Energy Storage News
ENEL Acquires Energy Storage Software and Microgrid Project Developer Demand Energy
Enel Green Power has acquired a 100 percent stake in Demand Energy Networks, Inc. (“Demand Energy”), a Washington-based provider of intelligent software and energy storage systems. Demand Energy has taken a central role in microgrid projects in New York…
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Off-grid: When hybrid plus storage makes sense
Reducing the reliance on costly diesel-based power generation is high on the list of priorities for off-grid operators around the world. PV-hybrid systems alone can only go so far in meeting this need. The addition of storage can significantly alter…
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War of Currents Unsettled as Distributed Energy, Efficient Loads, and Microgrids Go DC
Universities, companies, and governments have been lining up for years to demonstrate the potential of DC microgrids, and the next generation of DC microgrid architectures are moving beyond demonstration projects to real world deployment on military bases, homes, industrial…
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Renewable Energy Integration with Mini/Microgrid: A novel use of the hybrid energy storage system for primary frequency control in a microgrid
High penetration of renewable energy causes fluctuations of power flow and results in system frequency fluctuation, which significantly affects the power system operation. The situation in microgrid (MG) is worse because of the low inertia and small time constant of…
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Energy Storage Blockchain 'Like Early Days of the Internet"
“When the internet was first introduced, it was hard to conceive of the drastic impact it would have on the world. We’ve got all the parts to do some really interesting things Scott Clavenna - CEO of Greentech Media on…
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The Emerging Internet of Energy Heats Up Underpinned by Energy Storage
Aiming to unify distributed renewable energy, energy storage and smart grid systems – not to mention numerous and varied connected devices and equipment in homes, businesses and industry – microgrids have quickly emerged as a key element of integrated climate-energy…
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Energy Storage and Autonomous Electric Vehicles: The Real Monopoly Utility Killer?
The bulk power system we’ve relied on for the last century is remarkably inefficient. Due to waste heat and transmission losses, less than 30% of energy inputs in thermal power plants actually make it to residential electric meters. Distributed energy…
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Brooklyn Startup Opens Doors To P2P Energy Storage Exchange
Back in the 1990s the advent of peer-to-peer (P2P) computing sites such as Napster turned reproduction and distribution of music, then TV programs and films, upside down and inside out. A small Brooklyn startup is now looking to do the…
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Connecting the Dots Along the Emerging Energy Internet of Things
Aiming to unify distributed renewable energy, energy storage and smart grid systems – not to mention numerous and varied connected devices and equipment in homes, businesses and industry – microgrids have quickly emerged as a key element of integrated climate-energy…
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Packed bed thermal energy storage: A simplified experimentally validated model
Thermal energy storage in packed beds is receiving increased attention as a necessary component for efficient implementation of concentrated solar power plants. A simplified, one-equation thermal model for the behavior of a packed bed is presented for a-alumina as solid…
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Will Autonomous Electric Vehicles Be The Real Electric Monopoly Utility Killer?
The bulk power system we’ve relied on for the last century is remarkably inefficient. Due to waste heat and transmission losses, less than 30% of energy inputs in thermal power plants actually make it to residential electric meters. Distributed energy…
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"It's Like The Early Days Of The Internet," As Energy Markets Brace for Blockchain Disruption
“When the internet was first introduced, it was hard to conceive of the drastic impact it would have on the world. We’ve got all the parts to do some really interesting things Scott Clavenna - CEO of Greentech Media on…
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San Diego Seeking Energy Storage Proposals As Part of Major Preferred Energy Resources Procurement
Following through on its commitment and legal obligation to help meet California’s clean energy and climate change mitigation goals, San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) is seeking out proposals to add as much as 140 MW of “preferred energy resources”…
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Tesla Building Largest Lithium Ion Battery Storage Project In The World After Aliso Canyon Fallout
Upon completion, this system will be the largest lithium ion battery storage project in the world. Tesla was the only bidder awarded a utility-owned storage project out of the solicitation. Tesla has announced a major Los Angeles, California energy storage…
Read more →Naval Multi-Physics Lab Adds Ice Energy Storage to its Renewable Microgrid
The addition of Calmac's IceBank energy storage technology is the latest in the US Naval Postgraduate School Multi-Physics Lab's efforts to design, test and build an integrated renewable energy-storage microgrid on its Monterey, California campus.
Read more →Twenty Megawatt Solar-Storage Microgrid Installed at the “Roof of the World”
Up and running in Shuanghu on the Tibetan plateau, Sungrow's PV solar-energy storage microgrid provides affordable, reliable emissions-free electricity to more than 14,000 residents.
Read more →Share&Charge Blockchain EV Charging Sharing Network Moves into Beta
Germany's Block.it's Share&Charge mobile app resides atop Ethereum secure blockchain distributed database technology to offer EV charging station owners a means of generating income from their investments.
Read more →Tabuchi America Joins Electric & Gas Industries Association to Launch “Solar Plus Storage” Loan Program
The US subsidiary of one of the world's largest solar inverter manufacturers, Tabuchi has partnered with energy efficiency and renewable energy advocacy EGIA to launch the $300 million GEOSmart SolPower residential solar-plus-storage financing program, the largest of its kind to date.
Read more →Sharp Launches New Mid-Tier, C&I Solar-Energy Storage Financing Program
Sharp's Energy Systems & Services Group expects to finance more than 12 MWs worth of hybrid commercial and industrial (C&I) “solar plus storage” projects in the next 12 months.
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Unusual Renewable Energy Sources May Help Reduce Carbon Emissions
In a 2012 study from Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, researchers from the University of Almería discovered that the conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) into biomass by microalgae could reduce overall CO2 emissions by up to 80 percent. That figure…
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