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A solar-plus-storage project in the US, built by NREL to evaluate the business case for a much larger project to be built later. Image: Dennis Schroeder / NREL

Hybrid renewables-plus-battery power plants are growing rapidly — are they a good idea?

October 4, 2021
Will Gorman from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory looks at the trend for battery storage to be directly paired with wind and solar.
Recipients of funding include Largo Clean Energy, which has launched its own V-Charge brand of flow batteries. Image: Largo Clean Energy.

US DoE puts US$18m into long-duration energy storage manufacturing R&D

September 24, 2021
Four flow battery manufacturing research and development (R&D) projects will each receive a share of US$17.9 million funding from the US Department of Energy (DoE).
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