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Energy storage: the key to a decarbonised future

Setec Powerr

We are transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, and the use of energy storage is becoming more widespread. And with the popularity of electric vehicles, the grid is under more and more pressure, so the demand for energy storage is growing. Battery storage.

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Rimac plans to introduce the European answer to the Tesla Megapack

Teslarati

Rimac has announced that it has started an energy storage division within its business, set to take on the likes of the Tesla Megapack. As the use of renewable energy systems like wind and solar has grown in popularity, the need for energy storage systems to back up these renewables has grown as well.

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Why battery storage can reduce demand charges?

Setec Powerr

For companies that invest in EV charging, deploying battery storage can reduce power demand charges. This article can answer all your doubts. Energy Consumption. To understand “demand”, we have to start with what your energy bill tells you. Typically, there are three parts to commercial energy bills: 1.

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The Importance of Recycling and Repurposing EV Batteries

Setec Powerr

This article focuses on the crucial process of EV battery recycling, highlighting its importance in the broader context of sustainable transportation and environmental stewardship. Valuable materials such as cobalt, nickel, lithium, and copper are then extracted and refined, removing impurities to meet quality standards for reuse.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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The need for large-scale electrochemical energy storage as a grid-stabilizing source of demand disappeared. When utilities considered storage technology at all in the succeeding decades, it was generally in the form of pumped-storage hydropower, an expensive piece of infrastructure that could be built only in hilly terrain.

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MIT team discovers new family of materials with best performance yet for oxygen evolution reaction; implications for fuel cells and Li-air batteries

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MIT researchers have found a new family of highly active catalyst materials that provides the best performance yet in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in electrochemical water-splitting—a key requirement for energy storage and delivery systems such as advanced fuel cells and lithium-air batteries. —Grimaud et al. “We

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Live Blog: Tesla (TSLA) 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders

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I will be updating this article in real-time, so please keep refreshing the page every minute or two to view the latest updates on this story. 15:48 PT – More energy storage projects will likely happen in Texas. 15:38 PT – Elon highlights the importance of solar and batteries. Credit: Tesla/YouTube.

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