India could be utilising its renewable energy sources much more effectively with adequate storage systems

This may be true for all countries, but TCA Shrad Raghavan writes a good article on The Hindu website about the impact of inadequate storage systems on renewables utilisation in India. India wastes 15-20% of its renewable energy due to lack of storage: Panasonic Energy head The variations in wind and solar energy, and … Continue reading India could be utilising its renewable energy sources much more effectively with adequate storage systems →

Demonstrating how storage system can create a virtual power plant

AGL, one of Australia's leading integrated energy companies, has a project in Adelaide to roll out 1,000 battery systems to homes and businesses that will operate like a 5MW plant, and optimise energy produced from solar panels. Michael Slezak writes about the latest developments in The Guardian. This project will be important for all of … Continue reading Demonstrating how storage system can create a virtual power plant →

Flywheel device could help solve storage problems

EiD is always looking for new technologies that can help solve our energy transition problems. Tereza Pultarova writes on the Engineering and Technology Magazine website about a flywheel-based device invented by a university student that is showing good promise. Renewable energy storage revolutionised by flywheel device A flywheel-based device invented by a Lancaster University … Continue reading Flywheel device could help solve storage problems →

Too cheap to meter?

According to Giles Parkinson, writing on the RenewEconomy website from Australia, a combination of renewable energy, storage and big data may deliver what we thought nuclear energy was going to do in the 1960s – provide energy that is essentially free. This is interesting to read as we reflect on the British decision to delay … Continue reading Too cheap to meter? →

The market opportunities for UK energy storage

We all know that there are many important developments underway to improve energy storage technologies. A news item on the Renewable Energy Focus website discusses a new report that makes a series of far-reaching recommendations to level the playing field for rapidly developing energy storage technologies. New report sets out blueprint for investment in … Continue reading The market opportunities for UK energy storage →

Building the “Apple of clean energy”

Diane Cardwell writes an important column in the New York Times about the implications of the merger of Tesla, the electric car manufacturer, and SolarCity. Where is this all leading? But the opening sentence about imagining a world “in which every home and building is a miniature power plant” is intriguing. We are starting to … Continue reading Building the “Apple of clean energy” →

Batteries could transform the face of UK’s electricity industry

EiD often provides news on recent developments in power storage systems. Pilita Clark writes in the Financial Times about the investments in storage systems that could help the wind industry solve their “key challenge” of not working on windless days. Battery-power investments energise UK renewables sector Energy companies are pouring unprecedented sums of money … Continue reading Batteries could transform the face of UK’s electricity industry →

The pathways for increasing all forms of energy storage opportunities are less developed

We often write about the important developments in energy storage. Robin Roy, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s Building Energy Efficiency and Clean Energy Strategy, Energy & Transportation Program, provides a very good blog on the Energy Efficiency Markets website about recent developments in community energy storage. Community Energy Storage for Cleaner, Lower-Cost … Continue reading The pathways for increasing all forms of energy storage opportunities are less developed →

Reviewing the progress made in the market for lithium used for battery technology

Nick Butler writes in the Financial Times about the changes that are taking place in the market for lithium used in more effective, long-life batteries. Butler questions whether this market boom will last. What do you think? Lithium: is the hype justified? After two years of unrelenting gloom it is good to see that … Continue reading Reviewing the progress made in the market for lithium used for battery technology →

Colourful goop that could lead way for new method to store energy

Undoubtedly, the efforts to improve how we can store energy will have a big impact on sustainable energy policy. Ivan Semeniuk writes a good article in Canada’s Globe and Mail about a new material that researchers believe could lead to a commercially attractive method to store energy. New material raises hopes for cheap renewable … Continue reading Colourful goop that could lead way for new method to store energy →