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Category: Energy Storage

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  • Energy Storage

GM Shares Secrets About Its New Revolutionary Battery Tech

GM shed some light on its EV tech research to produce much cheaper EV batteries, which will be key for its EV transformation. The automaker is experimenting with different types Continue Reading

Posted On : 9 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage
  • USA

EV-Battery Rivals Prod Biden With Rare Trade Veto in Balance

Two of the world’s largest electric-vehicle battery makers have hired top Washington insiders to hold near-daily meetings with the Biden administration in a battle that could affect the electrification plans of Ford Motor Continue Reading

Posted On : 8 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

KAUST team devises electrically-driven membrane process for seawater lithium mining

Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia have developed a continuous electrically-driven membrane process which successfully enriches lithium from seawater samples of the Red Continue Reading

Posted On : 5 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

California to Test Whether Big Batteries Can Stop Summer Blackouts

AES Corp. in January commissioned a 100-megawatt battery installation in Long Beach, California, using Fluence batteries. With summer’s heat approaching, California’s plan for avoiding a repeat of last year’s blackouts Continue Reading

Posted On : 3 Apr 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Canada
  • Energy Storage

Canada Could Become A Superpower In The Global Battery Market

“Canada has great potential to become a leader in the global Li-ion battery market,” a new analysis by Roskill states. The research firm published the insight following the announcement by Continue Reading

Posted On : 30 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Chalmers team develops structural battery that performs 10x better than previous versions

Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, in collaboration with KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, have produced a structural battery that performs ten times better than all previous versions. Continue Reading

Posted On : 24 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Mercedes-Benz starts production of battery systems for the new EQS and expands EV expertise

Mercedes-Benz has started producing high-performance batteries for its all-electric luxury EQS at its Stuttgart-Hedelfingen plant, as part of the Untertürkheim location in Germany, ahead of the sedan’s world premiere on Continue Reading

Posted On : 24 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

The Solid-State Race: Legacy Automakers Reach for Battery Breakthrough

Automakers are pairing off with battery companies to try to win the race to develop an electric vehicle battery that costs less and has a much longer range. The quest Continue Reading

Posted On : 20 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Battery Giant LG Chem To Invest $4.5 Billion In U.S. Expansion

LG Chem is prepared to invest $4.5 billion over the next five years to expand battery capacity in the United States. In a Thursday email, according to Bloomberg Green , Continue Reading

Posted On : 12 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

GM progressing on next-generation Ultium Li-metal battery; new joint development agreement with SES

At a Washington Post Live virtual conference, General Motors President Mark Reuss provided more details about GM’s next-generation Ultium lithium metal battery and announced a joint development agreement with lithium Continue Reading

Posted On : 12 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

U.S. Energy Storage Installations Up 183% In Q4 2020

U.S. energy storage boomed in the last quarter of 2020, with record 2,156 megawatt-hours (MWh) of new energy storage systems brought online, up by a massive?182 percent compared to the Continue Reading

Posted On : 6 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

GAC Group announces that its Aion V, sporting a graphene battery, will start production in September 2021

GAC Group recently announced “a major achievement in battery technology”. GAC stated that it achieved breakthrough progress with its graphene-based super-fast-charging battery and has now entered the phase of actual Continue Reading

Posted On : 3 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

New Battery Tech Could Make Solar Energy Storage Even Cheaper

US-based engineers have joined forces to develop high-voltage reference batteries for behind-the-meter energy storage applications, based on a bipolar technology that uses silicon wafers in traditional lead batteries. The wafers Continue Reading

Posted On : 2 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

QuantumScape (QS) Stock Soars After Company Reports on Battery Advance

QuantumScape Corp., an electric-vehicle-battery startup, soared as much as 12% in late trading after saying it cleared a key hurdle in the development of its technology. The company, which is attempting Continue Reading

Posted On : 26 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

FutureBridge expects cost-parity between solid-state and Li-ion batteries by 2025

Market analysis firm FutureBridge expects that cost-parity between Li-ion and solid-state batteries could be achieved in another five years. Solid-state batteries (SSBs) promise a leap forward, compared to incremental gains Continue Reading

Posted On : 24 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Investment In Battery Tech Exploded In 2020

Last fall Swedish lithium-ion battery maker Northvolt announced that it had raised $600 million in equity to invest in capacity expansion, research and development, and large-scale recycling. The capital raise Continue Reading

