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OCTOBER 27, 2022

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has received approval to establish the nation’s first vehicle-to-grid (V2G) export compensation mechanism for commercial electric vehicle (EV) charging customers in its California service area. —Aaron August, PG&E Vice President, Utility Partnerships and Innovation.

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JULY 15, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released the Energy Storage Grand Challenge Draft Roadmap and a Request for Information (RFI) seeking stakeholder input on the Draft Roadmap. Categories of storage included in the Energy Storage Grand Challenge. Over the Fiscal Years 2017-2019, DOE has invested more than $1.2

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JANUARY 10, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) launched the Energy Storage Grand Challenge , a comprehensive program to accelerate the development, commercialization, and utilization of next-generation energy storage technologies.

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MARCH 23, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has released a set of reports— Pathways to Commercial Liftoff —that provide guidance for bringing advanced nuclear, clean hydrogen and long-duration energy storage into the commercial mainstream. DOE also encourages direct public input.

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

General Motors introduced Ultium Home and Ultium Commercial, which in combination with the existing Ultium Charge 360, create an ecosystem of energy management products and services that will be housed under a new business unit called GM Energy.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Stealth-mode electrochemical energy storage startup SPARKZ Inc. has exclusively licensed five battery technologies from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) designed to eliminate the use of cobalt metal in lithium-ion batteries. SPARKZ Inc. —SPARKZ Inc. CEO Sanjiv Malhotra. SPARKZ Inc.

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APRIL 9, 2023

The Megafactory is planned to initially produce up to 10,000 units of commercial energy storage batteries per year, with an energy storage scale of nearly 40 GWh, and the product will be available to the global markets.

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JULY 18, 2018

Southwest Research Institute has opened a new Energy Storage Technology Center , bringing its diverse scientific research, development and evaluation of energy storage systems under one roof. We now have 10 times the laboratory space devoted to energy storage research and testing.

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JULY 16, 2020

Hitachi ABB Power Grids has launched Grid-eMotion Fleet, a scalable, modular and fully customizable solution for large-scale EV charging of smart public and commercial transport. Grid-eMotion Fleet comes in standard containers that integrate the grid connection and charging systems.

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JUNE 11, 2018

MAN Diesel & Turbo Schweiz AG has signed a cooperation agreement with ABB Switzerland for the development, production and commercialization of a three-way energy-storage system. The new Electro-Thermal Energy Storage system (ETES) stores large-scale electricity, heat and cold for distribution to consumers.

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MARCH 30, 2014

and Demansys Energy LLC reached an agreement to perform a demonstration project utilizing Hitachi’s “CrystEna” (Crystal+Energy) compact 1 MW container-type energy storage system in the market for frequency regulation and capacity services, and that site installation work will soon commence. Hitachi America, Ltd.,

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MAY 12, 2020

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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NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Australia-based Latent Heat Storage has developed a low cost thermal energy storage system based on the latent heat properties of silicon derived from sand. The TESS device stores electricity as thermal energy by heating and melting containers full of silicon. —Jonathan Whalley. —Jonathan Whalley.

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JANUARY 22, 2015

Eos Energy Storage announced the commercial availability of its MW-scale Aurora system for deliveries starting in 2016. Eos’s grid-scale product is designed to reliably integrate renewable energy, improve grid efficiency and resiliency, and reduce costs for utilities and consumers.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Eos Energy, a provider of safe, scalable, efficient, and sustainable zinc-powered long-duration stationary energy storage systems, announced Project AMAZE (American Made Zinc Energy), a $500-million planned expansion and a significant milestone to build 8 GWh of clean energy storage production capacity.

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DECEMBER 19, 2012

Invenergy LLC, a Chicago-based renewable energy generation company, and Xtreme Power, a provider of real-time power management and energy storage solutions, launched a joint venture to deploy a fast-acting energy storage system in Illinois. Efficient frequency regulation is essential for PJM’s grid reliability.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy is awarding $620 million for projects around the country to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems. Smart grid regional demonstrations involving plug-in vehicles include (ranked by DOE funding): Columbus Southern Power Company (doing business as AEP Ohio).

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MARCH 18, 2021

a leader in non-aqueous sodium-ion battery technolog ( earlier post ), announced a collaboration which combines Faradion’s IP with AMTE Power’s design and manufacturing capabilities. These trends will drive a significant increase in the use of battery storage. UK-based battery manufacturer AMTE Power and Faradion Ltd. ,

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JULY 14, 2015

Dynapower Company will be supplying the 250 kW energy storage inverters as an integral part of Tesla’s recently announced Powerpack Commercial battery systems for large commercial and utility customers. Tesla’s Powerpack systems are designed for large commercial, industrial, and utility-scale applications.

