General Electric has refined its strategy at its Energy Storage business. Four years after GE opened the $170 million Durathon battery manufacturing plant in Schenectady, New York, the company has switched gears and is now focused creating a consulting and services business to help customers deter... Read more

A day trader cannibalized a Tesla to go off the grid. That's the spirit igniting a revolution in solar energy. Illustration by Dorothy Gambrell Revolutions that start in the garage are nothing new. The one-car shed in which David Packard and William Hewlett launched the partnership t... Read more

A group of experts is expected to finalise details this week of a road map to install 160 Gigawatts (GW) of battery storage worldwide in 2030, reports Jason Deign of Energy Storage Report. The plan, being developed by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), would see nearly four times as... Read more

Professor Eicke Weber at Energy Storage Europe in Dusseldorf this morning. The use of energy storage to increase renewables integration and provide stability to the grid requires the removal of regulatory barriers, rather than increased direct funding, according to one expert on the German market... Read more

The rapid change in the way electricity is delivered to customers is about to be highlighted by a new project that will see a new housing estate built without being connected to the grid. The idea has the support of the government of South Australia, a state which already sources 40 per cent of it... Read more

It’s the first big solar player to dive into energy storage—but it won’t be the last. Last month, we predicted that one of the country’s big vertically integrated solar companies would make a move into the energy storage business this year by acquiring a U.S.-based storage company. Here... Read more

The Indian Government’s aggressive policies and ambitious capacity addition targets have helped it jump to the best rank in market attractiveness in the renewable energy sector in at least about two years. The latest edition (PDF) of Ernst & Young Renewable Energy Market Attractiveness Inde... Read more

Japanese energy efficiency solutions provider Fuji Electric has said it was in the process of identifying smart city projects in India and Andhra Pradesh, in particular, to offer their solutions. Kazuhiko Hanaoka, General Manager, Fuji Electric, Power & Social Infrastructure Group, toldBusiness... Read more

Deployments will increase from 62 megawatts in 2014 to 220 megawatts in 2015. The U.S. is on the cusp of a breakout year for energy storage, according to the inaugural U.S. Energy Storage Monitor report from GTM Research and the Energy Storage Association (ESA). The country is forecasted to deplo... Read more

Powerstar Australasia, a world-leading manufacturer of voltage optimisation systems, has released a new energy storage system designed to save large power users significant amounts of money each year in energy costs. Large users across commercial, industrial, educational and government sectors nego... Read more

Kenneth Munson of Sunverge Energy builds the business case for energy storage and its value for both electricity consumers and providers. In hundreds of installations and over years of run-time, customer-sited energy storage technology has been proven to offer a multitude of benefits to the electri... Read more

A major new Deutsche Bank report has predicted that energy storage – the “missing link of solar adoption” – will be cheap enough – and technologically ready – to be deployed on a large-scale within the next five years. The solar industry report, published on Friday, said that while cost... Read more