Advanced Battery News

2/24/10 - Energy storage – It's not all about batteries

2/24/10 - Intel researching advanced battery storage

2/23/10 - Breakthrough in Energy Storage: Isentropic Energy

2/23/10 - General Compression Pumps in $17M for Fuel-free Air Energy Storage

2/22/10 - Albertan oil veteran pumping up 'nitrogen grid'

2/22/10 - Energy storage device uses technology from University of Texas

2/22/10 - Large-scale storage of wind energy using compressed nitrogen and old pipelines… Could it work?

2/22/10 - Where Batteries Go to Be Tortured

2/20/10 - Energy secretary warns of trailing in race for energy

2/19/10 - Saft Energy Storage System to Support Caribbean Island of Bonaire Power Grid in Switch to Eco-Friendly Generation

2/19/10 - DesignLine battle with AltairNano headed to court

2/16/10 - Solar's Popularity Seen as Threat to Grid Stability in Czech Republic

2/16/10 - Funds Trickle Into Flow Batteries, EnerVault Raises First Round

2/15/10 - E.ON Says U.K. Power Prices Must Reflect Cost of Backup Plants

2/13/10 - California Project to Demonstrate Use of Batteries to Store Solar, Wind Power

213/10 - EcoloCap Solutions Announces First U.S. Delivery of CNT-Battery

2/11/10 - Grid Scale Energy Storage: CAES, Black & Veatch

2/11/10 - NREL Battery Testing Capabilities Get a Boost

2/9/10 - JAPAN'S NGK INSULATORS EYES NAS-BATTERY POWER SERVICES IN U.K.

2/9/10 - Company Hopes to Put SoCal's Power-Storage Problems on Ice

2/9/10 - Xtreme Power Expands Management Team with Former Calpine & EON Executive

2/5/10 - ZBB Energy Announces Retirement of COO and New, Expanded Roles for Key Executives

2/4/10 - DOE Reports That Lithium-ion Batteries Are Still Not Ready For Prime Time

2/3/10 - Playing the 'Global Grid Game' - Japan's NGK, GE Majority-Owned Indo Tech Look Strong

2/2/10 - Kansai Electric Power researches technology for power system stabilization using storage batteries

2/1/10 - Lithium batteries tapped for community storage

1/31/10 - Fundamental Differences Between Energy Storage and Other Sectors

1/29/10 - US solar startup teams up with battery maker

1/28/10 - The Return of Battery Back-Up Solar

1/27/10 - Exide Technologies Opens New Global Technology Center

1/25/10 - KAWASAKI HEAVY LOOKS TO BATTERY TECH TO BOOST SHIP FUEL ECONOMY
(Big ships have 3 1000KW generators)

1/25/10 - BYD moving into Solar? Duke Gets into Solar, Gates Likes Nuclear

1/24/10 - Indian Government In Talks With MIT To Source Its High-Capacity Solar Power Battery System

1/22/10 - EnerDel shows off battery production facility, plans for $237 million expansion

1/21/10 - FERC extends transmission rate incentives to battery storage projects

1/19/10 - Utility-scale Energy Storage “Will Have Its Coming Out Party” This Year

1/19/10 - EnerDel Will Develop Batteries for Residential Smart Grid Storage Project Near Tokyo

1/12/10 - Parker Hannifin Completes Grid-Scale Energy Storage System

1/10/10 - GM Expects Electric Cars' Range to Vary Greatly

1/10/10 - Battery plant gets federal boost Obama says $25.5M GE tax credit to garner ‘green’ jobs
(GE Sodium metal halide batteries)

1/9/10 - Greentech Factories Get $2.3B in Tax Credits, Obama Wants $5B More

1/8/10 - ZBB Energy Corporation Receives $14.685 Million Clean Energy Tax Credit

1/3/10 - CSU lab works to get better electric-car batteries to market
(Lithium Ion at 1/3 cost)

12/30/09 - Panasonic to Sell Battery Big Enough to Power a (very efficient) House

12/29/09 - Axion Power develops revolutionary battery

12/27/09 - Panasonic battery to power homes for one week

12/26/09 - Generating Solar Power After Dark
(molten salt in a solar thermal plant)

12/24/09 - OM Group buys battery maker EaglePicher Technologies for $172 million

12/22/09 - PG&E Signs 150-MW Solar-Power Contract With Solar Reserve

12/21/09 - Stimulus puts U.S. renewable energy generation on track to double by 2012

12/19/09 - Solyndra files for $300m IPO

12/17/09 - Flywheel Energy Storage on New England Power Grid

12/17/09 - A123 Systems, SAIC to set up China car battery Joint Venture

12/15/09 - Venture Capitol: DOE is the New VC Force

12/10/09 - Senate Panel Looks At Electricity Storage

12/10/09 - Panasonic Acquires 50 Percent of Sanyo for 404 Billion Yen
(Sanyo is the world's largest mfg of Li Ion)

