Storage except Vehicles
2022-2024 Articles
Flow Batteries Could Harness Japan’s Wind and Sun to Replace Coal and Gas 1124
Lithium-Ion Batteries, on Top for Decades, Face Sodium-Ion Challenger 1124
Tesla Energy Storage Deployments to Double in 2024 - 1024
US Grid Added Battery Equivalent of 20 Big Nuclear Reactors in Past 4 Years 1024
Form Energy’s Utility-Sized Battery Can Run for 4 Days 1024
More Innovation Needed to Reach US 5¢:kWh Target for Long-Duration Storage 0824
Illinois Can Replace Fossil Plants with Storage, Capacity from Queues 0824
Hydrogen Too Costly for Baseload Generation but Could Be Long-Term Storage 0724
IRA Could Make US Lithium-Ion Battery Systems Competitive with Chinese Ones 0724
US to Add 217 GW of Distributed Energy Resource Capacity through 2028 - 0724
Tesla Energy Deploys Company Record 9.4 GWh of Storage in Q2 2024 - 0724
China’s Batteries Are Now Cheap Enough to Power Huge Shifts to EVs 0724
US Energy Storage Installations Set Q1 Record with 84% Jump 0624
Batteries Are Taking Charge of the California Grid 0524
Thermal, Compressed Air Cheaper than Lithium-Ion Batteries for 8+ Hour Storage 0624
Car Batteries as a Grid Resource 0624
Designer of World’s Tallest Building Wants to Turn Skyscrapers into Batteries 0524
Recovering Electricity from Heat Storage Hits 44% Efficiency 0524
Batteries Saved Texas Consumers $683 Million during 2-Day January Freeze 0524
Sodium Batteries from Michigan to Challenge Lithium’s Grip 0424
Why Rust Is the Future of Very Cheap Batteries 0324
New Kind of Power Company Aims to Put a Battery in Every Texas Home 0524
Compressed Air for Long-Duration Energy Storage Approaches Moment of Truth 0524
Florida P&L Doubles Planned New Storage to More than 4 GW over 10 Years 0424
Battery Storage Costs Could Fall Up to 40% by 2030 - IEA 0424
The World Is Our Battery 0424 - a bit on 5 energy storage technologies: compressed air, lifting weights (gravity), concentrated heat, freezing then melting ice, flywheels. Capacity, duration, lifertime, pros & cons
Energy Storage for Grid Reliability Can Increase Carbon Emissions 0424 - in a grid that is heavy with coal
Solar-EV-Heat Pump Homes Buy Electricity When It’s Cheap, Sell When It’s Costly 0424
US Grid Connection Queues Jumped 27% to 2.6 TW in 2023, Led by Solar, Storage 0424
US Energy Storage Rises 4.2 GW in Q4 2023, Year’s Additions Up 90% over 2022 - 0324
US Energy Storage Rises 59% amidst the Era of EVs and Falling Lithium Prices 0324
The Largest US Solar + Storage Project Is Complete 0124
BYD, Other Battery Giants Bet on Sodium for EVs & Storage, Challenging Lithium 1123
World Energy Storage Capacity Forecast to Exceed 1 TeraWatt-hour by 2030 - 1023
Green Mountain Power Proposes Home Energy Storage for All Vermonters 1023
Sodium-Seawater Batteries for Long-Term Stationary Energy Storage 1023
US Energy Storage Capacity Additions Rise 161% in Q2, Set New Record 0923
Xcel Colorado’s $15 Billion Plan - Double Renewables, Add Gas & Energy Storage 0923
Bill Gates-Backed Startup Pilots Thermal Storage Battery to Help Heavy Industry 0923
Energy Vault in Gravity Energy Storage Agreement with US Renewable Developer 0823
G.M. Will Add Backup Power Function to Its Electric Vehicles 0823
California Grid Has Expanded Battery Storage 10-Fold in in 3 Years 0723
US DoE Lab Boosts Flow Battery Capacity, Life Using Starch Derivative 0723
