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Volkswagen commissions fast-charging park with 570 kWh of second-life MEB cell modules

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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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Volvo Buses in project researching use of second-life electric bus batteries to store solar energy

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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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sonnen accelerates US market efforts with solar-plus-storage technology package

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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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40 Tesla Megapacks replace WW2 turbojet generator in Belgium

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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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Liquid metal battery company Ambri raises $35M in Series C

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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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Liquid Metal Battery Corp secures patent rights from MIT

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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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Siemens presents three-point plan for implementing cost-efficient energy transition in Germany

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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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