Many new microgrid projects are still under the radar and many local projects originate organically without official designations or titles, making them very hard to track, according to a new report from Navigant Research. As a sector,…
Toronto-based Northland Power plans to construct a USD$700m pumped hydroelectric project using the enormous hole and mountain of tailings left by an abandoned open-pit iron ore mine. Water would be pumped up from the old…
Samsung and Xtreme Power have been chosen by the US Department of Energy-backed Center for the Commercialization of Electric Technologies to install a 1MW/1MWh lithium ion-based battery energy storage system at the Reese Technology Center…
It’s been designed to make the smart grid smarter, say its backers. Scheduled to launch on June 30, 2013, the Southern California Edison (SCE) project will include electric-distribution infrastructure, substations, residential homes, cyber-security networks, battery…
Hawaii is not the only sea-bound community to increasingly use energy storage. Half a world away and many degrees cooler, the Isle of Eigg and the Isle of Rum, small islands with fewer than 100…
There has been plenty to cheer about in Germany, green energy-wise. In addition to a the recent formation of a national energy storage body, there was this week’s reminder from a Washington Post blog that…
We’ve already heard of electric vehicle manufacturers suggesting the use of their old batteries in domestic and other immovable energy storage solutions. It has been mooted as a way of keeping down the (rather large)…
We’ve heard a lot about German renewables and energy storage recently, and it appears that all this feverish activity is generating (sorry!) some international orders. One of these is the shipment of energy storage inverters…