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Off-grid energy storage market to grow at a 6% CAGR from 2011 to 2016
Battery, flywheel, ultracapacitor and fuel cell developers need to act now if they wish to tap the USD 4 billion market for off-grid applications, says Lux Research.
Better Batteries Will Save the World
In the early 1970s, the research arm of Exxon hired a promising young engineer named Michael Stanley Whittingham and asked him to invent something—anything—that could reduce the company's dependence on crude oil. Whittingham and a team holed up at an Exxon R & D lab in New Jersey, and, as engineers are wont to do, started mixing together chemicals to see what would happen.
'Stretching' Technology Could Improve Battery Performance
Designing new materials depends upon understanding the properties of today's materials. One such material, Nafion, is a polymer that efficiently conducts ions (a polymer electrolyte) and water through its nanostructure, making it important for many energy-related industrial applications, including in fuel cells, organic batteries, and reverse-osmosis water purification.
The World’s First Baseload (24/7) Solar Power Plant
In the future solar power plants will be as plentiful as personal computers or cell phones are today and they will generate energy on demand. Today I have witnessed the future of energy: a solar power plant capable of generating solar electricity around the clock.
FBI Using Combined Wind/Solar/Energy-Storage System To Provide Power To Remote Locations
The Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Audio Technology Deployment Unit Power Sources Program will incorporate a new power system that includes wind power, solar energy, fuel cells, and a state-of-the-art energy-storage and power-distribution system.
Citing Concerns For Energy-Storage Market, FERC Reconsiders Rules For Ancillary-Services Providers
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has issued a notice of inquiry (NOI) regarding the requirement that competitive ancillary-services providers prove they lack market power before selling their services at market-based rates.
In a blackout? Nissan wants Leaf to power your house
Everyone's looking for an edge in the electric vehicle wars, and Nissan might have one. It's working on a system that would allow Leaf owners to use the car to supply electricity to their houses during power outages.
Buffett-backed Chinese auto, battery maker BYD raising $220 million in China share offering
Chinese car and battery maker BYD Co. is raising 1.42 billion yuan ($220 million) in a share offering aimed at raising cash for a major expansion.
Home Energy Storage and Safer Battery Being Developed for EVs
Researchers in the University of Leichester are developing a battery for electric vehicles that is lighter and more environment-friendly, with a potential of replacing lithium-ion, today's E.V. battery of choice.
Lessons spark new drive in China
Global giants such as Volkswagen and General Motors have been in the country since the early days of the boom, and as a result the roads are dominated by vehicles bearing foreign badges, even if most of the cars themselves are manufactured in China.
San Diego's EV "End Game" Includes 70 Cars and Clean Energy
San Diego is embracing EVs like no other city, even in electrified California. Some 10 percent of the Nissan LEAF reservations are in San Diego, and the university is leading the charge with a rollout of as many as 70 campus-based EVs (some sourced from GE’s big buy of 25,000 cars), plus renewably sourced electricity to charge them at ECOtality Blink and GE WattStations.
Ethanol, electric power behind winners of DOE EcoCAR challenge
The winners of the recently completed three-year EcoCAR challenge used a combination of extended-range electric power and E85 to grab top honors. Taking first place was Virginia Tech University, followed by Ohio State University in the No. 2 spot.
MMC selects Toshiba's SCiB battery to power two new EVs
Mitsubishi Motors (MMC) has selected Toshiba's SCiB battery to power two new models of electric vehicles (EV), the i-MiEV and MINICAB-MiEV.
Europe to debut its 1st e-car battery switch station
Europe’s first commercial battery switch station is set to debut in Denmark later this month. The technology, the brainchild of the electric-car business Better Place, enables drivers of plug-in vehicles to quickly exchanges depleted batteries for fresh ones rather than having to wait for a battery to recharge
Toshiba's SCiB rechargeable battery selected for new electric vehicles
Toshiba Corporation today announced that its SCiB battery has been selected by Mitsubishi Motors Corporation to power two new models of electric vehicles (EV), the i-MiEV and MINICAB-MiEV. The SCiB is Toshiba's breakthrough rechargeable lithium-ion battery that combines high levels of safety with a long life, rapid charging and excellent charging and output at very low temperatures, characteristics that make it highly suited to application in EV.
