How storage helps turn gold mines green
BY RICHARD HEAP: This week, BayWa and Suntrace fired up a 30MW solar plant with a 15.4MWh battery storage system at the Fekola gold mine in Mali in west Africa. The project is set to…
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Can we use old coal mines for energy storage?
BY RICHARD HEAP: Renewable energy is doing its best to put coal mines out of action. But the need for energy storage could give these shafts a new lease of lease of life. That’s the…
California storage reaches its JFK moment
BY RICHARD HEAP: It’s 59 years since President John F. Kennedy claimed that the US would land a man on the moon before the end of the 1960s. In 1969, it achieved this goal….
We talk to Ben Guest from energy storage investor Gresham House
BY RICHARD HEAP: I know from my work with A Word About Wind that there are areas where wind and solar can work well with storage. But that doesn’t mean the future of storage is…
Co-location could make wind-plus-storage projects work
BY ILARIA VALTIMORA: Questions about wind-and-storage projects have come up at pretty much every event held by ESR sister title A Word About Wind in the last two years. However, while we can all agree that the…
Wake up, SMEs! Energy storage is an income stream
BY RICHARD HEAP: Two-thirds of energy managers at small- and medium-sized businesses in the UK expect energy costs to rise in the next decade. That is according to a survey of 250 people from YouGov last month….
Why using carbon fibre for energy storage can help an EV revolution
BY RICHARD HEAP: For those of us in the UK, winter is almost upon us. And, if your car is anything like mine, the combination of dark evenings and plummeting temperatures would leave you playing…