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AUGUST 1, 2022

By investing in VoltStorage, we are taking steps to advance solutions focused on the grid and energy storage. VoltStorage develops and produces commercial storage systems based on the particularly ecological vanadium redox flow technology for commercial and agricultural enterprises.

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JUNE 15, 2015

Nissan Motor Company and Green Charge Networks, a provider of commercial energy storage, are partnering to deploy second-life Li-ion vehicle batteries for stationary commercial energy storage in the US and international markets. General availability is targeted for Q4 2015. formed in 2010. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 24, 2023

TAE Power Solutions intends to deliver a novel technology to improve fundamentally the reliability, efficiency, longevity, and affordability of electric-powered products, from vehicles to renewable energy storage. The path to Power Solutions began with TAE solving a power problem for fusion.

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MARCH 11, 2021

ion Ventures, a modern utility and energy storage infrastructure specialist, and LiNa Energy , a solid-state battery technology developer, concluded their first successful trial of LiNa’s proprietary solid-state sodium-nickel battery platform at an undisclosed location in South East England last week.

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MARCH 12, 2015

The California Energy Commission (CEC) has awarded $2.1 million to Eos Energy Storage, LLC to demonstrate an AC-integrated system incorporating the company’s zinc hybrid-cathode battery technology (“Zynth”) to enhance renewable energy generation and provide grid-scale, multi-hour energy storage.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

(KTSi) have signed a long-term cooperation Agreement to advance and promote innovative, clean flywheel-based energy storage and recycling systems for mass transit rail and grid applications. The two companies will work to globally promote composite flywheel technology. —Alex Burns, CEO of Williams F1.

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JUNE 6, 2023

Deployments of clean hydrogen to decarbonize industry, transportation, and the power grid can enable 10 MMT/year of demand by 2030, ~20 MMT/year of demand by 2040, and ~50 MMT in 2050. It also incorporates findings from DOE’s March 2023 report, Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Clean Hydrogen. Source: DOE.

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MARCH 11, 2023

They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. And EV owners would become entrepreneurs, selling electricity back to the grid. And indeed, that’s how promoters of vehicle-to-grid technology perceive the EV.

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JULY 30, 2015

CalCharge , a California initiative designed to accelerate breakthrough energy storage technologies, welcomed six new member companies, including Bosch and Toyota Motor Corporation. The CalCharge CRADAs also help national labs, funded by the Department of Energy, find and work with pioneering companies. CalChargeLLNL.

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DECEMBER 6, 2013

SolarCity has unveiled a smart energy storage system to address rising utility demand charges and increasing grid outages affecting businesses. SolarCity points out that the utility grid is aging and outages are increasing. Elon Musk is the Chairman of Solar City, and Chairman and CEO of Tesla Motors.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The ultimate aim of the research is to facilitate improvements in batteries used for transport and other applications such as grid storage with improved performance and cost characteristics. The fourth is seeking to address the scientific barriers facing the commercial realisation of solid-state batteries.

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APRIL 23, 2015

Eguana Technologies, a supplier of power control and conversion solutions for distributed energy storage systems and Li-ion manufacturer LG Chem have combined their technologies under a multi-year agreement to deliver a certified, fully integrated energy storage system (ESS) Eguana calls “AC Battery”.

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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. —Professor Aguey-Zinsou.

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JANUARY 12, 2021

Russelectric, a manufacturer of distributed energy and microgrid control systems for mission-critical commercial facilities that was acquired by Siemens in 2018, has added electrical vehicle charging capabilities at its Hingham, Massachusetts, facility. kW (30A), thus providing a full charge for most EVs in under four hours.

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APRIL 21, 2022

As the number of EVs grows and especially as larger trucks and buses electrify with larger batteries, there will be opportunities to use those batteries also to support the grid. A bidirectional fleet could also create new revenue opportunities for EV owners or fleets.

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MAY 1, 2013

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) awarded a total of $1.4 million to six companies engaged in researching and developing energy storage systems. Funding recipients are all members of the NY Battery and Energy Storage Technology (NY-BEST) Consortium. Eos Energy Storage, $250,000.

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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 has been designed to be integrated into the house energy supply chain. The “plug and play” nature of the BMW i3 battery application in this system is a key element in its design.

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JULY 20, 2012

A123 Systems will supply a 2MW grid Li-ion energy storage system to Ray Power Systems Co. The project in China will be designed to validate the technical capabilities and benefits of energy storage as a fast-ramping, accurate and clean resource for providing frequency regulation services.

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