Battery, Commercial, Installation and Power Storage

Sumitomo installs first large-scale power system using used EV batteries

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FEBRUARY 8, 2014

Sumitomo Corporation has developed and installed the first large-scale power storage system which utilizes used batteries collected from electric vehicles. This commercial scale storage system, built on Yume-shima Island, Osaka, will begin operating in February 2014. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

Installation

Installation Power Powered Batteries

Toshiba integrated hydrogen energy system starts operation at Toranomon Hills Business Tower in Tokyo

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JUNE 21, 2020

Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation (Toshiba ESS) announced that its hydrogen-based autonomous energy supply system H2One, which Toshiba ESS delivered and installed on the rooftop of Toranomon Hills Business Tower (Minato-ku, Tokyo), has started full-scale operation with the opening of commercial facilities.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Energy Solar Power Storage

BMW i home energy storage system integrates 2nd-life i3 vehicle batteries

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JUNE 21, 2016

BMW i announced a home stationary energy storage system solution integrating its BMW i3 vehicle battery at EVS 29 in Montréal. The system utilizes BMW i3 high-voltage batteries and can be expanded to incorporate second-life batteries as they become available in the market.

Energy Storage

Energy Storage BMW Energy Batteries

Corvus Energy’s marine lithium polymer battery pack used in Europe’s first hybrid tugboat

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MARCH 30, 2012

Lithium polymer battery packs from Corvus Energy were recently installed in Europe’s first hybrid tugboat, the RotorTug RT Adriaan of KOTUG, an international maritime service provider headquartered in The Netherlands. The conversion features Corvus’ AT6500 48 volt lithium polymer battery packs. Corvus uses Dow Kokam cells.

Polymer

Polymer Mariner Hybrid Lead Acid

Sanyo Installs Two Solar Parking Lots for Bikes and Provides 100 Hybrid Bikes in Tokyo

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MARCH 16, 2010

Bicycle parking lot in Sakurashinmachi, Setagaya, where Sanyo’s Smart Energy System “Solar Parking Lot” is installed. Top-right shows the box containing the lithium-ion battery systems and battery chargers. Sanyo is using its new Standard Battery System for Power Storage announced in November 2009 in the system.

Installation

Installation Solar Hybrid Lithium Ion

Mitsubishi Heavy to Enter Lithium-ion Secondary (Rechargeable) Battery Business

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AUGUST 26, 2009

MHI) has decided to build a commercial production verification plant in Nagasaki Prefecture and launch its operation by autumn 2010 in a move toward the company’s full-scale entry into the lithium-ion secondary (rechargeable) battery market. The commercial production verification plant, slated for.

Lithium Ion

Lithium Ion Recharge Mitsubishi Batteries

Toshiba to partner with Kawasaki City on 5-year demo of independent energy supply system utilizing solar power and hydrogen

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NOVEMBER 14, 2014

The independent energy supply system combines a 25 kW photovoltaic facility; a storage battery; hydrogen-producing water electrolysis equipment; hydrogen (275 Nm 3 ) and water tanks; and fuel cells. Hydrogen electrical power storage capacity is 350 kWh. Click to enlarge.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Supplies Solar Power

New nanolithia cathodes may address technical drawbacks of Li-air batteries; scalable, cheap and safer Li-air battery system

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JULY 25, 2016

An international team from MIT, Argonne National Laboratory and Peking University has demonstrated a lab-scale proof-of-concept of a new type of cathode for Li-air batteries that could overcome the current drawbacks to the technology, including a high potential gap (>1.2 V) V in O 2 (gas) → O x− (condensed phase), and η charging > 1.1

Cheap

Cheap Li-ion Batteries Battery

Mitsubishi Heavy develops containerized large-scale Li-ion energy storage system

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JUNE 16, 2011

MHI), has developed Japan’s first cargo container-type large-capacity energy storage system using Li-ion batteries. The system is capable of providing power of up to one megawatts (MW), and its mobility makes the system suitable for a wide range of applications, including emergency use. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.,

Li-ion

Li-ion Energy Storage Mitsubishi Energy

New Mitsubishi Electric regenerative power optimization technology for railways reduces total energy consumption by up to 5%

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FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has developed a new technology that reduces total railway energy consumption by up to 5% through efficient use of regenerative power from trains and optimized voltage control at multiple railway substations. Commercialization is targeted at the fiscal year beginning in April 2014. Click to enlarge.

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Mitsubishi Power Powered Energy

NYSERDA Awards Ultralife $2.4M for Advanced Energy Storage System

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APRIL 5, 2010

million by The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) for the design, development, prototyping, scale-up and installation of a 1 megawatt-hour advanced energy storage system on Ultralife’s Newark, New York corporate campus. Ultralife Corporation recently was awarded approximately $2.4

Energy Storage

Energy Storage Energy New York Lithium Ion

Daimler Buses introduces Citaro hybrid bus; available on diesel and gas models; separate 48V network

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OCTOBER 19, 2017

They are resistant to high power peaks and have a long life. Unlike batteries, supercaps are ideally suited to the continuous quick changeover between charging and discharging that occurs when stopping and pulling away again in typical city bus operation. Both the inverter and the electric motor are water-cooled.

Available

Available Hybrid Diesel Gas

DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

In the second group, an additional 16 awards for a total of $185 million will help fund utility-scale energy storage projects that will enhance the reliability and efficiency of the grid, while reducing the need for new electricity plants. Center for the Commercialization of Electric Technologies (TX).

Energy Storage

Energy Storage Grid Energy Wind

ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

ENERGY STORAGE. Planar Na-beta Batteries for Renewable Integration and Grid Applications. Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications.

Energy

Energy Grant Low Cost Li-ion

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Sumitomo installs first large-scale power system using used EV batteries

Toshiba integrated hydrogen energy system starts operation at Toranomon Hills Business Tower in Tokyo

BMW i home energy storage system integrates 2nd-life i3 vehicle batteries

Corvus Energy’s marine lithium polymer battery pack used in Europe’s first hybrid tugboat

Sanyo Installs Two Solar Parking Lots for Bikes and Provides 100 Hybrid Bikes in Tokyo

Mitsubishi Heavy to Enter Lithium-ion Secondary (Rechargeable) Battery Business

Toshiba to partner with Kawasaki City on 5-year demo of independent energy supply system utilizing solar power and hydrogen

New nanolithia cathodes may address technical drawbacks of Li-air batteries; scalable, cheap and safer Li-air battery system

Mitsubishi Heavy develops containerized large-scale Li-ion energy storage system

New Mitsubishi Electric regenerative power optimization technology for railways reduces total energy consumption by up to 5%

NYSERDA Awards Ultralife $2.4M for Advanced Energy Storage System

Daimler Buses introduces Citaro hybrid bus; available on diesel and gas models; separate 48V network

DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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