The VRB (Vanadium Redox Battery) Energy Storage System was developed by Prudent Energy and is capable of storing and delivering 600 kW for up to six hours, says the company. The battery will be used by…
The Auwahi Wind farm will use Siemens wind turbines to generate enough renewable energy for approximately 10,000 average homes in Maui, say the participants. In addition, says North American Wind Power (NAWP) the wind farm…
Representatives of the US ESA converged on Capital Hill on Thursday 17th May to meet with members of Congress and the House of representatives. After a year of what it describes as “public advocacy”, ESA…
Located in the southern part of Albuquerque, Mesa del Sol has been planned as a “visionary” community, and now has its own Smart Grid. The newly installed microgrid uses on-site solar, fuel cell, natural gas…
According to the press release, Hydrogenics Corporation of Canada of has entered into an agreement with Enbridge Inc. to jointly develop utility scale energy storage in North America. The non-renewable energy giant has also made…
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…
It has been widely reported that things at Electric Car Battery Company A123 Systems are not looking good. Thanks to a recall of faulty Lithium-ion batteries, the Massachusetts-based company posted losses of $125 million, up…
Market research company Zpryme says that the U.S. market for smart grid network management systems will grow from $225 million in 2012 to $1.05 billion in 2020. This translates to an impressive annual growth of…