Interview: Tekna CEO Luc Dionne’s $1bn battery plan
BY BEN COOK: How can more energy storage capacity be connected to national power grids? Tekna Plasma Systems CEO Luc Dionne has a plan…
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Will Europe overtake US in ‘gigafactory’ race?
BY RICHARD HEAP: US billionaire Elon Musk knows how to make money – and words too. Don’t believe me? Musk coined the term ‘Gigafactory’ in late 2013 for a huge Tesla battery factory in Nevada….
Lithium-ion’s end of life is not the dead end you think
BY JASON DEIGN: The fate of used lithium-ion batteries, seen as a weak point for the industry, is not as gloomy as many think, a report has revealed.
Why the energy storage industry needs to get over ‘lithium-ion for everything’
By Craig E. Evans, President and CEO, ESS Inc Energy storage had a big year in 2017. We saw it being proposed to power a city the size of Berlin and we saw it being…
What a fading ViZn means for other firms hoping to take on the lithium-ion market
By Jason Deign Analysts have rushed to highlight the challenges facing non-lithium-ion battery makers after news emerged last week that ViZn Energy was shutting up shop.
Alta stalks a secret $6bn market
CORRECTION: This story previously stated Alta had achieved a system cost of $300 per kilowatt-hour, “the lowest” on the market. This has since been corrected to $350. By Jason Deign Alta Motors, which has been…
New research confirms what we knew
By Jason Deign A new study has strengthened previous evidence that electrical energy storage is getting more distributed, more tied to solar, more long-term and more based on lithium-ion.
Markets muted on Fluence launch
By Jason Deign Early trading suggests markets have taken in their stride the news that Siemens and AES are joining forces to take over the energy storage market.