EcoFlow Just Launched Plug-and-Play Solar + Storage for Apartments 0623
Fighting Climate Change With Hot Bricks, Factory by Factory 0623
US Battery Storage Rose by 52% Year over Year, to 10.8 GW by End of 2023 Q1 - 0523
Multiplying Solar and Battery Factories Put Net Zero in Closer Reach 0523
York Energy Storage to Build $2.1 Billion, 858-MW Pennsylvania Pumped Storage 0523
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Is It a Lake, or a Battery? A New Kind of Hydropower Is Spreading Fast. 0523
Company Builds Facility That Lifts and Lowers 24-Tonne Bricks to Store Energy 0423
Why Rust Is the Future of Very Cheap Batteries 0323
New 200-MW Texas Storage Facility Is Largest Merchant Battery in World 0323
U.S. Energy Storage Capacity to Increase Nearly 6 X in 5 Years 0323
Battery Bonanza Is Being Sparked by Coal’s Exit in Australia 0323
U.S. Energy Storage Made Record Gains Last Year 0323
Giant Water Battery in the Alps Could Revolutionize Energy Storage 0223
B2U Reaches 25 MWh Storage Capacity with Used Honda & Nissan EV Batteries 0223
Tesla’a Q4 Storage Deployments Rise 152% to 2.5 GWh 0123
Xcel to Install Multi-Day Storage at Retired Coal Plant Sites, Eyes Green Hydrogen 0123
Energy Storage Is a Cost-Effective Alternative to Transmission, to Integrate Renewables 0123
This Giant Underground Battery Is a $1-Billion Clean Energy Solution 0123
Texas Project Will Use Wind to Make Hydrogen Fuel Out of Water 0123
California Wine Town to Fight Blackouts with Batteries, Hydrogen 0123
Batteries That Store Energy Using Rusting Iron Could Help Decarbonize the Grid 1222
New Battery Is Cheaper than Lithium-Ion, with 4 X the Capacity 1222
Developers, Power Plants to Boost US Battery Storage Nearly 4 X by 2026 – EIA 1222
Commitments for 57 GW of Long-Duration Energy Storage since 2019 - 1222
Vanadium Flow Batteries Could Leapfrog over Pumped Hydro for Long Duration Energy Storage 1122
Super-Hot Salt Could Be Coming to a Battery near You 1122
Thermal Energy Could Raise Global Long-Duration Storage to 8 TW by 2040 - 1122
Storing Renewable Energy in Hot Sand Provides Heat for Long Nordic Nights 1122
Inflation Reduction Act Will Drive Development of 111 GWh of Energy Storage 1022
World’s Largest Compressed Air Energy Storage Project Goes Online in China 1022
Texas Drives Record Growth in US Energy Storage Market in Q2 of 2022 - 0922
India Plans to Become Green Hydrogen Giant to Cut Energy Imports 0922
Britain Bets on Futuristic Batteries to Cut Dependence on Gas 0822
PG&E, Tesla Virtual Power Plant Delivers 16.5 MW to Stressed California Grid 0822
Sand “Batteries” Could Solve the energy Storage Challenge 0722
Mercedes Strikes 2nd-Life Battery Pact with Canadian Startup 0722
Tesla Megapacks Are About to Replace Hawaii’s Last Remaining Coal Plant 0622
Puerto Ricans Built the World’s Largest Renewable Peaker Plant. Let’s Use It. 0622
How Ford’s Electric Pickup Can Power Your House for 10 Days 0522
Miracle Fuel Hydrogen Can Actually Make Climate Change Worse 0522 - Leaks. Hydrogen (H2) is tiny. 1st, leaked hydrogen reacts with OH radicals in the air to make H2O, instead of OH reacting with CH4 (methane) to turn it into CO2, a far less intense greenhouse gas. 2md, H2 facilitates formation of ground-level ozone, another potent greemhouse gas. 3rd, H2 leads to more water vapor, another important greenhouse gas, in the stratosphere.
