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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. —Anil Srivastava, CEO, Leclanché.

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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. Cell schematic.

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Thermal Energy Storage Is No Longer Just Hot Air

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That’s why interest in unconventional solutions for energy storage has taken off in recent years. Some companies have landed on thermal storage. Energy storage has two main factors—how fast it can be charged and discharged (the spigot) and how much total energy it can hold (the bathtub).

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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. Source: ARPA-E. Click to enlarge. —DE-FOA-0000949.

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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