A selection of energy storage news from our Twitter feed over the last week. Energy storage in Texas is seeing an increase in investment, with the utility Oncor spending USD$500,000 on a lithium-ion battery storage project. The California…
The demise of ClearEdge Power last month raises questions over the future of a technology that has many followers yet steadfastly refuses to take off. Fuel cells, the product commercialised by ClearEdge, have a history dating back…
The main energy storage news from our Twitter feed this week. Hydrostor and the University of Windsor are building the world’s first grid-connected offshore and underwater energy storage system near Toronto, Canada. MIT researchers are pioneering azobenzene-on-carbon nanotube photoswitches…
A Bolivian smelter is the unlikely setting for a technology experiment that could upset hydrogen’s incipient lead as an alternative energy storage and fuel source. Last September the smelter, run by the Royal Silver Company,…
The important energy storage news from our Twitter feed this week. EnStorage Israel and Princeton Power Systems have been awarded a USD$950,000 grant from the BIRD Foundation. The grant will be used to commercialise an energy storage…
The energy storage news from our Twitter feed this week. A Tesla Motors Model X prototype has been photographed in California. The fully electric vehicle is a cross between a sports utility vehicle and a minivan. EnerVault…
Areva is poised to announce its first major energy storage deal in Germany, according to Rémi Coulon, chief commercial officer at the company’s Renewables division. “We are about to announce our first client in Germany after…
A hidden challenge for renewable energy, in terms of carbon reductions at least, is making sure your cure is not more damaging than your disease. Many types of renewable power plants, for example, contain large…