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NOVEMBER 15, 2012

launched its lithium-ion energy storage system for home usage. Asia is another key market, with an incomplete electric grid, and we believe there will be a large market opportunity in North America, where we’re paying twice as much for peak power and need a way to store cheap off-peak power. Electrovaya Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2015

a provider of energy intelligence software (EIS), will collaborate with Tesla on the deployment and management of energy storage systems in commercial and industrial buildings. Tesla announced its PowerWall line of stationary Li-ion battery storage systems last night. EnerNOC, Inc., Earlier post.).

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 30, 2021

In the past week, CleanTechnica readers were most attracted to stories about cool & cheap electric motorcycles, an Australian pastime that electric vehicles are sure to kill, and the standard-range Tesla Model 3 and Model Y getting LFP batteries.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Specific energies and energy densities including conversion losses. The award-winning POWERPASTE technology is patented (EU, US) and offers advantages over other energy storage technologies, in particular in the power range from 100 W to 10 kW, Fraunhofer researchers said. Source: Fraunhofer IFAM. —Marcus Vogt.

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DECEMBER 10, 2018

Volvo Buses is participating in a research project in which used electric bus batteries are used as solar energy storage units. Batteries from electric bus route 55 in Gothenburg, Sweden are being used for solar energy storage in a second-life application. What we are examining here is exactly how good that potential is.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2015

Stanford University scientists have created a new ultrahigh surface area three-dimensional porous graphitic carbon material that significantly boosts the performance of energy-storage technologies. Our designer carbon is simple to make, relatively cheap and meets all of the critical requirements for high-performance electrodes.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 16, 2023

The new organization aims to bridge gaps between organizations that research, manufacture, and deploy large-scale energy storage systems. Granted that this technology remains the incumbent for some time to come, Whittingham has concerns—big concerns—about how the world makes and uses these energy storage devices.

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JULY 14, 2022

Cheap and abundant, sodium is a promising candidate for new battery technology. Now, a research team from the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has developed a new electrolyte enabling a high-voltage sodium-ion battery with greatly extended longevity in laboratory tests.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

—James Frith, BNEF’s head of energy storage. Key distinguishing factors are the environmental footprint of industry, the availability of cheap but clean electricity, a technically skilled labor force, and incentives driving battery demand.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2019

Professor Kondo-Francois Aguey-Zinsou and his team at UNSW’s School of Chemical Engineering have developed a system that provides cheap storage and transportation of hydrogen which they expect will provide a new alternative for energy storage within two years. with a particle size below 10 nm).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2017

In the UK, Renault and Powervault are partnering to re-use electric vehicle (EV) batteries in home energy storage units. This partnership will reduce the cost of a Powervault smart battery unit by 30%, helping Powervault to bring home energy storage to the tipping point of mass-market roll-out in the UK.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2018

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have now developed a method to use this cheap and abundant waste byproduct to build a components for lithium-sulfur batteries. 1 , suggesting its promising potential for applications in the field of high energy storage devices. Click to enlarge. Lu Li, Liping Huang, Robert J.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2014

In the journal Nature Materials , the team led by professor Keith Stevenson reports a new energy storage mechanism for pseudocapacitor electrodes that promises to boost the energy density and power density of pseudocapacitor devices. —Mefford et al. —Tyler Mefford, graduate student and lead author.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2017

On behalf of the Australian Government, ARENA has provided A$5 million (US$4 million) in funding to Wollongong-based AquaHydrex to develop commercially its new class of electrolyzer to produce cheap hydrogen from splitting water. In the future, there will be increasing amounts of surplus renewable energy when it is sunny or windy.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 31, 2021

Another week has flown by and we’ve got another roundup of our top (most popular) stories of the week. This past week, the interest (and content) was all over the map, as it was last week. Hydrogen trains in California, the various tech options on the market when upgrading your water heater, and the US […].

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2019

The researchers also concluded that the energy market sector and its use of the lead-acid battery will continue to grow with significant expansion in use for storage in renewable energy systems.

