stationary energy storage system Articles
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Did You Know? May 2021
Warren Buffett is proposing a natural gas solution to Texas’s troubled electrical grid? Remember back in February when Texas experienced the largest forced blackout in U.S history according to Time Magazine? Well, investment guru Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is proposing an $8.3 billion dollar fix with natural gas power generation. 10 gigawatts of gas plants with emergency gas ...
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If Cobalt is So Bad, Why are Some Companies Still Using it in Batteries? Part 1
The terrible consequences of cobalt mining and usage are both well documented and heartbreaking. Devastating environmental impacts from extration that render large swath of land unusuable and polluted waterways. Children forced to work in dangerous and claustrophobic 'artisanal' mines (a truly sinister euphemism). Toxicity, lung disease, heart failure, and cancer from exposure, even ...
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Are inverters PV’s Achilles Heel?
The organizers of the Utility Scale PV Yield Optimization Conference & Expo, gained exclusive access with Michael Levi, Senior Director Worldwide Marketing from Satcon to talk about the inverter market for utility solar projects, how they are positioning themselves in a competitive market and how reliable are these key components. Q1: What segment of the solar market are you targeting? ...
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If Cobalt is so bad, why are some companies still using it? Part 2
On our website recently, we started to ask and answer a fundamental question that is critical for the global energy storage industry to address – If cobalt is so bad, why are some companies still using it in lithium-ion ...
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