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ELIIY Begins Mass Production of Li-ion Batteries

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Keio University spin-out ELIIY Power Co., ELIIY plans to market stationary power systems for commercial and residential applications. Built at a cost of roughly 5 billion yen, the plant can make lithium ion battery cells with a charge capacity of 150 watt-hours at a rate of 200,000 cells a year. Earlier post.).

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Nissan and Endesa collaborating to deliver vehicle-to-grid systems to market

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Electricity generated by solar panels or wind turbines can be used to charge a vehicle, to power the home or business, or to feed back to the grid. Endesa will host a full demonstration of the market-ready and low cost system in Madrid on 12 March. —Paul Willcox, Chairman of Nissan Europe.

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California Energy Commission awards $1.1M to 12 small-scale projects to study transportation, natural gas and electricity technologies

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The California Energy Commission (CEC) is awarding $1,135,862 to 12 small-scale projects to research that will reduce the cost of producing electricity, save energy and improve the environment. will receive $95,000 to research the use of ceramic-metallic composite materials in thermal energy storage systems.

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New Li-S battery shows cycle performance comparable to that of Li-ion batteries along with more than double the energy density

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Lithium-sulfur batteries offer a great deal of promise as a next-generation battery technology, with the natural abundance and low cost of sulfur, coupled with the high theoretical energy density of sulfur-based cathodes: 1675 mAh g ?1 Credit: ACS, Lee et al. Click to enlarge. 1 and 2500 Wh kg ?1. —Lee et al.

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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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Notrees Wind Storage. Deploy a wind energy storage demonstration project at the Notrees Windpower Project in western Texas. Solid State Batteries for Grid-Scale Energy Storage. Demonstration of Isothermal Compressed Air Energy Storage to Support Renewable Energy Production. 21,806,232. 43,612,464. 16,080,554. 12,392,120.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. Electronville: High-Amperage Energy Storage Device-Energy Storage for the Neighborhood.

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