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Tesla Builds the Largest Grid Storage In Only 3 Months

Ece Polat — Sat, 04 Feb 2017 11:17:38 +0000

Tesla just finished building the largest grid storage facility, and it took only three months. This battery grid storage facility has 16,000 lithium ion cells and a capacity of 210 kilowatt-hours within each ‘Powerpack’. This means that the facility’s installed grid storage is 15% of the whole world’s. What was the reason behind this facility? […]

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CODA is Back, This Time as a Grid Storage Company

Benji Jerew — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 14:15:21 +0000

There’s still some life left to CODA Holdings, and now that the dead Automotive arm has amputated [read: bankruptcy], CODA Energy can focus on something else, grid storage technology. CODA Automotive’s bankruptcy came as no surprise after failing to sell enough of its electric sedan to make a profit. Now that all the legal stuff […]

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Liquified Air Could Be Cheaper Energy Storage Than Batteries

Benji Jerew — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:36:00 +0000

The idea is a couple of hundred years old, but liquified air technology was just too inefficient to store energy. Of course, just like batteries of the 1880’s couldn’t hold a candle to today’s batteries, the technology needed to liquify air today is much more efficient. By compressing and cooling a gas, it can be […]

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New Simpler Flow Battery for Grid Storage Developed at Stanford University

Benji Jerew — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:45:45 +0000

The development of grid storage solutions is critical if the power grid is to switch to entirely renewable energy sources. The problem is that renewable energy is largely weather-dependent, so we need backup power sources to take up the slack when demand outstrips the supply of renewable energy. This often means that conventional fossil fuel […]

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Zinc-Iron Redox Flow Battery for Grid Energy Storage Almost Ready for Market

Benji Jerew — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:22:56 +0000

Working under the radar for years, Zinc-Air Inc. is probably a battery company that you’ve never heard of, but now that they’re maybe six months away from marketing a new grid energy storage battery, they’re coming out of hiding. Who can blame them? Startup battery companies have often overhyped, not only their technology, but also […]

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New Jersey Expanding Renewable Energy and Grid Storage

Benji Jerew — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 22:50:05 +0000

By 2020, New Jersey has a goal of having 22.5% of renewable energy generation and could be funding storage solutions in the near future. Big goals are fine, and New Jersey is actually just 3rd in the nation, behind California and Arizona, in the number of solar installations. It may seem counterintuitive to cut funding […]

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Sun Catalytix’s Grid-Connected Flow Batteries Promise Cheap Energy Storage

Mila Luleva — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:07:32 +0000

Sun Catalytix, a company which spun out of MIT in 2009 to bring a low-cost catalyst to the market, has changed its main goal from enabling the hydrogen economy to designing a flow battery for grid storage. The first prototype is expected later this year. The new flow battery will be made of two custom-designed […]

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Molten Salt Battery Company Changes Name to Ambri, Seeks to Revolutionize Grid Storage

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 18:50:33 +0000

If you remember, there was a certain company founded by a certain Professor Don Sadoway, who invented a molten salt battery designed specifically for the power grid. The battery had two liquid metal electrodes with molten salt as the electrolyte. Well, now the company renamed itself to Ambri, and is being backed up by Bill […]

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General Electric Develops New Long Lasting Battery

Maria Reyes — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:15:35 +0000

GE is now developing a more durable and long lasting battery that charges more quickly. It will make off-grid power generation more efficient and help utilities incorporate power from a wide range of sources including solar and wind power. A $100 million battery factory was recently opened by GE to make this new kind of […]

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