US energy storage market set to almost double this year
The solar-plus-storage combination is super-charging the deployment of batteries across the country and IHS Markit says the U.S. will become…
Renewable energy: Australia bets on a ‘water battery’ – pump hydro plant
It took 100,000 construction workers a quarter of a century to bore through the Snowy Mountains to build Australia’s largest…
Timisoara: Electroputere VFU Pascani, Turkish firm Bozankaya and Polish Pesa filed offers for trams with batteries
Timisoara City Hall received three offers at the auction for the purchase of 40 autonomous trams. These come from Electroputere…
Secoşan, Siemens: We want to increase awareness on power storage
In Romania there is only one MW of storage installed, at a wind power plant in Cobadin, says Cristian Secoșan,…
E-acumulatori.ro solutions to prevent power outages
E-acumulators.ro is the oldest online shop of electrical products on the Romanian market. Concerned about the new smart home concept…
US: Energy storage has a breakout year
2018 may have been the year of residential energy storage, according to a leading analyst, but grid storage was no slouch.…
Electric mobility among the top 10 priorities in EU, besides AI and digital transformation
In an analysis published by the European Parliamentary Research Service, Étienne Bassot sets out the top 10 issues likely to…
Multiple technologies are vying to house temporary surpluses of solar and wind power
A mind-boggling array of energy storage technologies—including batteries the size of an Ikea furniture store and tanks of salt hydrates…
EDP Renewables has launched in Constanta the first energy storage station in Romania
The first energy storage facility in Romania was inaugurated in Constanta on Thursday, September 27, by EDP Renewables. The storage…
Bloom Energy marks success after $270 mln. IPO
Bloom Energy, the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers-backed maker of fuel-cell power systems, climbed on its first day of trading…
World Bank, AIIB allocate $1.2b loan to Turkey for natural gas storage facility
urkey’s ever-growing energy industry continues to draw investments from international institutions. The World Bank and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)…
Bill Gates and his billionaire friends are betting on energy storage
The world needs radical new energy technologies to fight climate change. In 2016, Quartz reported that a group of billionaires—including…
Siemens-Gamesa turns attention to energy storage
The head of Siemens-Gamesa, Marcus Tacke says the company is to put more emphasis on developing battery storage technology, in…
Hajdinjak, E.ON: Romania is inadequately prepared for blockchain or intelligent storage, the network should be a priority
If we offer marks on a scale of 1 to 10, on how ready is Romania for technologies such as…
New water-based battery stores green energy
A new water-based battery could provide a cheap way to store wind or solar energy for later, researchers say. The…
Britain’s Ovo introduces smart home batteries that buy cheap energy
Stephen Fitzpatrick—the founder and CEO of British energy upstart Ovo Energy—has an elegant vision for the future of energy. One…
A New Way to Find Better Battery Materials
A new approach to analyzing and designing new ion conductors — a key component of rechargeable batteries — could accelerate…
Google’s next clean energy investment may be a bet on batteries
Google, already the world’s biggest corporate buyer of wind and solar power, may soon be making another clean energy bet…
Transelectrica: 100MW storage is needed for each additional 300MW installed in WPP
Romania is almost reaching its target for the share of renewable energy in total national energy consumption for 2020 –…
Vestas taps car battery know-how for wind power storage
The world’s largest wind turbine maker Vestas is tapping into experience from the car battery industry to try to address…
EDF to invest about 10 bln. USD in storage
Electricite de France said that it plans to invest a whopping $9.93 billion in electricity storage by 2035. “Electricity-storage technologies have…
US energy storage market has a new milestone: 1080 MWh in 2017
The U.S. energy storage market is no longer in its infancy. According to GTM Research and the Energy Storage Association’s…