Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2020 00:53:19 +0000
This week, Tesla locked in a new patent for a distributed electrical grid management system, with capability to control everything from massive grid-scale energy storage installations down to your washing machine to keep everything humming along nicely
Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2020 14:00:59 +0000
The Tesla Powerwall 2 is one of the most advanced residential energy storage systems in the world, and it all starts with the batteries. The leadership highlights the fact that Tesla is not only a carmaker, but also a major battery company that sells its batteries in a variety of form factors, including cars like the Model 3 and stationary energy products like the Powerwall
Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2020 14:31:38 +0000
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Energy Storage startup SPARKZ Inc. has exclusively licensed five technologies from the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) designed to eliminate cobalt in lithium-ion batteries. The development portends a significant new direction for battery storage technology, which has been hindered by costs and availability of the rare metal. ORNL, which announced the […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 16:03:36 +0000
In Sacramento — as part of a deal with the local utility, Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) — Electrify America is putting $1.3 million into SMUD’s Energy StorageShares program
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 19:14:33 +0000
A big part of Livingston and Conroy’s pitch to the DoE was to leverage soon-to-be-commercialized oscillating disk technology in a mostly continuous tunneling model. This would entail not only having the oscillating disk cutter, but also automated ceiling bolting and shotcreting for tunnel stabilization
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 19:07:36 +0000
Pumped storage hydro has far more resource potential than required for a fully decarbonized grid and it’s cheap per megawatt-hour (MWh) of storage. The downside is that it’s slow to build, capital intensive, and heavily regulated right now in the United States. The Department of Energy FAST program aims to change that
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 23:32:23 +0000
One of the key take aways from the wind industry experience is that assuming that you have social license because of the virtuousness and safety of an electrical generation technology is a big mistake
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 23:24:04 +0000
One of the key take aways from the wind industry experience is that assuming that you have social license because of the virtuousness and safety of an electrical generation technology is a big mistake
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 02:30:04 +0000
The concept of putting floating solar panels on pumped hydro reservoirs is fascinating, but not a slam dunk. This 2nd article covers an additional six pros and cons
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 01:48:53 +0000
The concept of putting floating solar panels on pumped hydro reservoirs is fascinating, but not a slam dunk. This 1st article covers evaporation management