Up to 5.9 GW of Battery Storage in Duke Energy’s Carolinas Carbon Cuts Plan 0522
Tesla Maintains 2030 Target of 1,500 GWh Annual Energy Storage Deployment 0522
These Batteries Work from Home 0522
California’s All-Renewable Moment Shows the Future of the Power Grid 0522
Instant Long Duration Energy Storage - Just Add CO2 0422
Battery Storage Load Shifts 6 GWh a Day on CAISO Grid; State of Charge Prices 0422
U.S. Earmarks $504 Million to Back World’s Largest Hydrogen Hub 0422
Battery Storage Costs Rise More than 20% in New York, as It Pursues 6 GW Goal 0422
U.S. Grid-Scale Storage Installations Tripled to a Record 3 GW in 2021 - 0322
Giant Renewables Leap with Capillary Electrolysis to Make Cheap Hydrogen 0322
Saudi Arabia to Start Building Green Hydrogen Plant in Neom 0322
Denmark Takes 1st Steps towards Green Hydrogen Economy 0322
San Antonio Taps Quidnet Energy to Build Big Underground Battery 0322
From Fertilizer to Fuel - Can ‘Green’ Ammonia Be a Climate Fix? 0122
Improving Compressed Air Energy Storage Efficiency via Chemical Reactions 0122
Goldman Sachs’s Record-Setting Investment in Long-Duration Energy Storage 0122
Bi-Directional Vehicle Batteries Will Enable Effective Decentralized Grid 0122
Philippines’ San Miguel to Switch Battery Storage On, as It Pushes Renewables 0122
2021 Articles
US Storage Market Breaks Records with 3.5 GWh of New Deployments in Q3 - 1221
A New CO2 Battery Can Halve the Cost of Solar Energy Storage 1221
S&P Projects Record 71 GW of New US Wind and Solar Installations in 2022 - 1121
Global Energy Storage Set to Nearly Triple in 2021 - Wood Mackenzie Forecast 1021
Iron Battery Breakthrough Could Eat Lithium’s Lunch for Stationary Storage 0921
Major California Battery Outage Highlights Energy Storage Risks 0921
Battery Technology Promises Much Faster Charging than Lithium-Ion Ones 0821 - between batteries and super-capacitors
Battery Storage is on a Growth Spurt That's About to Get Even Bigger 0821
These 3 Energy Storage Technologies Can Help Move Us to 100% Renewables 0821 - long discharge times, , solid electrolytes, storing sunlight as heat, renewable fuels (hydrogen, ammonia)
In California, the World’s Largest Battery Storage System Gets Even Larger 0921
Iron-Air Batteries - Huge Green-Energy Breakthrough, or Just a Lot of Hype? 0721
DOE Initiative Seeks to Drop Long-Duration Storage Cost 90% in a Decade 0721
Texas Adding Energy Storage Ahead of Risky Summer Months - S&P Analysis 0621
Connecticut Legislators Set 1 GW Energy Storage Target for End of 2030 - 0621
PG&E, BMW Smart-Charging Pilot Highlights Electric Vehicles as Grid Resource 0621
Could Ultra-Cheap Batteries Provide Lithium-Free Storage for Renewable Grid? 0521 - Split CO2 into C and O2 with surplus power, then recombine when more power is needed.
Move to Net Zero ‘Inevitably Means More Mining’ 0521 - including lithium & cobalt for batteries
Americas Poised to Lead $86 Billion Global Storage Market by 2025 - 0421
Tesla Moves to Only Sell Home Solar and Storage Together 0421
Using Hydrogen to Back Up the Grid 0421
Japan Bets on Hydrogen to Lift Its Ambitious Carbon-Neutral Plans 0421 - fuel power plants, industry, and transport
New Tech Mines Old Batteries for Critical Ingredients for Electric Vehicles 0421
Renewables + Batteries Offer Australia the Same Energy Security as Coal 0321
Storage Deployments Shatter Records - Again - in Q4 2020 - 0321
Will Safer Batteries (LFPs) Finally Take Over the Home Storage Market? 0221 Lithium-Iron-Phosphate batteries are less flammable and don’t use materials are rare as cobalt, but take up more space.
When the Grid Goes Down, Can a Fleet of Batteries Replace It? 0221
Nevada Lithium Mine Kicks Off a New Era of Western Extraction 0221
Northern Norway Battery Maker Plans Giga-Factory, New York Stock Listing 0121
Asian Battery Makers Seize Expansion Opportunity in Europe, U.S. 0121
Why Batteries Are the Key to Biden’s Green Dreams 0121
Connecticut Regulators Want Utilities to Pay Customers to Sync Storage with Demand 0121
Data Centers Are Energy Hogs. Could They Help Power the Grid? 0121
2019-2020 Articles
Hydrolysis Research Breakthrough Could Transform Clean Energy Technology 1220
In Boost for Renewables, Grid-Scale Battery Storage Is on the Rise 1220
The Price of Electric Car Batteries Has Dropped 89% in 10 Years 1220
1,000s of California Homes to Be Linked for 550 MW Virtual Power Plant 1220
US Storage Deployments Shatter Record in Q3; 7.5 GW Projected by 2025 - 1220
Solar + Storage to Become Even Cheaper, but Seasonal Solutions Remain Key 1220
California Wants Its Imperial Valley to Be ‘Lithium Valley’ 1120
‘Super' Power from 100% Solar, Wind and Batteries Will Change the World 1120 (See "Rethinking Energy.... and diagram below.)