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Innovation News Network

JULY 14, 2022

Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has developed a sodium-ion battery with greatly extended longevity in laboratory tests. Sodium is a chemical element that is considered cheap, abundant, and a promising candidate for new battery technology.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

A decade ago it became possible to get your electricity in the UK from a department store chain (though with the actual power supplied first by a Scottish utility and— as of 2018 —arranged and managed by Octopus Energy). Newer entrants, potential energy powerhouses, are on the rise in Italy, Spain and Denmark.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Demand segments include hydrogen as a fuel for fuel cells, in both transport and stationary applications (the power-to-transport and power-to-power vectors, respectively) and for energy storage (the power-to-gas vector). —Kerry-Ann Adamson, research director with Navigant Research.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 15, 2022

Scientists have been looking for solutions in gravity energy storage , thermal or geothermal storage , and also molten-salt batteries. While rechargeable batteries are the solution of choice for consumer-level use, they are impractical for grid-scale consideration.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

A Battery for Heat Made from Sand Noted chemical engineer Donald Sadoway is quoted as saying: “If you want to make a dirt-cheap battery, you have to make it out of dirt.” Polar Night Energy’s system faces the same core challenges as any other energy infrastructure. Sand is efficient, nontoxic, portable, and cheap!”. “We

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JANUARY 24, 2024

Sodium-Ion batteries can be extensively used in smaller, low-range electric vehicles and stationary applications like home energy storage systems. Sodium-ion batteries work better in EVs that don’t need a large driving range, such as city cars small cars and last-mile delivery vehicles because of their lower energy density.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2019

Electrolysis of water to generate hydrogen fuel is an attractive renewable energy storage technology. Developing cheap electrocatalysts and electrodes that can sustain seawater splitting without chloride corrosion could address the water scarcity issue. Dai, Yun Kuang, Michael Kenney).

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Setec Powerr

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Staggered electricity consumption to reduce operating costs The Emergency mobile EV charging system has an energy storage system, so it can replenish its power during off-peak hours when electricity is cheap. It is less difficult to maintain than fixed charging facilities, so the cost is significantly reduced.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

But while low costs support a continued boom in renewables investments, there is concern among investors on profitability, grid integration, backup, and energy storage.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Moreover, it is a cheap carbon source which can increase the atom utilization of CO 2 hydrogenation due to the stoichiometric ratio of C and O atoms, as well as reducing the formation of water. … wind and solar power) to act as an efficient chemical energy storage localized or distributed system.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2014

Researchers at Harvard have demonstrated a metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery—a quinone–bromide flow battery (QBFB)—as an example of a class of energy storage materials that exploits the favorable chemical and electrochemical properties of a family of molecules known as quinones. —Huskinson et al.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2022

It’s about one-twentieth the size of the minibus-scale geostationary satellites already in orbit, allowing for cheap and quick deployment. China's Big Hydro Plans China is in the midst of a gigantic buildup of hydro-energy capabilities. But this satellite is the first of a new breed, dubbed microGEO.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2013

The methods had to be nondestructive, simple and cheap—using as few sensors, electronics and supporting hardware as possible while still remaining effective at identifying and decreasing sulfation. In a recent study, the researchers looked for ways to improve regular battery management practices.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2011

The flywheel technology is relatively cheap. Since the flywheel is activated by braking and the duration of the energy storage—i.e.,the If the tests and technical development go as planned, we expect cars with flywheel technology to reach the showrooms within a few years.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2010

Gasoline is too cheap. Right now we are operating with a grid that was not adequate at middle of the last century. The challenge is demand creation. If you build it, they aren’t coming. —Mary Ann Wright.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2014

The electrochemical conversion of CO 2 and H 2 O into liquid fuel is ideal for high-density renewable energy storage and could provide an incentive for CO 2 capture. We have a solution to this problem that’s made of copper, which is cheap and abundant. —Matthew Kanan.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce. The need for large-scale electrochemical energy storage as a grid-stabilizing source of demand disappeared.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

ARPA-E’s first solicitation, announced earlier this year, was highly competitive and resulted in awarding $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2015

Lux’s Energy Storage team has found that despite the hype around graphene as a material to displace activated carbon in supercapacitors, graphene will lag behind other active materials and will struggle to beat incumbents. Further, graphene products need be compelling enough to justify their higher upfront price tags. Lux suggested.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2015

Consequently, the authors noted, research has focused on developing alternative, cheap, and robust catalysts made from earth-abundant elements. However, while platinum may be acceptable for making jewelry and low volume specialty applications, it is too expensive for large-scale applications such as energy storage and conversion.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2011

The US Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is conducting research on alternative options to reduce costs and make large-scale energy storage safer and more practical. Innovative fabrication methods can also lead to significant energy storage system improvements.

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