12/9/09 - Pittsburgh startup Tech 44 receives $5M to develop BIG batteries, hiring

12/9/09 - NGK Battery Sales May Soar on Japan Clean Energy Plan

12/8/09 - Parker SSD Drives Division Improves Grid Stability with Energy Storage System
(12MW Battery Frequency regulation commissioned 11/16/09)

12/7/09 - Lithium for 4.8 Billion Electric Cars Lets Bolivia Upset Market
(Great overall description of lithium market)

12/4/09 - The battery of the future
(Silicon instead of carbon electrodes in Li batteries)

12/4/09 - Panasonic in Talks to Sell EV Batteries After Sanyo Purchase

12/3/09 - Sony to enter EV battery market

12/2/09 - Sodium-Ion Cells for Cheap Energy Storage

11/30/09 - Duke Energy Receives DOE Grant for Wind Power Storage

11/30/09 - Will hydrogen breakthrough come in the form of a better battery? Maybe YESS!

11/30/09 - EnerDel Scores Power Regulation Deal, Gets Toe-hold in SmartGrid Conversion

11/29/09 - Silicon, the new lithium?

11/26/09 - MID will test cells that store green energy  (Primus Powers 75MWh battery)

11/25/09 - Painesville to receive $3.7M in federal money for energy storage initiative

11/25/09 - $14 million grant to help MID store wind energy

11/25/09 - Xtreme Power: Super Dry Battery

11/25/09 - Edison in test of backup power ($5M to test if used car batteries can be used for utility ES)

11/25/09 - Carnegie Mellon University battery generates interest, $5M grant

11/24/09 - New flywheel technology promises utility-scale energy storage (Flywheels that store 8.1MWh energy)

11/24/09 - China's State Grid Enters Utility Storage Market (China making their own Sodium/Sulfur Batteries)

11/24/09 - Secretary Chu Announces $620 Million for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

11/20/09 - Liquid battery big enough for the electric grid?

11/19/09 - Duke Energy Wants to Own Every Piece of the Smart Grid

11/19/09 - Where will the VC money flow on the Smart Grid?
("killer apps in the future will be in the storage of electricity")

11/19/09 - AES Installs Energy Storage System in Chile
(12 MW of frequency regulation and spinning reserve)

11/18/09 - Department of Energy Announces More Than $104 Million for National Laboratory Facilities
(including many battery testing facilities)

11/17/09 - The New Storage Economy

11/17/09 - Has ERRA just launched the future of advanced batteries?

11/15/09 -  3 Questions for 3 Energy Storage Experts

11/15/09 - The Future in Two Words: Ionic Liquids
(Ionic liquids could make batteries cheaper and increase energy density)

11/15/09 - The YESS Storage Battery is Your Energy Storage Solution

11/11/09 - Flywheels to buffer 20 megawatts on grid

11/11/09 - Sion Power Receives DOE Grant to Enhance Lithium Sulfur Batteries
(No battery has better energy density potential than LiS, except for Li-Air)

11/7/09 - Railroads & Windmills: Berkshire's 'Green' Bets
(Warren Buffet bets on advanced batteries)

11/6/09 -
Kawasaki Heavy Plans New Battery Plant to Tap Renewables Demand  (Kawasaki Heavy Industries wants to compete with NGK NaS battery)

11/5/09 - Exide Technologies Launches ReStore Energy Systems Division to Develop New Renewable Energy Storage
(Exide finally getting in the game?)

11/4/09 -
Total, MIT to work on batteries that store solar

11/5/09 -
Betting on a Metal-Air Battery Breakthrough (Fluidic Energy, ionic liquids for electrolyte, could be a wonder fluid if cheap enough, forget about hydrogen evolution)

11/3/09 - Zinc air battery maker looks beyond lithium  
(Revolt Technology also looking at Grid Storage)

11/3/09 - Japan, Land of the Rising Grid-Tied Battery

10/30/09 - Obama Administration Seen Prodding Electric-Power Storage

10/29/09 - Grid Storage: Austin Energy Breaks It Down

10/28/09 - Xtreme Power receives Tax Credits valued at $104 million for manufacturing facility.

10/27/09 - French billionaire launches $1.5B EV battery play

10/26/09 - DOE supplied $150 million in grants for ARPA, energy storage gets largest share


10/25/09 - New type of battery could make recharging electric cars easier

10/23/09 - Stockpiling electrons: key to take-up of renewable energy?


10/21/09 - Grid-Connected Lithium-ion Batteries to Soar to $1B Biz by 2018 - says Pike Research

10/20/09 - A123 Talks with DOE about another $250 million in Loans for Battery Manufacturing

10/15/09 - Lone Star Energy: Why Texas Will Resist the Call for a Unified Grid

 

 

 

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