The lithium-ion (Li-ion) energy storage systems will be used to mitigate power fluctuations inherent with solar-generated electricity. Saft, the world’s leading designer and manufacturer of advanced technology batteries for industry, has received its third contract from a major California utility. Since the first utility-scale storage system was commissioned at the end of 2012, Saft received … Continue reading Saft to Deliver Third Li-ion Energy Storage System for California Utility
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Worldwide Capacity of Next-Generation Advanced Batteries Is Expected to Increase Nearly 1,000-Fold by 2023
A recent report from Navigant Research analyzes the global market for next-generation advanced batteries, with a focus on the current leading battery chemistry, lithium ion, and the energy storage device types that might eventually replace it. While lithium ion (Li-ion) batteries offer many advantages over traditional battery technologies, research and development of new battery chemistries … Continue reading Worldwide Capacity of Next-Generation Advanced Batteries Is Expected to Increase Nearly 1,000-Fold by 2023
Continue readingSaft to Supply Li-ion Battery Energy Storage System for Kauai Island
Saft, the world’s leading designer and manufacturer of advanced technology batteries for industry, has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract by Kauai Island Utility Co-operative (KIUC) to provide a Li-ion Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) consisting of 8 Intensium Max 20 M containers to stabilize the Kauai island electrical grid. Saft’s BESS will be deployed … Continue reading Saft to Supply Li-ion Battery Energy Storage System for Kauai Island
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The future of batteries
Everywhere you look, you see lithium-ion batteries. They’re in your laptop, your cell phone, your power tools, maybe even your car. Lithium-ion battery research accounts for about 95% of all battery research and development, which has resulted in countless improvements to the technology. But lithium-ion batteries can only go so far. The Joint Center for … Continue reading The future of batteries
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Lithium-ion batteries successfully pass ageing test
The BPT-S 5 Hybrid from Bosch uses lithium-ion batteries, which continue after years of intensive use to reliably provide households with electricity from its own PV system without the need for maintenance. This has now been proven through ageing tests, which have been carried out by the independent Institute for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives … Continue reading Lithium-ion batteries successfully pass ageing test
Continue readingWind energy Vestas produces wind turbine blades in Tianjin
Vestas, a world leader in wind power technology, installed the country’s first wind turbines in east China’s Shandong Province in 1986.
Continue readingEnergy Storage at Texas Wind Energy Plant
It will be the world’s largest power storage system for a wind farm. This system will store excess wind power and discharge it whenever demand for electricity is highest.
Continue readingInterest in wind power picks up in New Mexico
Terra-Gen Power revealed plans early this month for a 150-megawatt wind farm. Lee Tillman says wind energy has a good future in eastern New Mexico for both small and large wind turbines.
Continue readingSmall-hydro in the Balkans (Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia)
Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia will also use small-hydro to meet their growing electricity needs and rebalance their energy systems that suffer from decades of political unrest.
Continue readingEtrion Releases 2010 Annual Disclosure Documents
Etrion Corporation develops, builds, owns and operates solar power plants. Etrion currently owns 47 megawatts (MW) of operational, ground-based solar energy photovoltaic (PV) plants in Italy.
Continue readingTHINK City electric vehicles: Two cents per km, whatever the price of oil
Two THINK City electric vehicles (EVs) with lithium ion batteries are on display at the motor show, the first with ?m-way?, THINK?s Swiss distributor, and Valmet Automotive.
Continue readingWind power in Ireland – ?100 million in savings for Irish power consumers
Wind energy will provide savings of up to ?100 million for Irish power consumers in the next ten years, a new study has claimed.
Continue readingIndonesia to build first wind farm in West Java
Next month, in addition to the wind energy project, the government will also issue three letters ordering PLN to buy power from geothermal energy.
Continue readingEnercon to supply wind turbines for new wind farm in Brazil
Elecnor, which is established in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, specified Roxtec in the wind energy project owned by Enerfin. The wind farm will consist of 25 Wobben Enercon wind turbines of 2.3 MW each.
Continue readingWind power electric car completes 5,000-km Australia journey
A bamboo windmill mast the pair took out and erected every 400 kilometers or so to generate the power to recharge the four lithium-ion batteries underneath the bonnet.
Continue readingLarge Arizona Solar Thermal Power Plant Approved
The Crossroads Solar Energy Project would use the same technology that SolarReserve is intending for the Crescent Dunes plant in Nevada and the Rice plant in California.
Continue readingDana Battery Cooling Technology Featured on All-New Chevrolet Volt
Dana Holding Corporation (NYSE: DAN) announced that it is supplying Long® internal battery cell coolers on the first advanced lithium-ion battery for a mass-marketed electric vehicles.
Continue readingBuffalo Wild Wings Introduces Florida?s First Restaurant-Based Electric Vehicles Charging Station
NovaCharge enables a smart charging infrastructure for plug-in Electric Cars (EVs) by providing a seamless, scalable, reliable and cost-effective solution.
Continue readingREC announces construction of 24 MW Solar Power Plant in Italy
REC Systems, a business unit of REC, has developed and financed, and is now constructing together with ABB, a 24.2 MW solar energy plant located in the Lazio region of Italy using 100,000 REC modules.
Continue readingWind Works Power Announces Procurement of Enercon Wind Turbines for Its German Wind Farm
Wind power Burg I is the first phase of a 2-phase, 10 MW wind energy project located near Magdeburg in the eastern part of Germany.
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