ChargePoint and Green Charge link batteries and public EV chargers to limit demand charges and make loads more flexible. Plug-in electric vehicles could be a major challenge or a major resource, according to the utilities plotting ways to turn EV charging stations into smart, grid-responsive resou... Read more

The Philippine unit of US energy giant AES Corp. is set to construct battery storage facilities to help address the country’s power supply problems. The facilities would store power from renewable energy such as solar and make this available for customers even when the main source is not availabl... Read more

Clean power giant SunEdison continues its expansion plans, snapping up a large player in the growing market for rooftop solar panels. Clean energy company SunEdison announced on Monday morning that it plans to acquire Vivint Solar, one of the largest U.S. companies that installs solar panels on hom... Read more

As the market for energy storage emerges, startups, Valley investors, big solar companies and Tesla are looking for a way in. Enough solar panels are now bolted to rooftops and installed on the ground in the deserts of the Southwest to supply solar energy for over 4 million American homes. B... Read more

After years of experimentation, Promethean Power Systems finds value in thermal storage for India. India is the world’s No. 1 milk producer. Unfortunately, rural India is not well served by the electrical grid -- creating problems for milk producers who need to keep their product cool. In much o... Read more

With Tesla’s Gigafactory apparently now set to end up far larger than was originally reported, others in the race towards dominance of the lithium-ion battery industry are apparently unwilling to keep silent either, based on recent comments from the head of Bosch Japan. Bosch and its partner GS ... Read more

Dynapower Company, the global leader in energy storage inverters, announced that it will be supplying the 250 kW energy storage inverters as an integral part of Tesla’s recently announced Powerpack Commercial battery systems for large commercial and utility customers. The Dynapower MPS™-250 inv... Read more

As a part of its plan to foray into solar power business, the Aditya Birla Group company will bid for upcoming solar power projects of government as well as private sectorAditya Birla Nuvo Ltd has become the latest big corporate house to join the solar energy bandwagon in India. Yesterday, Aditya... Read more

After raising money from Ratan Tata recently, Coimbatore-based electric vehicle start-up Ampere Vehicles Pvt Ltd has said it is planning to raise another Rs 20 crore and said it is also open for a strategic partner. Ampere is the first automobile start-up investment for Tata. The money which was ra... Read more

ViZn Energy Systems Inc. (ViZn), a leading provider of safe energy storage systems for commercial & industrial, microgrid and utility applications, today announced a collaboration with Princeton Power, a designer and manufacturer of power system products, to launch ViZn's ZAC energy storage sy... Read more

Berkeley Lab researchers' novel diffraction spectroscopy technique will provide insight to chemical processes at important battery interface IMAGE: SCHEMATIC ILLUSTRATION OF THE SPECTROSCOPY DESIGN WITH GRAPHENE GRATING: A) ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL AND SPECTROSCOPY CONFIGURATION (PT = PLATINUM); B) ... Read more

Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Fraunhofer ISE) has committed to expanding its research and development activities in a range of technologies considered “complementary” to solar as key foundations of a transformation to distributed, low emissions energy networks. Fraunhofer ISE h... Read more