nventor Yi Cui doesn't just talk about how next-generation batteries will tranform the way we live. He talks on a phone that actually uses one of those next-generation batteries. Cui, an associate professor of materials science and engineering at Stanford University, developed batteries with silico... Read more

Ground was broken on what is soon to be the largest battery factory in the whole of Europe, in Karlstejn-Großwelzheim (Karlstein), Germany. Occasionally referred to as a “German Gigafactory,” the Batterien-Montage-Zentrums (BMZ) facility is currently expected to be completed by 2020. It will... Read more

The utilities want to embrace change. The hard part is figuring out how to go about itIn presentations and interviews with Greentech Media at DistribuTECH 2015,utility executives expressed various strategies for coping with the power industry's impending transformation. Several recently released r... Read more

Energy storage is likely to be worth “tens of billion dollars in the next five to 10 years” across a number of global regions, according to executives at solar microinverter firm Enphase. Paul Nahi, president and chief executive of Enphase said in his company’s quarterly earnings call earlier... Read more

Private sector project developers in India’s rapidly growing renewable energy would be happy to have the backing of the country’s largest bank as they get ready to participate in cut-throat competitive bidding. The State Bank of India (SBI) has committed to provide $12.5 billion in debt fundi... Read more

Next-Generation Battery Provides Extreme Weather Capabilities Jacksonville, FL, February 18, 2015 – Saft, the world’s leading designer and manufacturer of high technology batteries for industry, was selected by Northwest Territories Power Corporation (NTPC) to develop ... Read more

Interest grows in combining storage technologies to serve different applications. European energy storage players are taking a leading role in developing hybrid systems that can cover several applications at once, improving investment returns. Companies such as Bosch and Younicos have recently unv... Read more

Operational arrangement to provide frequency regulation to ISOs across the United States Alevo Group, a leading Energy Storage Provider, today announced that it has signed a joint operational agreement with Customized Energy Solutions (CES), a leading energy services company, to provide 200MW of Gr... Read more

LG Chem will provide batteries to the largest commercial ESS business in Japan where the secondary battery technology was originated. As LG Chem announced on the 15th, it has received an order from the Green Power Development Corporation (GPD) of Japan for lithium-ion secondary batteries for ESS bus... Read more

Flow batteries for forklifts, new proton exchange membranes and sodium-ion cathode structures, and other potential breakthroughsThe Department of Energy’s ARPA-E program was created to give “blue-sky” research projects the money they need to prove whether or not they’re ready for commercia... Read more

India is looking to smart grid infrastructure to help tackle an out-of-control electricity theft problem and improve reliability. Theft costs the Indian power sector $16.2bn per year. India's government has already committed billions of dollars in funding for smart grid infrastructure and cumula... Read more

The Interstate Renewable Energy Council has released a timely report addressing the many issues of managing infrastructure of a modern electric grid. The lead paragraph from the Executive Summary of “Easing the Transition to a More Distributed Electricity System” quite clearly establishes the i... Read more