Could Green Hydrogen Be Key to a Carbon-Free Economy? 1120
Tesla, with Record Q3 Solar and Storage Deployments, Promises to Reinvent Batteries 1020
Global Storage Heading to 741 GWh (18% of US Use) by 2030 - Wood Mackenzie 1020
Lucid Motors to Challenge Tesla in Residential, Utility-Scale Storage Markets 0920
Energy Storage for EV Charging Stations Can Lower Their Demand Charges 0820
This Cobalt-Free Battery Is Good for the Planet—and It Actually Works 0820
PG&E, Tesla Kick Off Behemoth Battery Energy Storage System 0820
New Mexico Approves 100% Solar + Storage to Replace San Juan Coal Plant 0720
Pumped Energy Storage at Sea Could Enable Full Transition to Renewable Power 0620
Vermont Regulators Approve Groundbreaking Home Energy Storage Programs 0620
Researchers Propose New Diamond Nanostructure for Efficient Energy Storage 0520
Energy Storage Deployments to Increase 7 x between 2019 and 2021 - 0320
GM's New Electric Car Battery Tops Tesla's 0320
US Storage Market Value to Surge 737% by 2024, due Mostly by Utility Projects 1219
Tesla's Australian Virtual Power Plant Propped up Grid during Coal Outage 1219
Battery Prices Fall Nearly 50% in 3 Years, Spurring More Electrification 1219
Salt River Project to Install Arizona's Largest Battery, Help Replace Giant Coal Plant 1119
As Electric Vehicles Age, Batteries Are Finding a 2nd Life 1119
In Search for Cheaper, Longer Energy Storage, Mountain Gravity Could Eventually Top Lithium-Ion 1119
Build a Better Battery for Wind and Solar Storage, and the Energy Sector Will Beat a Path to Your Door 0919 - Lithium-Ion, Solid State, Sodium-Sulfur, low Batteries: characteristics and developments
316 MW Project to Replace Gas Peakers Moves New York toward 3 GW Storage 0919
Los Angeles Approves Solar+Storage Project for under 2¢/kWh 0919 - 400 MegaWatts with 1,200 MWh battery
US Energy Storage Market Up Nearly 45%, 760+ MWh Interconnects in 2018 - 0819
Global Storage Deployments to Hit 2,850 GWh by 2040, Rising 122-Fold 0819
PNM Proposes Gas, Solar+Storage Mix as Cheapest Option to Replace San Juan Coal Plant 0719
Liquid-Air Storage Offers Cheapest Route to 24-Hour Wind and Solar 0719
Can Batteries Help Smooth Demand, Lower Utility Fees for EV Fast Chargers? 0619
Race for Potassium Batteries Heats Up 0519
New Thermal Battery Could Be a 'Game Changer' for Storing Renewable Energy 0419
Electricity Costs from Battery Storage down 76% since 2012- BNEF 0319
Rocky Mountain Power’s 600 Batteries for Apartments, EV Charging Hub, More 0319
Utilities ‘Driving’ US Solar-Storage Growth 0319
US Energy Storage Broke Records in 2018, but the Best Is Yet to Come 0319
Arizona Public Service to Install 850 MW of Storage, 100 MW of Solar 0219
Puerto Rico Energy Plan Calls For Huge Solar And Storage Investments 0219
In Lab Secrets, Tesla Is Talking about 20-Year Lithium Ion Batteries 0919
For combustion turbine ¢/kWh, divide $/kW-mo by 20 hours/mo? For battery storage, divide by 40 hours? For ¢/kWh, divide $/MWh by 10.
