The South Australian firm ZEN claims that its active balancing battery management system halves the expense of storing electricity, compared to other lithium-ion units, reports the Brisbane Times. ZEN is primarily a software company, rather than…
Last week nine European micro fuel cell Combined Heat and Power (micro FC-CHP) manufacturers got together to put their solutions to the test in around 1,000 homes across 12 European Union (EU) states. A total…
The planet’s first tower to use battery-based, intelligent energy storage is located at 10 Barclay Street in Manhattan, New York City, reports PR Newswire. The Joule.System, designed by Demand Energy Networks, Inc., provides the 58-storey luxury apartment block with…
A new boost for the much-discussed domestic storage sector has been announced by The University of Kansas. Its researcher, Trung Van Nguyen, is partnering with researchers from Vanderbilt University and fuel cell research and development…
We’re all familiar with the idea of utilities storing cheaply-produced, surplus electricity until market demand peaks to maximise profits, but now two engineers from Virginia Tech, USA, have proposed turning the concept on its head….
The 1.1-megawatt hour bank of rare earth lithium-ion batteries that recently went online at University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering is one of the largest of its kind at a university, anywhere in…