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VIDEO: Ultracapacitors and the energy transition
Energy-Storage.news was delighted to host a sponsored webinar on ultracapacitors with EITInnoEnergy a few weeks ago and you can watch the whole thing on our YouTube channel.
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Solving California’s energy puzzle: Microgrids, home batteries and power-to-gas
While planning a better future for California’s energy system will take time and lies in the hands of many, many stakeholders from regulators to government to citizens and corporations, here are a few more of the recent moves forwards in clean energy in the state.
UL launches free energy storage fire safety test database
UL has created a database on its website that allows energy storage system manufacturers to list the results of their UL 9540A thermal runaway fire propagation tests.
Aggreko toasts Australian microgrid completion as interest in decentralised energy ‘skyrockets’
Mobile energy solutions provider Aggreko has completed one of the largest renewable energy microgrids in the world, at the Granny Smith gold mine in Western Australia.
PODCAST: Global decarbonisation policy, Tesla Battery Day and huge solar manufacturing expansion
In this episode of the Solar Media Podcast, Liam Stoker and Andy Colthorpe take a deep dive into what Elon & Co. presented at Tesla’s Big Battery Day, assess what the recent spate of solar manufacturing expansion announcements mean for the sector, and discuss the current state of energy politics.
Zinc battery hopeful Eos expands Nigeria microgrid partnership
Eos Energy Storage will deploy a further 2MWh of its zinc battery storage systems across four rural microgrid projects in Nigeria.
ROUNDUP: Generac acquires Enbala, Vattenfall Sweden battery trial, Generator-compatible batteries
News in brief from around the world in energy storage.
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Experts react to Tesla Battery Day: The key technology takeaways
In this final piece of in-depth Battery Day coverage, let’s take a closer look at the technology, manufacturing techniques and value chain improvements Elon Musk and Drew Baglino talked about.
COVID-19 hits profitability of ENGIE energy storage subsidiary
ENGIE EPS incurred increases in operating expenses and extraordinary costs due to COVID-19 which “more than offset” an increase in revenues that ENGIE’s energy storage subsidiary earned in the first half of this year.
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Experts react to Tesla Battery Day: Highlights, hype and honking horns
An examination, analysis and perspectives on the takeaways and highlights beyond the hype of Tesla’s latest and most ambitious plans yet, from market analysts, technologists and more.
Energy storage’s prominent role in bipartisan green recovery package for US welcomed
Legislation to help the US economy invest in clean energy jobs and support innovation and industry passed the House of Representatives this week - and Energy Storage Association (ESA) CEO Kelly Speakes-Backman applauded the prominent inclusion of energy storage in the bill.
Multi-gigawatt market for co-located solar and storage is already taking off but faces challenges
A multi-gigawatt co-location market looks set to take off within the next five years, however uncertainty over DC coupling, the need for costly symmetric grid connections and outdated regulatory frameworks risk stymying the market’s growth.
PV Tech Power Vol.24 out now: Big solar panels, big hydrogen and building better batteries
The new edition of PV Tech Power – PV Tech Power 24 – is now available to download from the PV Tech Store.
New York’s first community solar-plus-storage plant to lower participants’ electricity rates 10%
A solar-plus-storage project in New York which has just been completed is the first community project of its type and should help lower electricity costs for participants by 10% for the next 25 years.
BNEF: Lithium battery supply chain is unsurprisingly led by China
BloombergNEF (BNEF) has ranked China #1 among the countries of the world most involved in the lithium-ion battery supply chain in 2020, with Japan and South Korea in second and third place respectively.
Lithium battery recycling facility welcomed by New York Governor Cuomo
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said that a new recycling facility for lithium-ion batteries helps create quality jobs and support clean energy as the state “builds back stronger” from the COVID-19 crisis.