2018 Articles and earlier
US Storage Market to Reach 3.9 GW, $4.5B by 2023- Wood Mackenzie 1218
Storage from World's Largest Batteries Will Replace 3 PG&E Gas Plants 1118
Massachusetts Deploys Utility-Scale Flow Battery Energy Storage 0918
Lithium-ion Battery Deployments to Increase 800% from 2017 to 2022 - 0818
Scientists Create Battery That Refuels Electric Cars in Seconds 0818
The $3 Billion Plan to Turn Hoover Dam into a Giant Battery 0718 - giant pumped storage project
Study Quantifies Battery-Electric Bus Environmental Benefits 0718
New Battery Could Store Wind, Solar Electricity Affordably at Room Temperature 0718
Big Batteries at Data Centers Could Replace Power Plants 0718
PG&E to Replace 3 Gas Plants with World's Biggest Battery Projects 0718
New Cathode Material Can Triple Lithium-ion Battery Energy Density 0618
Musk Says Tesla Can Get Li-Ion Battery Cell Prices below $100/kWh This Year 0618
Highview Power Completes UK Plant to Test ‘Liquid Air’ Storage Technology 0618
Tesla Has Installed a Truly Huge Amount of Energy Storage 0618
Electric School Buses Can Be Backup Batteries For the US Power Grid 0518
South Australia's Grid Service Costs Slashed 90% by Tesla Battery 0518
Battery Energy Storage on Verge of Competing with Natural Gas Peakers 0518
New Manganese Battery Could Serve the Grid 0518
New Lithium-Air Battery Lasts 100s of Cycles Longer than Past Designs 0318
Nearly 1/3 of Planned Gas Peakers at Risk from Energy Storage 0318
The U.S. Just Hit a Major Energy Storage Milestone, in Great News for Solar 0318
Rechargeable Battery Weathers Extreme Cold Conditions 0318 - organic electrolyte doesn’t get more viscous till almost -84°C
Electric Vehicles Benefit More than Just Their Owners 0318 - sorage for grid to even out demand and when sun doesn’t shine and wind doesn’t blow
Battery Storage Could Boost Coal Consumption 0218 - in coal country
US Storage Market Could Reach 50 GW if Costs Keep Falling - Brattle 0218
Batteries Will Boost Yearly Solar Plant Output by 500 MWh, FPL Says 0218
APS to Install 50 MW, 135 MWh Solar-Shifting Battery 0218
Electric Cars Could Destroy the Electric Grid – or Fix It Forever 0218 - dangers of overloading substations
Car ‘Batteries on Wheels' Could Help Solve Renewable Energy's Storage Issue 0118
Solid State Magnesium Electrolyte Tested for Holy Grail of Battery Storage 1217
Electric Cars and Energy Storage Seen Arriving Early Next Decade 1117
Tesla Wins 100-Day Bet to Build 129 MWh Battery in Australia 1117
MIT Reveals a Battery That Stores Solar Energy to Make Heat for Later 1117
Energy Storage Could Hit 35 GW by 2025, New White Paper Says 1117
Using the Ocean for Future Energy Storage 1017 - pump up, fall down; compress air
Vestas, Windlab to Launch World's 1st Wind-Solar-Storage Project in Australia 1017
Tight Lithium Market Likely to Ease Up in Near Term, BNEF Says 1017
Cheap Sodium Salt Battery Could Shake Up Grid Storage 1017
Storms Spur $22 Billion Investment in Battery-Backed Grids 1017
Electric Car Owners ‘Can Drive for Free by Letting Energy Firms Use Battery' 1017
Pumped Hydro Storage ‘Could Make Australia Run on Renewable Energy Alone within 20 Years' 0917
Behind-the-Meter Storage Has Record Quarter - GTM-ESA 0917
Future of Electrical Energy Storage Solutions Holds No Lithium Supremacy 0917
Researchers to Revive 3,500-Year-Old Technology, Firebricks, for Energy Storage 0917
Silicon Fires Up Renewable Energy Revolution 0917 - storage in silicon
Tesla, Vestas Pair Up to Develop Ways to Combine Storage and Wind 0917
Big Energy Backs Hydrogen Power Storage 0917
Giant Batteries Help Renewable Energy Grow In New England 0917
