Posts Tagged energy storage

GELI to Unveil Operating System That Will Manage Future Smart Grids

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy Storage on May 7, 2012

In the years to come, the electric grid is to change radically. What is now produced by coal-fired plants and consumed instantly, will then be produced by wind turbines and solar panels, and stored inside batteries or other forms of energy storage. The worldwide network of energy grids will be interconnected and will need software [...]

Startup Company to Produce Liquid Metal Batteries for Grid Energy Storage

Posted by Boniface Ndirangu in Energy Storage on April 24, 2012

Cheap batteries that can store power from renewable energy sources like wind and solar are being developed by a startup company. Liquid Metal Battery’s ambition as a company is to bring this rechargeable battery at a very affordable price to the market. Even though their workspace is a small basement headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the [...]

Battery-Like Bacterial Enzyme Stores Energy Biologically

Posted by Boniface Ndirangu in Energy Storage on April 19, 2012

Clean energy is now an almost achieved dream, especially with the newly reported Concordia University (Canada) physicists’ research findings. The researchers led by Associate Professor László Kálmán have been able to modify a battery-like enzyme so as to yield carbon-neutral energy. The study showed that there is possibility of extending the length of time the bacterial enzyme can store [...]

Forget Pumped Hydro! Gravel-Carrying Energy Storage System Funded by Bill Gates Will Probably Change Things. Heavily

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy Storage on March 27, 2012

With the ascent of renewable energy sources, electric cars and a generally higher energy demand from consumers, energy utilities are now facing a crisis and at the same time a need to find solutions for temporarily storing the output of intermittent power sources, such as wind and solar. Batteries are a no-brainer solution, but they’re [...]

New Grid-Ready Aqueous Lithium Ion Battery to Be Developed in German University

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy Storage on February 28, 2012

Although they’re being touted as the perfect energy storage medium for electric cars, lithium ion batteries, in the form they exist today, are not as good for grid energy storage applications. Dr. Fabio La Mantia from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum – Germany is going to develop an aqueous lithium ion battery adapted perfectly for the electrical grid. [...]

New Lithium Ion Battery Embedded in Cotton Fabric Could Save Lives

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy Storage on February 6, 2012

Flexible batteries could be the future devices that power our gadgets, emit distress signals in the case of an emergency or even resuscitate a dying patient. Woven into fabrics, they can reach extreme applications, but also have to withstand extreme conditions like washing and ironing. A team at the Polytechnic School of Montreal in Canada led [...]

Chinese Automaker BYD Unveils World's Largest Battery for Renewable Energy Storage

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy Storage on January 9, 2012

BYD is already being known as China’s main producer of electric cars. They also produce their own ferrous batteries for the cars, which they now use to store wind and solar power in what represents the world’s largest renewable energy storage based on batteries. Having the size of a football field, the huge battery bank [...]

Russia Builds Liotech, World's Largest Lithium Ion Battery Factory

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy Storage on December 21, 2011

Some say the Chinese have the brightest minds in the world, an impressively high level of technological achievements (even though some are done by copying others), and that Russian things are ultimately the ones built to last. What could be better for the EV industry than the world’s largest lithium ion battery factory built in [...]

Germany Could Store Renewable Energy in Ex-Nazi Labor Camps from Harz Mountains

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy Storage on November 22, 2011

Germany has set itself on a one-way road towards adopting clean, renewable energy, even if that means giving up what is today its most prolific resource: nuclear power. However, Germany has lots of other options, so many that they’ll need extra storage for the energy that can be produced using offshore wind turbines or solar [...]

World's Lightest Material is a Metal, Could Be Used for Making Better Batteries

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy Storage, New Inventions on November 18, 2011

A newly invented material could revolutionize many industries at once. Discovered by a collaborating team from three U.S. universities, the metal is the lightest material ever discovered – so light it can actually sit on a dandelion. The new material’s density is 0.9 milligrams/cubic centimeter, and Styrofoam, one of the lightest so far, is 100 [...]

Newly Invented Energy-Storing Organic Membrane Better and Cheaper Than Batteries and Capacitors

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy Storage on October 27, 2011

An organic membrane may be the world’s next best battery and may revolutionize energy storage as we know it – it can bear far more energy than capacitors can, and can charge quicker than ever. Not to mention that it’s also dead-cheap. The energy-storing membrane has been invented by a team from the NUS Nanoscience [...]

SustainX Makes Compressed Air Energy Storage Cheaper and More Efficient

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy Storage on October 20, 2011

A roadblock that’s standing in the way of alternative energy is energy storage. People have been traditionally using batteries and flywheels for that purpose, but their uses are limited and the energy they can provide (at least in the battery’s case) costs pretty much. SustainX, a company specialized in compressed air energy storage (CAES), has [...]

MIT Researchers Increase Ultracapacitor Performance by 45 Percent

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy Storage, Uncategorized on October 13, 2011

Yi Cui and Zhenan Bao from the University of Stanford have developed an electrode manufacturing technique that could improve the capacity of ultra-capacitors by 20 to 45 percent and make them compete with much more expensive batteries currently used in electric cars. The two researchers and the team they led used managanese oxide electrodes (MnO), [...]

Iron "Veins" Inside Magnesium Could Make the Perfect Solution for Hydrogen Storage

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy Storage, Hydrogen Power on August 31, 2011

A principle that mother nature uses since millions of years ago may just be the solution to an efficient hydrogen storage material, as hydrogen is the ultimate energy carrier, because burning it emits nothing but water. So far, the few hydrogen-powered cars that are not even on the market yet, but merely as leased test [...]

New York's Flywheel Grid Regulation System Goes Online July 12

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy Storage on June 13, 2011

New York’s 20-megawatt flywheel energy storage system is about to go online later this month, to provide extra bursts of electricity for stabilizing the grid. Beacon Power, the project contractor, says it built the world’s largest energy storage in Stephentown, N.Y.. They’ll even host a ceremony at the official launch date, July 12.

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