alternative energy storage News
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Frost & Sullivan to Provide Industry Leaders with Key Insights into the Energy Storage Market
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. Frost & Sullivan'sEnergy & Power Systems Senior Industry Analyst, Anu Cherian, will speak at the Advanced Energy Storage 2010 Conference & Exposition on Monday, October 11, 2010. This discussion aims to explore the growth opportunities, trends and new application potential within the energy storage market. The focus is on energy storage technologies to be clean, ...
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Alfa Chemistry Enriches Its Chemical Database by Adding Photoactive Polymers, Alternative Energy Materials, and Micro-Nano Electric Materials
Earlier this month, the New York-based chemical supplier Alfa Chemistry announced the addition of photoactive polymers, alternative energy materials, and micro-nano electric materials to its already well-established material portfolio. Over the past few years, the company has gained fame in providing a wide range of novel chemicals and materials, including: nanomaterials, MOFs, COFs, nanofibers, ...
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NREL Heats Up Thermal Energy Storage with New Solution Meant To Ease Grid Stress, Ultimately Improving Energy Efficiency
Scientists from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have developed a simple way to better evaluate the potential of novel materials to store or release heat on demand in homes, offices, or other buildings in a way that more efficiently manages the building's energy use. Their work, featured in Nature Energy, proposes a new design method that could make the process of heating and ...
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Alfa Chemistry Offers Abundant Choices of Alternative Energy Materials for Energy Storage & Batteries
To harness greenhouse gas emissions and alter global warming, Alfa Chemistry recently announced diverse choices of alternative energy materials. Among them, solar cell materials, LiFePO4 battery materials, ternary lithium-ion battery materials, and energy storage materials are specially designed for use in developing energy storage systems and batteries. Due to the pollution-free and renewable ...
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California Energy Commission Awards $31 Million to Support Clean Energy Entrepreneurs
Recently (6/12) the California Energy Commission awarded more than $31 million to help advance clean energy research to the next stage.The projects, funded by the Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) program, are designed to help accelerate the electricity sector's transformation to meet the state's energy and climate goals. The program has invested more than $718 million in cutting-edge ...
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The Antenna Group Top 10 Cleantech Trends to Watch in 2013
Antenna Group is the nation's largest clean technology public relations firm, representing companies in sectors including renewable energy, energy efficiency, alternative fuels, energy storage, finance, waste management and water. Here, drawn from input provided by our client-partners, is Antenna's list of the top 10 cleantech trends to watch in 2013. According to these trends, 2013 is shaping ...
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Eos Energy Enterprises Announces Project AMAZE,' a $500M Program to Address Storage Demand
Eos Energy Enterprises, a leading provider of zinc-powered long-duration stationary energy storage systems, this week (Aug 31) announced Project AMAZE American Made Zinc Energy, a $500 million planned expansion and a significant milestone to build 8 GWh of clean energy storage production capacity. Project AMAZE supports Eos' strategy to address increased long-duration energy storage demand driven ...
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Dow and Ube Form Joint Venture to Manufacture Electrolytes for Lithium-Ion Batteries
The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE:DOW) and Ube Industries, Ltd. (Ube) today announced an agreement to form a joint venture to manufacture and market formulated electrolytes for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) in energy storage applications. The 50-50 joint venture, named Advanced Electrolyte Technologies LLC, is expected to be finalized later this year, pending regulatory approval. The joint venture ...
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New Buildings Consortium to Focus on Benefits of Thermal and Electrochemical Energy Storage
Stor4Build is a new consortium on energy storage for buildings that will accelerate the growth, optimization, and deployment of storage technologies. The consortium will be co-led by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). "The need for energy storage continues to ...
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Dais Analytic Announces Development Progress in Energy Storage
Dais Analytic Corporation (OTCBB: DLYT) announced today the Company's development progress, since its last report in September 2011, on its program to produce a capacitive energy storage material set for use as an ultracapacitor named "NanoCap?." The Company, working with the University of Florida (UF), tested different capacitive dielectric structures created by Dais from its family of ...
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Alfa Chemistry Materials Launches Alternative Energy Materials for Renewable Energy Technology Development
Efficient collection and storage of renewable forms of energy, such as solar radiation or wind, requires the development of advanced functional materials. To better meet the increasing demand for such functional materials, Alfa Chemistry Materials, a chemical vendor headquartered in New York, USA, announced to provide a broad varieties of alternative energy materials for research groups or ...
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Ioxus is Named in the 2012 Global Cleantech 100
Ioxus, Inc., a manufacturer of premium performance ultracapacitor technology for transportation, alternative energy, medical, industrial and consumer product markets, today announced it was named in the prestigious 2012 Global Cleantech 100, produced by Cleantech Group, a leading global research and advisory firm focused on innovation in energy and ...
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Video from Siemens and Synaptic Digital: Boeing, Siemens Form Strategic Alliance for DOD Energy Modernization
Boeing and Siemens today announced a strategic alliance for the joint development and marketing of "smart grid" technologies to improve energy access and security for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), the largest energy consumer in the federal government. See video from Siemens at: http://inr.synapticdigital.com/Siemens/Boeing/ The collaboration centers on providing U.S. military ...
By Siemens AG
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Duke Energy Supports Reliability, Grid Operations with Two New Lithium-ion Battery Sites in Florida
Duke Energy Florida this week announced two new lithium-ion battery sites in Alachua and Hamilton counties to enhance grid operations, increase efficiencies and improve overall reliability for surrounding communities. As the grid manager and operator, Duke Energy Florida can optimize the versatility of battery technology to provide multiple customer and electric system benefits, to include ...
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Duke Energy Florida to Build Its Largest Battery Storage Projects Yet
Duke Energy Florida (DEF) recently (6/3) announced three battery storage projects, totaling 22 megawatts, that will improve overall reliability and support critical services during power outages. Collectively, the storage facilities will enhance grid operations, increase efficiencies and improve overall reliability for surrounding communities. They will also provide important backup generation ...
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Hydrostor Announces Australia’s First Compressed Air Energy Storage Facility, Advances Global Pipeline of Utility-Scale Projects
Hydrostor Inc., a leader in Advanced Compressed Air Energy Storage (A-CAES), is pleased to announce that its subsidiary, Hydrostor Australia Pty Ltd, has been awarded a combined total of $9 million of grant funding for Australia’s first A-CAES project, to be sited at a mine outside of Adelaide—the Angas Zinc Mine. The project represents a key milestone in the advancement of ...
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First Solar Acquires 50 MWAC Macho Springs Project from Element Power Solar
First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) and Element Power Solar today announced that First Solar has acquired the 50-megawattAC (MW) Macho Springs Solar project that Element Power Solar has developed in Luna County, N.M. When complete, it will be the state’s largest solar power project. The photovoltaic (PV) solar project is expected to be completed in 2014, providing up to 400 construction jobs, ...
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Ameresco Completes First Phase of Department of Defense-Funded Flow Battery Investigation
Ameresco, Inc., a leading energy efficiency and renewable energy company, recently announced the completion of phase-one of a multi-stage investigation of how flow battery technology could support microgrids with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Conducted in partnership with 2ndPath Energy, this research is funded by the Department of Defense's Environmental Security Technology Certification ...
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Dow revs up energy alternatives with novel u.s. fleet trucks
Dow recently reached an agreement with Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc. to produce novel plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) fleet trucks. Commercially available PHEVs are primarily passenger cars and offer significant advantages by reducing gasoline usage, maintenance requirements and CO2 emissions. Dow and a major utility company are the first to engage Quantum Technologies, ...
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