Shanghai ISSON Power Quality has installed 126 125V Heavy Transportation Modules from Maxwell Technologies at the Yangshan Deep-Water Port, the developer and manufacturer of ultracapacitor-based energy storage products said this week. The modules are used in a power system that operates … Continue reading
A Portland, US, light rail system is to implement a braking-energy recuperation system using ultracapacitors produced by Maxwell Technologies and a USD$4.2 million grant from the US Department of Transportation’s Transit Investment for Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction (TIGGER) programme. … Continue reading
By Jason Deign Claims that energy storage is likely to evolve in the same way as solar might not be as accurate as previously thought, current trends reveal. In particular, the move towards technology consolidation apparent in the photovoltaic (PV) … Continue reading
The ultracapacitor company Ioxus last week reinforced its automotive sector focus by naming ex-General Motors (GM) executive Don Runkle the chairman of the board. Runkle’s experience includes having been GM’s top engineering executive as vice president of the company’s North … Continue reading
One of the most intriguing energy storage stories of last week was news of a solid-state supercapacitor so tough it could potentially be built into laptop casings, electric vehicle panels and even walls to become the basis of a structural energy … Continue reading
The main energy storage news stories from our Twitter feed this week. LightSail, the compressed air energy storage company funded by Khosla and Bill Gates, has made about 15% of its staff redundant. Tesla is opening a second production plant in California, coinciding with … Continue reading