Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2022

At the Zwickau vehicle plant, Volkswagen commissioned the first fast-charging park in Saxony supplied with energy largely from a power storage container (PSC). The PSC is an electricity storage unit and consists of 96 cell modules with a net capacity of 570 kWh. Residential areas are one example of where this could be used.

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Charging Audi Grid Power Storage 334

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Batteries from electric bus route 55 in Gothenburg, Sweden are being used for solar energy storage in a second-life application. The reuse and recycling of batteries is a key issue as increasing numbers of cities plan transition to electrically powered transport. IRIS is a Light House project, financed by EU HORIZON 2020.

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Store Volvo Solar Energy 273

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2016

and efficiency financing, to develop new financing for energy storage. Spruce, an expert in residential solar and efficiency financing, and sonnen are developing financing purely focused on residential electricity storage, and plan to make it available to sonnen's channel partners in the first quarter of 2016.

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Solar Market Los Angeles Financing 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2011

Liquid Metal Battery Corporation (LMBC), a Cambridge, Massachusetts company founded in 2010 to develop new forms of electric storage batteries that work in large, grid-scale applications, has secured the rights to key patent technology from MIT. —Luis Ortiz, LMBC’s President.

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MIT Battery Batteries Energy Storage 210

Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2014

Ambri, developer of Liquid Metal Battery grid-scale energy storage technology, closed a $35-million Series C equity financing. Ambri has raised more than $50 million in equity financing since its founding in 2010 and is the exclusive licensee of the Liquid Metal Battery intellectual property developed at MIT.

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Companies Battery Batteries Massachusetts 210

Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2013

To guarantee their supply commitments, they must secure their capacity with flexible power plants or with storage. This would create an energy market in which only the amount of electricity actually in demand is fed into the grid. One possibility here is auctions. European coordination of the energy transition.

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Germany Energy Renewable Grid 239

Teslarati

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The system now has 50 MW of power and 100 MWh of capacity and supports the local grid. Tesla noted that the Deux-Acren project, which installed the Megapacks, is now one of the largest storage systems in Europe. A pioneer in energy storage in France, Corsica Sole has been operating this type of plant in the French islands since 2015.

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Belgium Tesla Energy Storage Financing 105