A startup called Energy Vault thinks it has a viable alternative to pumped-hydro: Instead of using water and dams, the startup uses concrete blocks and cranes. Akshat Rathi explains in an article on the Quartz website. What do you think?   Stacking concrete blocks is a surprisingly efficient way to store energy Thanks to the … Continue reading Novel approach to store energy →

The energy transition is leading to many innovations. Never have I read before about using one of America’s major dams as a reservoir of electricity, fed by solar farms and wind turbines. Ivan Penn explains in an article in the New York Times. Are you aware of other such projects?   The $3 Billion Plan … Continue reading A major challenge to turn a dam into a vast energy storage system →

Sam Davis writes on the Power Electronics website about a 5-MW/15-MWh liquid air energy-storage (LAES) system supports solar and wind renewable power and provides reserve, grid-balancing, and regulation services. How important a development is this? Do you have any views?   First Grid-Scale Liquid Air Energy-Storage Plant Launched According to Highview Power, the first grid-scale … Continue reading New development in liquid air energy storage →

More and more we are reading about developments in energy storage. Melissa Warren from the UK Energy Research Centre writes on the Phys.org website about the world's first green energy storage demonstrator. What are your views on this development?   World's first green energy storage demonstrator The world's first green energy storage demonstrator is now … Continue reading New green energy storage demonstrator project underway in UK →

Regularly we are hearing about new developments in energy storage. Adam Vaughan writes in The Guardian about a pilot project by Siemens in Oxfordshire to use ammonia for energy storage. Siemens hopes to better conventional batteries to store renewably generated power.   Siemens pilots the use of ammonia for green energy storage A chemical compound … Continue reading New pilot project to use ammonia as new form of energy storage →

EiD has had many posts on energy storage, in terms of their deployment and in terms of new technological breakthroughs. Alan Boyle writes on the Geek Wire website about important new investments in energy storage by a company backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. They have done quite well in the past. Will this … Continue reading Deployment of energy storage systems should expand when you consider who is investing in them →

There has been an important new technology breakthrough at Stanford University in developing a manganese-hydrogen battery. Tom Abate explains on the Stanford News website.   New water-based battery offers large-scale energy storage Stanford scientists have developed a manganese-hydrogen battery that could fill a missing piece in the nation’s energy puzzle by storing wind and solar … Continue reading New developments in energy storage →

With increased frequency we are reading about developments in energy storage. John Andrews,, Professor, School of Engineering, at RMIT University in Australia writes about the development of a proton battery. What do you think about it?   How protons can power our future energy needs As the world embraces inherently variable renewable energy sources to … Continue reading We will need a truly gargantuan amount of electrical energy storage and “proton” batteries could make a valuable contribution →