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New nanolithia cathodes may address technical drawbacks of Li-air batteries; scalable, cheap and safer Li-air battery system

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—Ju Li, the Battelle Energy Alliance Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT. You need large auxiliary systems to remove the carbon dioxide and water, and it’s very hard to do this.” But the new battery, which never needs to draw in any outside air, circumvents this issue.

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

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Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Beacon Power 20MW Flywheel Frequency Regulation Plant. Design, build, test, commission, and operate a utility-scale 20 MW flywheel energy storage frequency regulation plant in Chicago, Illinois, and provide frequency regulation services to the grid operator, the PJM Interconnection.

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

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Water (1 project). ENERGY STORAGE. 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. Affordable Energy from Water and Sunlight. Earlier post.)

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