Posted On : 23 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

QuantumScape (QS) Stock Soars After Company Reports on Battery Advance

QuantumScape Corp., an electric-vehicle-battery startup, soared as much as 12% in late trading after saying it cleared a key hurdle in the development of its technology. The company, which is attempting Continue Reading

Posted On : 18 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

UNIST team develops new electrolyte additive for high-energy-density Li-ion batteries

Researchers at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in Korea have developed an innovative electrolyte additive that enables a high-energy-density Li-ion battery to retain more than 80% Continue Reading

Posted On : 15 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Uppsala team develops composite polymer dots for efficient, stable H2 production from water and sunlight

Researchers at Uppsala University have developed photocatalytic composite polymer nanoparticles (“polymer dots”) that show promising performance and stability for the production of hydrogen from water and sunlight. An open-access paper Continue Reading

Posted On : 15 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Utility-Scale Batteries Return 82% Of Stored Electricity

The utility-scale batteries operating in the United States had an efficiency of retrieving the stored electricity at 82 percent in 2019, data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) showed Continue Reading

Posted On : 13 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Corporate Investment In Battery Tech Has Exploded

At a time when the Covid-19 pandemic continues to decimate the global transport sector, the EV trajectory has remained incredibly bullish. S&P Global has reported that global EV sales expanded Continue Reading

Posted On : 11 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage
  • Europe

EC approves second major battery innovation project; €2.9B (US$3.5B) from 12 member states

The European Commission has approved , under EU State aid rules, a second Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI) to support research and innovation in the battery value chain. Continue Reading

Posted On : 8 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage
  • Renewables

Energy storage must present itself as a solution to renewable integration woes: McCarthy

Highlights Climate adviser eyes more innovation, faster deployment Storage must be built into system along with generation Must communicate ‘that we have solutions’ The energy storage industry must craft a Continue Reading

Posted On : 6 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage
  • Israel

Israeli Firm Releases EV Battery That Can Charge In 5 Minutes

An Israeli firm has announced the first superfast EV battery that can charge in just five minutes. The technology could spark a true EV revolution as it would eliminate one Continue Reading

Posted On : 21 Jan 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

The Miraculous Material Transforming Energy Storage

A material discovered less than two decades ago could become the key to safer, faster-charging and lighter batteries that power electronic devices, electric vehicles, and stationary energy storage. Since the Continue Reading

Posted On : 18 Jan 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Can Sea Water Batteries Solve Our Energy Storage Problem?

The stakes are rising with each passing day for energy storage. The world needs it, and it needs it cheaply and urgently, given all the plans in Europe, Asia, and Continue Reading

Posted On : 13 Jan 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

In boost for renewables, grid-scale battery storage is on the rise

Lithium-ion batteries in Germany. This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The twin smokestacks of the Moss Continue Reading

Posted On : 11 Jan 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

EV Battery Prices Plunge 89% In Ten Years

The price of a lithium-ion battery pack used to power an electric vehicle has plunged 89% in the last decade. It could drop even further in the next couple of Continue Reading

Posted On : 4 Jan 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

€12M Current Direct project seeks to support marine electrification with swappable containerized battery system

Current Direct , a new €12-million research and innovation project funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 program, is proposing an innovative lithium-ion cell optimized for waterborne transport, using novel Continue Reading

Posted On : 4 Jan 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Robots Are Creating The Super Batteries Of The Future

Artificial intelligence and robots are a hot topic of discussion, especially in the context of automation and job loss for humans. But they are also helping humans with a lot Continue Reading

Posted On : 1 Jan 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

The Hot Battery Startup That Could Zap Tesla

One of the wildest plotlines in the great 2020 electric-vehicle rally was the late-year rise of QuantumScape, QS -14.08% a battery startup that has yet to report any revenue. If investors are even close Continue Reading

Posted On : 1 Jan 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Will Batteries Kill Off Traditional Power Plants?

Many of us typically do not give much thought to the batteries that power our electronic devices other than when our cell phones, laptops, or EVs run out of juice. Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Dec 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Asia
  • Energy Storage

Asia Remains Undisputed Leader Of Battery Tech

The energy world is changing, and quicker than most experts predicted only a year ago. The adaptation of renewable energy technologies is accelerating, even during the pandemic, and three contenders Continue Reading

Posted On : 23 Dec 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • Energy Storage
  • USA

The U.S. Is Facing Off Against China For Energy Storage Dominance

Back in September, Chinese president Xi Jinping garnered a huge amount of attention and no small number of headlines on the global stage when he announced that Beijing’s new five-year Continue Reading

Posted On : 22 Dec 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage
  • USA

