Category: Energy Storage

The new era of big batteries has already drawn scrutiny after fiery electric-car crashes across America and Europe. Now, U.S. city planners are worried about the same risk of hard-to-control Continue Reading

Diy compressed air Going off-grid? Think twice before you invest in a battery system. Compressed air energy storage is the sustainable and resilient alternative to batteries, with much longer life Continue Reading

Europe may be left behind in its quest to establish itself as a major electric vehicle (EV) player if it doesn’t compete with the Asian market, according to representatives of Continue Reading

Maxwell Technologies is putting the lifetime value of its recently announced deal to provide ultracapacitor-based subsystems to Zhejiang Geely Holding Group (Geely), the parent company of leading brands such as Continue Reading

EEStor Corporation has developed a hybrid capacitor dielectric material (glass-CMBT) that is shown in independent third-party testing to provide higher permittivity at a significantly reduced cost to existing capacitor technologies Continue Reading

When Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced US$30 million in funding for energy storage projects at the beginning of this month, he drew praise from renewable energy-focused media as the Continue Reading

The quest for the perfect battery continues. Increasingly often called the Holy Grail of energy storage, it needs to be energy dense, cheap, and durable. Existing batteries usually fail in Continue Reading

Lithium, or “white petroleum” as some call it, has become a crucial element in today’s high-tech economy. Demand for lithium is soaring, and producers are frantically searching for new sources Continue Reading

One of the world’s biggest oil industry supermajors has teamed up with the global leader in electric cars in a new business venture and pilot project. British Petroleum (BP) has Continue Reading

In the battery industry, records seem set to be broken almost as soon as they are hit. This is what may be about to happen with the largest battery storage Continue Reading

New tech may turn your electric car into public power storage Half of all new cars sold will be EVs by 2040, estimates say When Damien Maguire moved to the Continue Reading

A research team led by the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed an economical and industrially viable strategy to produce graphene. The new technique addresses the long-standing challenge of Continue Reading

What would you think about a battery that sports five times the capacity of the average lithium-ion one? And then what if this batter was cheaper, and even more environmentally Continue Reading

Lithium-air batteries sound too good to be true—using the oxygen available in the air to produce electricity. Theoretically, they could become serious competitors to lithium-ion batteries; but so far, a Continue Reading

Researchers led by a team from MIT, with colleagues from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), BMW Group, and Tokyo Institute of Technology have developed a fundamentally new approach to alter ion mobility Continue Reading

Rolls-Royce has signed a collaboration agreement with UK-based technology start-up Superdielectrics Ltd to explore the potential of using novel hydrophilic polymers to create next-generation high-energy storage technology. Superdielectrics Ltd is Continue Reading

The race for cheaper, better batteries has never been more intense and more interesting. The latest contender comes from Australia, from RMIT University. It is a hybrid between a chemical Continue Reading

General Electric Co. GE 1.53% plans to unveil a new battery platform Wednesday as it seeks to become a leader in the emerging market of storing electricity. GE is set Continue Reading

New research published in Nature Communications reveals that manganese has a novel chemical state. According to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, this new state enables a Continue Reading

An array of solar panels and windmills. (Credit: PxHere) Scientists have discovered a novel chemical state of the element manganese. This chemical state, first proposed about 90 years ago, enables Continue Reading

General Electric Co. GE 1.53% plans to unveil a new battery platform Wednesday as it seeks to become a leader in the emerging market of storing electricity. GE is set Continue Reading

The inconsistencies of power produced by wind, water, and sunlight and the continuously fluctuating demand for energy often hinder renewable energy solutions. In a new paper, which appears in Renewable Continue Reading

By all measures, graphene shouldn’t exist. The fact it does comes down to a neat loophole in physics that sees an impossible 2D sheet of atoms act like a solid Continue Reading

Researchers at the University of California Santa Barbara have developed catalytic molten metals to pyrolize methane to release hydrogen and to form solid carbon. The insoluble carbon floats to the Continue Reading

MIT researchers have developed an “air-breathing” flow battery that exhales oxygen, stores power for months, and costs about one-fifth of what current storage batteries cost to run. Air-Breathing Battery To Continue Reading

Scientists have developed a ceramic pump that can operate at 1,400 ˚C, several hundred degrees hotter than existing heat transfer systems, opening up significant new possibilities for energy storage. Specifically, Continue Reading

A team of researchers from Stanford University has developed a battery using sodium that costs much less than lithium-ion batteries. The new batteries could offer a cheaper alternative to lithium Continue Reading

Aquion Energy’s abrupt bankruptcy filing in March left industry observers wondering what went so wrong, so quickly at the promising grid-battery startup. But now that the company has emerged from Continue Reading