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Thermal Energy Storage Is No Longer Just Hot Air

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Cheesecake is part of a cohort of companies trying to meet a growing need for alternative forms of energy storage. As countries transition away from fossil fuels to green sources of energy like wind and solar, there will be natural lulls in energy production due to weather conditions.

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Leclanché expands marine electrification solution to include fast charger for ports, harbors and vessels; Damen 1st adopter

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Expanding its portfolio of solutions for the marine electrification industry, Leclanché is introducing a new “ports and harbor” infrastructure solution enabling hybrid and fully electric vessels to fast charge when returning to port. The Ontario ports and harbor systems are equipped with a 3.0 —Anil Srivastava, CEO, Leclanché.

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ICL model predicts lithium-ion batteries most competitive for storage applications by 2030

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levelized cost)—as opposed to the investment cost—of 9 electricity storage technologies for 12 different applications between 2015 and 2050. Oliver Schmidt, Sylvain Melchior, Adam Hawkes, Iain Staffell (2018) “Projecting the Future Levelized Cost of Electricity Storage Technologies,” Joule doi: 10.1016/j.joule.2018.12.008.

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Harvard team demonstrates new metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery; potential breakthrough for low-cost grid-scale storage

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Discharge mode is shown; the arrows are reversed for electrolytic/charge mode. In a paper in Nature , they suggest that the use of such redox-active organic molecules instead of redox-active metals represents a new and promising direction for realizing massive electrical energy storage at greatly reduced cost.

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New $30M ARPA-E program to develop new solar conversion and storage technologies; targeting higher solar penetration in mix

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Schematic comparing the cost and dispatchability of PV to CSP with thermal storage. The “PV+Storage” box includes the high cost of electrical storage for PV. The FOCUS Program target zone for electricity generation is indicated. of US primary energy, and the deployment of these technologies is growing only slowly.

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Electric Vehicles Open-up New Business Opportunities

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The EVSE or electric vehicle chargers are necessary for electric vehicles to charge from the power socket. There is a business opportunity to manufacture electric vehicle chargers. Here we mainly consider the level 2 charger for electric vehicles. Along with electric cars. Magenta Charge Grid. #3