What’s the best place to store electricity? Many solutions are being suggested, from household fuel cell energy storage units to your electric vehicle’s lithium-ion battery. But a fascinating article in Nanowerk explores the idea that we’ll one…
Monash University researchers have brought next generation energy storage closer with an engineering first: a graphene-based device that is compact yet lasts as long as a conventional battery.
A criticism often leveled at the energy storage sector is that its solutions aren’t modular, aren’t scalable and are not vertically integrated with the rest of the value chain. Our industry is not deaf to…
Maxwell Technologies has joined up with Soitec for a project to demonstrate the benefits of combining the former’s ultracapacitor energy storage with the latter’s concentrated solar technology, reports NewNet. The project, which has already started, is being…
Siemens is currently installing its first Sitras Energy Storage (SES) unit with supercapacitor technology in the US, on the TriMet Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Transit Line. The southeast Portland Tacoma substation location will house the first…
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 new process for growing forests of manganese dioxide nano-rods may lead to the next generation of high-performance capacitors, according to researchers at Michigan Technological University. Dennis Desheng Meng’s research group has developed a technique…
Supercapacitors (or if that’s not hyperbolic enough for you, ultracapacitors) have found a niche providing a lot of power for very short periods of time. They can be used to smooth over voltage dips and…