After Electric Cars, What More Will It Take for Batteries to Change the Face of Energy? 0817
Alphabet [Google] Turns to Molten Salt to Store Clean Energy 0817
Tesla Batteries May Back Up Wind Farm Off Massachusetts Coast 0717
Australia Needs Tesla Battery to Prevent Summer Blackouts, Regulator Says 0717
States Betting on Giant Batteries to Cut Carbon 0617
China Is About to Bury Elon Musk in Batteries 0617
BMW Tests Electric Cars as Power Grid Stabilizers 0617
Tucson Electric Signs Solar + Storage PPA for ‘Less than 4.5¢/kWh’ 0517
Europe Is Building Its Own Battery Gigafactories 0517
Tesla, Green Mountain Power Roll Out $15/Month BTM Battery Program 0517
Storage, Renewables Could Replace New York's Indian Point Nuke 0517
Energy Storage - Weight Tips the Scales in America's Favor 0417
South Australia to Get $1 Billion Solar Farm and World's Biggest Battery 0317
“100% Renewable Energy” Will Require Nukes, CCS and/or Seasonal Storage 0317
Compact, Efficient System Stores Solar Energy in Liquids 0317
Kauai, Hawaiian island, Gets Renewable Energy Boost, Thanks to Tesla 0317
SDG&E, AES Start Up World's Largest Lithium Ion Battery Storage in California 0217
Age of the Giant Battery Is Almost Upon Us 0217 - long-term agreements now
Aluminum Battery with Urea Electrolyte Could Yield Low-Cost Energy Storage 0217
Tesla Moves beyond Electric Cars with New California Battery Farm 0117
Energy Storage Will Increase 40-fold in Developing Countries 0117
Why Surging Lithium Prices Haven't Stopped Falling Battery Energy Storage Costs 0117
Rise of Renewables Leads to Need for More Energy Storage Space 0117
Novel Liquid Battery Could Hold Potential for Unlimited Energy Storage 0117
Cryogenic Storage Offers Hope for Renewable Energy 1216
California Utility Regulators Are Turning Electric Vehicles into Grid Resources 1116
UK’s National Grid to Add 201 MW of Fast-Acting Batteries for Energy Storage 0816
Zinc-Ion Batteries Cut Costs for Grid Energy Storage 0816
Texas Startup's Big Energy Idea - Storing Electricity Underground 0816 - pressurize water into old oil wells, later release it
The New Green Grid - Utilities Deploy ‘Virtual Power Plants’ 0816
Tesla and SolarCity Boards Approve Acquisition 0816
New Lithium-Oxygen Battery Greatly Improves Energy Efficiency, Longevity 0716
Energy Storage System Combines Ultra-Capacitors with Batteries 0716
Australian Company Creates Hydrogen with Near-Zero Emissions 0716
MIT Researchers See a ‘Window of Opportunity' for Non-Battery Storage 0716 It will close within a few years.
Lithium-Ion Battery Prices Down 70%, Opening Up Storage Market Opportunities 0616
How Utilities Can Gain from the Coming Boom in Electric Vehicles 0616 - Use vehicles as grid storage and balancing.
Falling Cost of Solar and Wind Could Limit Energy Storage Profitability 0616
Energy Storage Market to Equal Rooftop Solar by 2028 - 0616
Why the Tesla Boom Could Be Very Good News for the Electric Grid 0616
The World Nears Peak Fossil Fuels for Electricity 0616 - Storage enables more renewables.
Tesla’s July 29 Gigafactory Grand Opening Date Is a Milestone 0516
Powerwall batteries are built there now. Ones for Model 3 sedan will be built there later.
Duke Rolls Out Long + Short Duration Hybrid Battery Storage System 0316
After Record Year, U.S. Energy Storage Forecast to Exceed 1 GW in 2019 - 0316
Your Home Water Heater May Soon Double as a Battery 0216
SolarCity’s Kaua’i Solar Plus Storage Project to Use Tesla Batteries 0216
By Fighting Rooftop Solar, Utilities Set Themselves Up for Worse to Come 0216 - Storage enables going fully off-grid.