U.S. Looks To Boost Energy Storage By 525% By 2025

240 percent: this is the increase in battery storage capacity added in the United States during the third quarter of this year, compared with the second quarter. 240 percent is Continue Reading

Posted On : 22 Dec 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

DOE releases Energy Storage Grand Challenge Roadmap; 44% reduction in manufactured cost for 300-mile EV pack by 2030

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released the Energy Storage Grand Challenge Roadmap , the Department’s first comprehensive energy storage strategy. Announced in January 2020 by US Secretary of Energy Continue Reading

Posted On : 22 Dec 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Bremen orders five Mercedes-Benz eCitaro buses with solid-state batteries

Bremen’s public transport provider Bremer Straßenbahn AG (BSAG) has ordered five new Mercedes-Benz eCitaro electric buses equipped with solid-state batteries. Delivery of the locally emission-free eCitaro buses will take place Continue Reading

Posted On : 21 Dec 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

ORNL researchers develop new class of cobalt-free cathodes with enhanced energy density for next-gen Li-ion batteries: NFA

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) researchers have developed a new family of cobalt-free cathodes with the potential to replace the cobalt-based cathodes typically found in today’s lithium-ion batteries that power Continue Reading

Posted On : 19 Dec 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Battery

The lithium-ion battery that billions of people carry daily in their mobile phones is a Nobel Prize-winning scientific achievement. We’ve been living in the age of the lithium-ion battery ever Continue Reading

Posted On : 18 Dec 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Old Coal Mines Can Win a Second Life as Green Energy Hotspots – Bloomberg

Australia is studying plans to transform a disused underground coal mine into a pumped hydro facility, part of a wider effort to reuse retiring fossil fuel sites for renewable energy Continue Reading

Posted On : 18 Dec 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Solid Power now producing large form factor 22-layer 20 Ah solid-state cells, pathway to full automotive performance compliance

Solid Power, a developer of all solid-state batteries for electric vehicles, announced that its Louisville, Colo. facility is producing 20 Ah multi-layer all solid-state lithium metal batteries on the company’s Continue Reading

Posted On : 16 Dec 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Could This Cathode Breakthrough Make Batteries Cheaper?

More energy- and cost-efficient batteries will be key to accelerating the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) and increasing the share of renewable power generation as many countries pledge to make Continue Reading

Posted On : 14 Dec 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Hydro-Québec launches EVLO subsidiary specializing in energy storage systems

Hydro-Québec has launched EVLO Energy Storage Inc. ( EVLO ), a subsidiary that designs, sells, and operates safe, efficient and sustainable energy storage systems. These storage systems are intended mainly Continue Reading

Posted On : 10 Dec 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Britain Bets Big On Battery Storage

The UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has approved the construction of the biggest battery storage project in the UK, and one of the largest such projects Continue Reading

Posted On : 1 Dec 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

U.S. advanced battery startup Form Energy nabs $70 million in funding: CEO

Form Energy, a startup planning to make battery systems that can efficiently store wind and solar energy for long periods of time, recently landed its biggest batch of funding, its Continue Reading

Posted On : 14 Nov 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

New Breakthrough Could Boost Electric Vehicle Performance

The most popular battery technology, lithium-ion batteries, may have just received a big shot in the arm. Scientists have found in a new study that adding conductive carbon fillers to Continue Reading

Posted On : 12 Nov 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

Are Vanadium Flow Batteries The Future Of Utility-Scale Energy Storage?

Earlier this year, the California Energy Commission (CEC) published a $20 million solicitation to fund research projects for the deployment of long-duration energy storage. The objective was to develop a Continue Reading

Posted On : 6 Nov 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • Energy Storage
  • Wind

Tesla Project to Install Another Giant Battery in Australia

France’s Neoen SA will partner with Tesla Inc. to install one of the world’s biggest lithium-ion batteries in Australia after reaching a grid connection deal with the power market operator. The 300-megawatt Victorian Big Continue Reading

Posted On : 5 Nov 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage

The U.S. Army Doubles Down On Battery Technology

The U.S. Army is expanding research efforts to solve the current challenges to battery technologies and drive advancements in battery science and energy storage that will become increasingly critical with Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Oct 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Energy Storage
  • USA

Virginia utilities move ahead with energy storage, offshore wind efforts

As Virginia’s largest utilities continue to grow their renewable portfolios, they have partnered with some nonprofits and government entities to expand renewable energy storage in Southwest Virginia.  Dominion Energy said Continue Reading

Posted On : 15 Oct 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple

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