Bengaluru : based cleantech startup Log 9 Materials, on October 21, announced $3.5 Mn (INR 25.22 Cr) funding in Series A round led by Exfinity Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital India’s accelerator programme Surge. Log 9 Materials will be using this funding for product development, and commercial and industrial deployment of aluminium fuel cell, which […]
The Arizona Battery Explosion Is Changing Conventional Wisdom on Safety
Six months later, GTM gets an exclusive update from APS and Fluence on an event that’s forcing a new look at grid battery engineering. It’s been nearly six months since an explosion ripped through a grid battery near Phoenix and upended the industry’s understanding of the technology’s safety. The McMicken conflagration injured first responders and […]
Nuclear power’s future is threatened by a mix of solar, wind and batteries
A mix of solar, wind and batteries threatens the future of nuclear power, Stars and Stripes By WILL WADE | Bloomberg September 28, 2019 The natural gas boom is killing America’s nuclear industry. Wind and solar may finish the job……. Battery prices have plunged 85% from 2010 through 2018, and huge storage plants are planned in California […]
Your Energy Storage Cheat Sheet: How to Impress at ESI
We can’t teach you social grace, but we can give you some decent icebreakers. After the socially challenging strip-mall accommodations of Anaheim last year, the good folks who make solar and energy storage happen are no doubt craving real interaction in some place resembling an actual community. And they’re in luck: Salt Lake City has […]
New Research Promises Electric Car Batteries That Last For a Million Miles
Electric motors guzzle electricity, which can be especially hard on a rechargeable battery. The power cells used in electric vehicles, like Teslas, have an expected lifespan of around 300,000 to 500,000 miles, but a team of battery researchers believes it has come up with a recipe that can double that, leading to batteries that could […]
The New Normal for the Grid: Batteries
On this week’s Energy Gang podcast: We dig into the latest project activity in energy storage. In nearly every corner of the country, energy storage projects are finding their way onto the grid — they’re getting bigger, cheaper, more diverse and even a little bit weirder. Most of all, they’re just becoming normal. This week, […]
Hawaiian Electric Seeks Bids for 900MW of ‘Dispatchable Renewables,’ Storage and Grid Services
The next round of RFPs will help meet Hawaii’s goal of 100 percent renewables by 2045 and replace two big power plants closing on Oahu and Maui in the next five years. On Thursday, Hawaiian Electric issued a long-awaited request for proposals for about 900 megawatts of renewable energy and energy storage projects. It’s the […]
Ameresco Plots Larger Role for Solar and Storage
The microgrids and energy-efficiency specialist says the number of viable markets for on-site solar and storage is growing. Ameresco is best known as a commercial and industrial energy services company, or ESCO, competing against giants like Honeywell, Siemens, Johnson Controls and a host of other national and regional providers on HVAC retrofits, LED lighting upgrades, […]
Vattenfall combines wind, solar and batteries in new hybrid energy park
Vattenfall is building a new hybrid energy park, consisting of solar panels, wind turbines and batteries at Haringvliet in the Netherlands. The total capacity is 60 MW, enough to deliver renewable energy to 40,000 Dutch households when operational I September 2020. The total investment is EUR 61 million. Through this project, Vattenfall combines wind turbines […]
Gold Is Hot But Nickel Is Hotter As Demand Grows For Batteries In Electric Vehicles
Gold is hot but there’s another metal which is hotter, nickel. Up 30% over the past two months nickel has delivered more than double the performance of gold which is up 13% over the same time, and the gap could get a lot wider as the supply of nickel stagnates and demand accelerates. The driving […]
