Billionaires’ fund backs Malta molten moonshot
BY RICHARD HEAP: I love the week before Christmas. Yes, it’s almost mid-January, so no doubt some of you are furiously grinding your teeth at any mention of ‘the C word’. All I can say…
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We speak to Highview Power’s CEO Javier Cavada
BY RICHARD HEAP: Javier Cavada joined Highview Power in September as CEO and president. Previously he spent 17 years in leadership positions at Wartsila Corporation, which has over 67GW installed power capacity globally, including as president…
When will the storage revolution reach your kitchen?
BY RICHARD HEAP: Individual consumers could play a key role in the looming storage revolution. We’ve heard plenty about how a growing number of electric vehicles linked to the grid can help operators to better…
Co-location could make wind-plus-storage projects work
BY ILARIA VALTIMORA: Questions about wind-and-storage projects have come up at pretty much every event held by ESR sister title A Word About Wind in the last two years. However, while we can all agree that the…
Is zinc the missing link for energy storage?
BY RICHARD HEAP: When I started writing for ESR in September, I didn’t realise how vital the periodic table would be in my life. But I’ve done lithium, I’ve done vanadium, and now it’s the…
Key ECJ ruling should improve prospects for storage in Europe
BY RICHARD HEAP: My beloved UK spent the second half of last week convulsed in political drama after the publication of Prime Minister Theresa May’s draft Brexit deal with the European Union. Resignations, howls of…
C&D Technologies forms global storage player with Trojan takeover
BY RICHARD HEAP: Beware of Greeks bearing gifts! In Virgil’s Aeneid, the Greeks famously ended a ten-year war with the Trojans by gifting their foes a huge wooden horse that was stuffed with elite soldiers….
Summit shows Asia’s politicians are switching on to storage
BY RICHARD HEAP: Last week, Singapore played host to the Asia Clean Energy Summit, which included the first Annual Asia Energy Storage Conference on Thursday. The events were part of the Singapore International Energy Week, and so we…