui Jiang a professor at the...
View ArticleSiemens Develops Modular Power Storage for Renewable Energy
Siemens is now trying to step into this growing market as well with its latest modular power storage system dubbed the ‘Siestorage’. These lithium-ion power storage systems offered by Siemens start off...
View ArticleIt’s All About Energy Storage
A new study from UK-based GlobaData reveals that energy storage innovation will be essential to the advancement of solar power generation. Unfortunately, the study also found that there is little...
View ArticleESolar Makes Big Bet on Modular Solar Storage Power Towers
NREL’s just-released Renewable Electricity Futures study concluded the most abundant U.S. renewable resource is solar. The U.S. technical potential of utility-scale photovoltaic (PV) was estimated at...
View ArticleEnergy Storage: Future Requirement for Renewable Energy Projects?
Energy storage technology might be moving from a nice-to-have addition to solar and wind installations to a component that’s necessary for project approval, if developments in California are any...
View ArticleLet’s Talk Energy Storage
If the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has its way, investor-owned utilities (IOUs) around the state will have a mandate to acquire 1,325 MW of storage capacity by 2020 as part of the...
View ArticleIn Focus: Thin Glass For Energy Storage
Researchers at Penn State University are working on a new type of thin glass capable of storing energy, a material that could help make...The post In Focus: Thin Glass For Energy Storage appeared first...
View ArticleSolar + Batteries = End of Utilities?
Rooftop solar panels combined with battery storage have very real potential to destroy the reigning grid utility model, according to a study released this week by the Rocky Mountain Institute. And the...
View ArticleCarbon Capture From Natural Gas in the UK
The first industrial carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project from natural gas has been given the go-ahead by the British government with Shell as the contractor. Shell UK is launching the...
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