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What is energy storage?

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Growing demand for renewable energy, an aging electrical grid, costly grid infrastructure improvements, and increasing extreme weather events will require increased energy flexibility to help the grid balance intermittent supply with responsive demand. In addition, these systems offer a wide range of benefits to energy users.

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DOE to provide $6M for research to develop energy storage technologies for deployment with fossil assets

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The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has announced up to $6 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development projects under the funding opportunity announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0002332 , Energy Storage for Fossil Power Generation.

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Southern California Edison to buy 261 MW of energy storage projects; largest grid-connected storage purchase in US

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In addition to five offers with new natural gas generation plants, SCE selected 69 offers from preferred resources and energy storage facilities. Preferred resources are methods of delivering electricity that are cleaner, or more environmentally sustainable, than traditional resources. NRG Energy. AES Energy Storage.

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Ford and Sunrun partnering to advance home energy management using F-150 Lightning

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Ford is partnering with solar company Sunrun to enhance home energy management, leveraging the onboard battery capability of the all-electric F-150 Lightning. —Matt Stover, Ford charging and energy services director. F-150 Lightning can also offer lower-cost energy storage in a product customers already own—their truck.

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Why EV Batteries Keep Getting Cheaper & Cleaner

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They do not know why EV batteries keep getting cheaper and cleaner, and they do not see why they will become truly abundant. There are still many people in the automotive industry and many policymakers who hold doubts about the future of fully battery electric vehicles (BEV). The thought is that they are too expensive […]

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GlobalData: hydrogen to become game changer as large-scale source of cleaner power

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GlobalData’s latest report, ‘ Thematic Research: Hydrogen ’, highlights that countries worldwide are striving to accelerate the development and use of hydrogen technology to tackle environmental concerns and enhance energy security. The availability of these sources is not always commensurate with demand for power.

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Georgia Tech team develops highly efficient multi-phase catalyst for SOFCs and other energy storage and conversion systems

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The catalyst is also readily applicable to other energy storage and conversion systems, including metal-air batteries, supercapacitors, electrolyzers, dye-sensitized solar cells, and photocatalysis. An open-access paper on their work appears in the journal Joule. This work demonstrates that a multi-phase catalyst coating (?