energy efficiency
Viridity Energy will develop and implement a project aimed at maximizing the economic and environmental value of energy resources at Thomas Jefferson University and Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals (Jefferson). The two have signed a letter of intent to develop a large-scale energy storage project that will allow Jefferson to strategically
energy storage
An energy future that’s both secure and low-carbon means more than just lots of solar panels and wind turbines: it will take lots of energy storage as well. Without a reliable, affordable and wide-scale means of storing energy, the intermittent power from sun, wind and tidal sources just won’
energy storage
Saft’s specialised Sunica.plus batteries will provide the energy storage at the heart of Eltek Valere’s innovative hybrid telecom power systems that are currently being rolled out to 80 mobile telecom sites across Nigeria. These co-location sites are being provided for Nigeria’s wireless operators on a fully
energy storage
EnerSys, which provides stored energy solutions for industrial applications, has purchased the lithium-ion battery business, ABSL Power Solutions Ltd. from CIP Industries L.P. Incorporated. ABSL has been supplying lithium-ion cells and batteries for defense and aerospace applications in Europe and the US since 2000. With annual revenues of more
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Dutch energy consulting firm KEMA is offering expanded energy storage performance testing solutions at its new laboratory located at the KEMA-Powertest facility in Chalfont, Pennsylvania. According to KEMA, the offering is the US’ first comprehensive component-to-megawatt-system testing service for the rapidly evolving energy-storage industry. KEMA’s energy storage performance testing
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Around the world, development of renewables has been speeding up, even if — in most regions — wind and solar energy continue to meet just a small proportion of energy needs. Still, every megawatt of capacity added somewhere is a good thing, another dent in our massive daily fossil-fuel budget, right? Yes
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Distributed energy storage across the electricity grid will help us take better advantage of renewable but intermittent power sources like wind, and thermal energy storage — making ice at night to provide cooling during the day — has a role to play. Under the energy storage bill passed in California last week,
energy storage
How can a technology known to ancient potters and spinners help create a 21st-century smart energy grid? A company based in Massachusetts aims to demonstrate when it begins operating the world’s first grid-scale, flywheel-based energy storage plant in New York later this year. Beacon Power Corporation is currently building
energy storage
With the UK facing increasing concerns over how to keep the lights on in years to come, one public-private partnership is hoping to test innovative energy storage technologies that can provide power to the nation’s households even when wind-energy turbines aren’t spinning and the sun isn’t shining
energy storage
Russia’s Federal Grid Company (FGC) has signed a deal with the New York-based battery maker Ener1 to find ways to use high-performance batteries to make the ageing Russian electrical grid smarter and more reliable. Russia, the world’s fourth-largest electricity market, has seen record-setting demand for power. After two
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Following is a guest commentary penned by Mark MacCracken, CEO, of CALMAC, which designs and manufactures energy storage for commercial air-conditioning systems: What’s with all the excess? Storing excess renewable resources, such as solar and wind, is vital in securing an energy-efficient future. To understand just how vital energy
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A proposed quest to develop an “ultra capacitor,” a new energy storage medium, has won two students from the University of California-Irvine the X PRIZE Foundation’s $25,000 (US) “What’s Your Crazy Green Idea” prize. The proposal by Kyle Good and Bryan Le earned them the highest number