Chemists at the University of Waterloo have developed a long-lasting zinc-ion battery that costs half the price of current lithium-ion batteries and could help enable communities to shift aw... Read more
Design may support widespread use of solar and wind energy MIT researchers have engineered a new rechargeable flow battery that doesn’t rely on expensive membranes to generate and store elec... Read more
Design may support widespread use of solar and wind energy. MIT researchers have engineered a new rechargeable flow battery that doesn’t rely on expensive membranes to generate and store ele... Read more
Taking inspiration from trees, scientists have developed a battery made from a sliver of wood coated with tin that shows promise for becoming a tiny, long-lasting, efficient and environmenta... Read more
You could feed solar, wind and diesel into this system to ensure the availability of power CURRENTLY used in remote communities to regulate the unreliable electricity supply, the Grid Power... Read more
Deferring the Need for New Infrastructure for instance . . . Large-scale energy storage technologies are often hailed as a key to enabling increased use of intermittent renewable energy reso... Read more
One involves pumping water uphill, the other one involves compressing air Energy storage is the key to deploying wind and solar energy on a vast scale, but exactly how much of it will... Read more
China could be the largest market for grid energy storage technology China could be the largest market for grid energy storage technology, and now, according to battery maker BYD and China’s... Read more
The good news is that the flywheels are still making money Efforts to integrate storage into electric grids continue to struggle as a federally backed flywheel company goes bankrupt M... Read more
When the sun dips below the horizon for the night, most solar panels become interesting roofing tiles, instead of valuable generation resources. During the day, a single cloud can quickly se... Read more
In the future, the growing amounts of solar and wind energy will need to be stored for dark or low-wind periods. One solution is redox flow batteries that can supply current for up to 2000 h... Read more
Though considered a promising large-scale energy storage device, the vanadium redox battery’s use has been limited by its inability to work well in a wide range of temperatures and its... Read more