The province’s energy needs are quickly rising, with the proliferation of electric vehicles and increasing manufacturing demand for electricity on the horizon. TORONTO : Ontario is staring down an electricity supply crunch and amid a rush to secure more power, it is plunging into the world of energy storage — a relatively unknown solution for […]
Rusty Batteries Could Greatly Improve Grid Energy Storage – EQ Mag
Iron-air batteries have a “reversible rust” cycle that could store and discharge energy for far longer and at less cost than lithium-ion technology A U.S. company is designing a large battery that it says could help decarbonize the nation’s power sector more cheaply than lithium-ion storage systems—and with domestic materials. The concept, known as the […]
Longer duration energy storage – EQ Mag
The UK’s energy system relies on the storage of fossil fuels to manage variations in supply and demand over varying timescales. As these are replaced to meet the net zero emissions target, new types of low-carbon, longer duration energy storage will be needed to provide secure energy supplies. This POSTnote examines different low-carbon storage technologies, […]
Energy storage and the energy transition – EQ Mag
The bulk of her time is taken up with carbon project development and trying to encourage a circular economy in South Africa. “Energy is the low hanging fruit to creating to stimulus to encourage reinvestment into water nexus and reforestation and all the other waste areas we should be looking at,” said Dean. Through her […]
Eight batteries to be built around Australia to increase renewable energy storage capacity – EQ Mag
Energy minister Chris Bowen says the batteries – shared between four states – will increase capacity tenfold to help stabilise the grid Eight large batteries to store renewable energy will be built around Australia to support the grid and help keep energy prices down, the federal government has said. The government-owned Australian Renewable Energy Agency […]
REPowerEU Rules on Accelerated Permitting Apply to all Energy Storage – EQ Mag
The European Parliament, in plenary session, voted on the REPowerEU amendments to the Renewable Energy, Energy Performance of Buildings and Energy Efficiency Directives. Unveiled in May, the objective of the Directives is to strengthen European energy security, jeopardised by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The European Commission proposal outlined new rules to speed up renewable […]
Greenko enters into partnership with NTPC for energy storage and flexible & despatchable RE power supply solutions – EQ Mag
Greenko Energies Pvt Ltd (Greenko) and NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam Ltd. (NVVN), a wholly owned subsidiary of NTPC Limited – India’s largest power generation with generation fleet in excess of 60 GW and transitioning into Renewables, have entered into an MOU with an intent to explore possibility of development of Renewable Energy (RE) based RTC, […]
Breaking News : Purchase of 250 MW Flexible & Schedulable Power Through Competitive Bidding Process – EQ Mag
Breaking News : Purchase of 250 MW Flexible & Schedulable Power Through Competitive Bidding Process.
Energy Storage Technology – EQ Mag
The Government agrees that in the initial phase of adoption of energy storage technologies, market mechanisms and innovative economic models will be required for development and deployment of energy storage technologies which would be most beneficial to the country in the long-term. The following initiatives have been taken to promote growth of energy storage technologies: […]
Private equity’s energy-storage bets begin to pay off – EQ Mag
Energy storage, once a sliver of the renewable-power generation sector, is becoming an asset class of its own, and some early private-equity backers of battery-project developers are beginning to reap the benefits. EnCap Investments, a Houston-based private-equity firm that focused exclusively on the oil-and-gas industry before putting money into energy storage in 2019, has exited […]