Plant power to store energy?

Premier Global Holdings Corporation holds the rights to a pending patent for a combined solar power generation and storage unit based on photosynthesis, the process plants use to convert the sun’s rays into chemical energy. Now DayStar Technologies, a developer of thin film … Continue reading →

Ingeteam targets energy storage with new inverter

Spanish electrical manufacturer Ingeteam this month launched a new product called Ingecon EMS Plants, an inverter for 500kW to 1,000kW solar plants that features a battery bank management system. The product should help to stabilise grids by charging or discharging storage … Continue reading →

Device battery market to hit US$86bn by 2023

By 2023 the smart and portable electronic device batteries sector will be worth $86bn, super-capacitors will top $4.5bn and secondary lithium batteries will likely have lost some of their current 57 per cent market share to new technologies. This is the outlook according to a … Continue reading →

Liquid air to give UK advantage in Energy Storage sector?

27 September 2012 It’s early days yet, but Dr Tim Fox of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers thinks that liquid air and liquid nitrogen energy storage solutions are areas where the UK could steal a march over international rivals in the ES area.Speaking to Plant Engineer, he … Continue reading →