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…
Days after SustainX’s announcement of a new compressed air energy storage (CAES) project comes the news that another site is being considered for a more conventional form of the technology. A layer of porous rock…
Enough Northwest US wind energy to power about 85,000 homes each month could be stored in porous rocks deep underground for later use, according to a new study. Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National…
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), a US government facility, claims to have developed new batteries that have significantly enhanced storage compared with that of conventional vanadium redox units. In addition to boosting energy density, the new…