DOE Announces Over $30 Million to Help Universities Train the Next Generation of Industrial Energy Efficiency Experts
Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced the availability of more than $30 million to train undergraduate- and graduate-level engineering students in manufacturing efficiency to help them become the nation's next generation of industrial energy efficiency experts.
Water or Rocks: What’s the Secret Ingredient for Energy Storage?
A modern duel over energy storage involving all four—earth, fire, water, air—of the original elements. SustainX, a well-funded spin-out from Dartmouth College, has come up with a modular energy storage system that relies on water to prepare a mass of compressed air that can later be delivered to a turbine. A 40-kilowatt prototype exists, and in 2012, a 1-megawatt system for AES should be ready.
Infocast's Storage Week 2011: The Gateway to Energy Storage
Infocast brings its highly acclaimed Fourth Storage Week 2011 conference from July 11-14, 2011 to the Rancho Bernardo Inn in beautiful San Diego, CA. This game-changing summit will cover the complete range of storage policies, markets, projects, applications, business models and technology platforms.
Big batteries to ensure power during 2014 Olympics
With the Winter Olympic Games coming to the city of Sochi in 2014 and a $15 billion nationwide push to upgrade its energy grid, Russia is also looking at distributed energy storage to ensure secure power supplies.
Advanced Batteries for Portable Power Applications
The number of electronics applications that have become portable in the last 20 years has risen dramatically with the evolution of battery technologies.
Auto execs stay positive about electrics
Auto executives maintained their optimism about taking electric vehicles to the mass market after two studies cast doubt on Americans' willingness to pay for the technology.
Electric vehicle batteries as energy storage devices
Smart Grids, renewable energy, electric vehicles: these technologies are part of the energy mix of a clean energy society. Deploying renewable energy solutions implies dealing with power shortage during off-peak production periods. Electric vehicles can contribute to stabilising energy supply to households and reduce costs of ownership.
Mini E study reveals second car key to avoiding range anxiety
BMW and the University of California, Davis, released a study of 120 families who leased the Mini E in California, New York, and New Jersey from June 2009 to June 2010. A majority of drivers reported that the Mini E met their daily driving needs, but they also said a second gas-powered car was key to avoiding the EV's shortcomings.
Proterra Paves Way for Growth With $30M Investment From Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, GM Ventures, Mitsui & Co., Ltd., Vision Ridge Partners and 88 Green Ventures
Proterra Inc (www.proterra.com), a leading maker of zero-emission commercial transit solutions, today announced an investment of $30 million to accelerate the commercialization of its world-leading, fast-charge battery electric transit buses and automated bus charging system.
Ford Focus Electric to Use Liquid Battery Cooling
The latest example of such a development comes from Ford, which has developed a special liquid-cooling system for the lithium-ion battery in the new Focus Electric.
Saving Electricity on a Philadelphia Subway Line
Subway trains need a lot of electricity to get going, turning electricity into kinetic energy, the energy of movement. When they pull into a station, many of them can do the opposite: generate electricity from their momentum. They turn their motors into generators to slow the train, producing current.
PNNL confab targets advanced batteries
The 250 people attending the Fourth Symposium on Energy Storage Tuesday-Thursday at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory include representatives from global industries, academic institutions, federally funded energy laboratories and investors.
Infiniti hybrid system is simple, clever – and fast
The 2012 Infiniti M Hybrid – the M 35h at $67,300 – is important for parent Nissan for a long list of reason, not least of which is this: here we have Nissan’s first in-house hybrid.
MIT researchers create 'refillable' electric vehicle batteries
A new battery design which could make it possible to refuel electric vehicles in the same way as traditional cars has been unveiled by academics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, US.
'Regen' braking stirs interest in hybrid cars
What if the gasoline engine in your car could create some of its own gasoline and put it back into the fuel tank while coasting downhill or stopping at an intersection? And what if this process of creating gasoline also helped slow the car's wheels before coming to a stop?
What you need to know about flow batteries
Flow batteries — big tanks of liquids that can store energy — were invented in the 19th century and investigated closely by NASA in the 1970s.
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