energy storage simulation News
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NREL Model Licensed to Improve Accuracy of Battery Simulations
The Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has licensed its Equivalent Circuit Battery Model to software developer ThermoAnalytics for use in its recently updated RadTherm software package. The model is a part of the Battery Module within RadTherm, which is used by engineers to simulate the performance of battery cells and optimize multi-cell pack designs. Before ...
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Concentrated Solar Power’s question of scale: Why bigger is not better
In a bid to identify the tipping point between scale and cost efficiency, the latest report from CSP Today, ‘CSP Parabolic Trough Report: Costs and Performance’, challenges the conventional wisdom on scale and cost. Scaling up plant size is often cited as the concentrated solar power sector’s silver bullet for lowering costs. The theory - that an inverse relationship exists ...
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Energy Toolbase Integrates its Controls Software with BYD
Energy Toolbase has integrated its energy storage controls software with BYD (Build Your Dreams), a leader in battery and energy storage technology. As part of the integration, Energy Toolbase will add BYD to its sales and modeling platform, enabling renewable energy developers to seamlessly analyze and propose the economics of BYD energy storage projects, either standalone or paired with solar ...
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NREL teams up on three ARPA-E Projects to optimize electric vehicle battery management and controls
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has joined DOE and research partners in launching the Advanced Management and Protection of Energy Storage Devices (AMPED) program with a kick-off meeting in San Francisco. Over the next three years, NREL engineers will work with teams led by Utah State University, Washington University, and Eaton Corporation ...
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NREL Tool Finds Effective Behind-the-Meter Energy Storage Configurations
The Energy Department's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has used the Battery Lifetime Analysis and Simulation Tool (BLAST) to confirm that energy storage for demand-charge management can deliver attractive economic benefits. The analysis paired recent utility rate structures with historic data on solar photovoltaic electricity generation and commercial facility loads to evaluate ...
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Secretary Chu announces carbon capture and storage simulation initiative
U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced today the creation of the Carbon Capture and Storage Simulation Initiative with an investment of up to $40 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The partnership announced today will bring together national laboratories and regional university alliances to collaborate on advancing the science and research related to carbon capture ...
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Secretary Chu announces simulation-based engineering user center
U.S Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced the creation of the Simulation-Based Engineering User Center (SBEUC) that will facilitate collaborative computational research for energy applications. Funded with $20 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the SBEUC will be primarily used for developing and deploying the simulation tools developed under the Carbon ...
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Registration Opens For NASA Night Rover Energy Challenge
Registration is open for teams seeking to compete in the $1.5 million energy storage competition known as the Night Rover Challenge, sponsored by NASA and the Cleantech Open of Palo Alto, Calif. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO ) To win, a team must demonstrate a stored energy system that can power a simulated solar-powered exploration vehicle that can operate ...
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A molecular approach to solar power
Original story at MIT news. It’s an obvious truism, but one that may soon be outdated: The problem with solar power is that sometimes the sun doesn’t shine. Now a team at MIT and Harvard University has come up with an ingenious workaround — a material that can absorb the sun’s heat and store that energy in chemical form, ready to be released again on demand. This ...
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