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BNEF ups forecast for global investment in stationary energy storage, sees majority of capacity likely to be grid-scale

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Energy storage installations around the world will multiply exponentially, from a modest 9GW/17GWh deployed as of 2018 to 1,095GW/2,850GWh by 2040, according to the latest forecast from research company BloombergNEF (BNEF). Global cumulative energy storage installations. Source: BloombergNEF.

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Sandy solution for renewable energy storage; Thermal Energy Storage System

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Sand is emerging as a key ingredient in the race to develop a viable electricity storage system for renewable energies. Australia-based Latent Heat Storage has developed a low cost thermal energy storage system based on the latent heat properties of silicon derived from sand.

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TransAlta to use Tesla stationary batteries in Alberta’s first large-scale commercial energy storage project

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TransAlta Corporation has been awarded $250,000 from Alberta Innovates - Energy & Environment Solutions (AI-EES) to help launch Alberta’s first large-scale commercial energy storage project. More than half of the total project costs will be covered by TransAlta as part of our commitment to the demonstration project.

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ARENA awards A$22.1M to 16 projects to accelerate exporting renewable hydrogen

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It is the first time ARENA had sought to fund research into the hydrogen energy supply chain. Hydrogen—or hydrogen carriers such as ammonia ( earlier post )are potentially ways for Australia to export renewable energy. Electrical energy can readily be converted into hydrogen via electrolysis.

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Utility solar dethrones coal as the cheapest power source in Asia

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The driving force behind this trend is the substantial reduction in capital costs for renewable energy projects. China leads the pack with a 40-70% cost reduction in utility-scale solar, onshore wind, and offshore wind compared to other Asia Pacific markets.

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UK to award £54M to 15 projects developing innovative carbon removal technology

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The novel SMART-DAC technology is a natural wind driven process that captures CO 2 directly from air using membrane gas absorption with a liquid absorbent and regeneration of the absorbent by electrodialysis. Rolls-Royce plc, “ENCORE (ENvironmental CO 2 REmover) Phase 2”.

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Could Zinc Gel Chemistry Outperform Flow Batteries?

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A new technology from Australia is certainly raising this prospect, offering a novel approach to stationary energy storage—whose packaging at least harkens back to the old, familiar car battery. He adds that non-flow technologies likely "have lower investment cost but the energy throughput is lower.