News & Articles on Commercial and Residential Energy Storage

NREL’s Microgrid Mission

May 30, 2014 by Leon Walker

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo., is using its newest building – the Energy Systems Integration Facility – to test the latest microgrid concepts. NREL is using the ESIF for work on devices that can intelligently manage energy from batteries, electric cars, wind, solar, and biofuels as it aims to move ... Read more »

Flow Battery Gets Connected to California Grid

May 27, 2014 by Linda Hardesty

EnerVault’s grid-scale, iron-chromium redox flow battery has been activated in Turlock, Calif. Interconnected to the distribution grid, EnerVault Turlock is co-located with a dual-axis tracking solar photovoltaic system in an almond orchard in California’s Central Valley. EnerVault designed and manufactured the long-duration, grid-scale energy storage system in Silicon Valley with ... Read more »

ABB Microgrid Supplies Power for Shipping Crane

May 22, 2014 by Linda Hardesty

ABB won an order to deliver two PowerStore microgrid units to Kodiak Electric Association (KEA), a rural electric cooperative that generates and distributes electrical power using hydro, wind, battery energy storage, and diesel generation sets to produce power for the Kodiak Island in Alaska. The ABB PowerStore units will provide ... Read more »

Caltech Announces 2014 Resonate Awards Winners

May 20, 2014 by Leon Walker

Caltech’s Resnick Sustainability Institute has announced the winners of the 2014 Resonate Awards, which aim to promote innovative solutions to some of the hardest problems in alternative energy. The work being recognized is in several key areas, including: development of safe and cost effective energy storage; the most sophisticated mathematics for ... Read more »

Energy Storage Firm Gets $20M Venture Debt Loan

May 14, 2014 by Linda Hardesty

Trinity Capital Investment and CapX Partners closed a $20 million venture debt loan to meet the existing and future debt financing needs of Aquion Energy, an early stage energy storage company with a proprietary battery technology. In January 2014, Aquion closed a $55 million Series D round of equity funding ... Read more »

Ryden Dual Carbon Battery Released

May 14, 2014 by William Opalka

A new battery offers energy density comparable to a lithium ion battery, but over a much longer functional lifetime with improved safety and cradle-to-cradle sustainability, its manufacturer claims. Power Japan Plus launched the technology, the Ryden dual carbon battery, which uses a unique chemistry with both the anode and the ... Read more »

Tesla Eyes Home Energy Storage

May 9, 2014 by William Opalka

Tesla Motors’ designs on the energy storage market go well beyond its famous electric cars and reach well into the home. It plans to build a lithium-ion battery factory and may enter the energy storage market, CEO Elon Musk said during a discussion of its first-quarter earnings, according to Forbes. ... Read more »

Implementing Smart Solutions for Electric Vehicle Scale-up and Integration

May 8, 2014 by Jennifer Hermes

Moving towards Smart urban solutions Big data, “smart,” and the Internet of Things (IoT) are in the limelight of public perception. They hold a promise that through connecting everything with everyone and the application of intelligent response management, significant strides can be made towards sustainability. At the urban level, typical ... Read more »

University of Wisconsin Tests Battery Technologies

May 6, 2014 by Linda Hardesty

Johnson Controls donated a suite of battery test equipment available to faculty, students, and other researchers at the new laboratory at the Wisconsin Energy Institute on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The donation includes state-of-the-art battery testing technology, which will allow students, faculty and engineers to study and optimize energy ... Read more »

Hawaiian Electric Seeks Energy Storage Support

May 5, 2014 by Linda Hardesty

To meet its goal of adding more renewable generation to the Oahu grid, Hawaiian Electric is seeking proposals for one or more large-scale energy storage systems able to store 60 to 200 megawatts for up to 30 minutes. With the continuing dramatic growth on Oahu of utility-scale wind and solar ... Read more »

Novel Vanadium Electrolyte Storage Technology Explored

May 2, 2014 by William Opalka

Remote cell towers must rely on inconsistent and expensive supplies of fuel oil to run generators. And the heat makes reliance on batteries a challenge. Now, according to a report in Forbes, the harsh conditions are acting as a test bed for a new technology. Imergy, with its vanadium electrolyte storage ... Read more »

Tax Credits for Energy Storage Would Forward Renewable Energy Tech

April 29, 2014 by Jennifer Hermes

Last month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) delivered their latest report on the state of our global climate. The report warned that we are already seeing melting glaciers, rising tides, and dying coral reefs, and that the worst is yet to come. But under the doom and gloom ... Read more »

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