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Pianos, bikes, batteries: Yamaha’s Li-ion test equipment on show in Tokyo
Japanese maker of precision equipment, Yamaha, was exhibiting its recently launched products for testing and inspecting lithium-ion batteries at a major smart energy trade show in Tokyo this week.
Corporations, citizens and most bankable batteries: ‘Storage & Smart Power’ returns
Volume 19 of PV Tech Power has just hit the (digital) shelves and once again the quarterly technical journal from our publisher Solar Media includes ‘Storage & Smart Power’, the dedicated section created and curated by Energy-Storage.news.
Irish redox flow energy storage demonstrator project underway
A new redox flow battery demonstration project was launched in Belfast, Northern Ireland, this week.
Fraunhofer: Energy storage system safety still needs to adapt for Li-Ion
Regulations for the safe use of energy storage systems still need adaptation to “accommodate a broader use of energy storage with higher energy content like lithium-ion batteries in private homes”, experts at Fraunhofer ISE (Institute for Solar Energy Systems) have said.
LG&E and KU install 3MW energy storage research centre at Kentucky power plant
Louisville Gas and Electric and Kentucky Utilities (LG&E and KU), arms of US firm PPL Corporation, have developed a research centre for energy storage at a power plant in Kentucky.
TÜV SÜD provides technical due diligence for 120MWh of STEAG’s projects
Project financing for six large-scale energy storage systems in Germany has been helped along by due diligence provided by testing, certification and knowledge services group TÜV SÜD.
Solar-integrating micro-grid with flow batteries inaugurated by Virginia utility Dominion
US utility Dominion Resources is to install zinc iron redox flow batteries made by Vizn Energy onto a micro-grid to test their suitability for integrating solar onto a local circuit.
ARPA-E grid and microgrid storage projects to be accredited by DNV GL
Grid storage and distributed energy technologies overseen by the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) in the US will be accredited by technical advisory service DNV GL for the next four years.