Revenue for Utility-Scale Battery Storage to Grow 15 x by 2025 - 0116
Storage Market for Solar Systems to Hit $8 Billion by 2026 - 0116
Energy Storage Developer Orison Unveils Plug-and-Play Residential Storage 0116 - 40 pounds, 2.2 kWh for $2,000
Tesla Shifts Production to its Gigafactory, to Accommodate Powerwall Demand 0116
Technical Advances Drive Flow Batteries Closer to Mass Commercialization 0116
One Step Closer to Turning Water into Hydrogen Fuel, Affordably 0116
More than MegaWatts - New Metrics Reveal Energy Storage's Potential 1215
AES’ Huge (1 GWh) Deal Shows that the Battery Revolution Has Arrived 1215
Home Solar Battery Revolution an Economic and Emissions Game Changer 1215
Vermont Utility Teams with Tesla to Offer Home Battery Installment Plan 1215
PG&E Contracts for 75 MW of Energy Storage, on Its Way to 580 MW of Storage Capacity 1215
Solar Company Making a Profit from Poor Africans 1215 - $35 upfront + 45¢/day. That's < the 75¢ / day cost of energy (60% kerosene) it replaces. The kit includes a PV panel, a battery, 2 LED light bulbs, an LED flashlight, a cell phone charger & a rechargeable radio. When the day’s 45¢ payment is made, a SIM card activates the battery.
Grid-Scale Lithium-Ion Battery Storage Prices Will Fall 50% by 2019 - 1115
Tesla Competitor Sonnenbatterie Unveils Community Solar-Storage System 1115
NRG Is Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Integration 1215
California Water Agency to Use Tesla Battery to Slash Peak Demand up to 14% - 1115
Kotzebue, Alaska Turns to Cold-Weather Battery Micro-Grid as Diesel Alternative 1115
This Could Be the Biggest Sign Yet That the Battery Revolution Is Here 1115
New Batteries Make Rapid Progress, but Market Expectations Move Faster 1015
Even after Dark, Vast Spanish Solar Plant Harnesses Sun's Power 1015
Want a Solar-Powered Home? Here's a New Battery That Won't Ignite 0915
Hydrogen Economy Is Emerging from Excess Wind Power in Germany 0915
Spurred by Innovators like Tesla, the Energy Storage Business Is Growing Fast 0915
Massachusetts Tackles Holy Grail of Energy Storage 0715
Battery Revolution Will Let Us All Be Power Brokers 0715
Siemens to Open Plant to Turn Electricity from Wind into Hydrogen 0715
G.M. and Nissan Are Reusing Old Electric Car Batteries 0615
Tesla Partners With Battery Researcher to Lower Costs 0615
Energy Storage Battery Sales Take Off, to Smooth Power Demand on Grid 0515
Tesla's Battery Grabbed $800 Million in Its First Week 0515
Tesla Makes Itself the Center of the Energy-Storage Universe 0515
Tesla Ventures into Solar Power Storage for Home and Business 0515
Grid-Scale Batteries Make Rapid Inroads to Support Europe’s Power Grid 0415
Tesla’s Next Big Idea - Storing Power 0415
The Way We Power Our Homes May Be on the Verge of a Major Change 0415
Bendy Battery Promises Safe, Speedy Charging 0415 - Aluminum could replace lithium.
Solar Power, and Somewhere to Store It 0315
Waste-to-Energy Revolution Boosted by Bio-Battery Idea 0315
Tesla Home Battery Could Be in Production in 6 Months 0215
Super-Capacitor Makers Charge Ahead 0215
9 Reasons Not to Be Depressed about the Planet 0115
Cambridge Company’s Battery May Give Grid a Boost 1214
Energy Storage Plans Gain Ground in California 1214
Texas Law May Short-Circuit an Advance in Storing Electricity 1214 Transmission company can’t sell electricity wholesale.
Smooth Operators - Grid-Scale Storage 1214
Why Elon Musk's Batteries Scare the Hell Out of the Electric Company 1214
New York City Tries to Cram in Some Energy Storage 1114
Power Storage Group Alevo Plans $1 Billion US Battery Plant 1014
Innovations in Energy Storage Provide Boost for Renewables 1014
Electric Cars Have Batteries. Why Not Power Plants? 1014
Is There a Successful Energy Storage Technology on the Horizon? 1014
Energy for a Rainy Day, or a Windless One 1014
How Lithium Battery Storage Costs Could Plunge Below $100/kWh - 1014
Giant Underground Reservoir Keeps Downtown Helsinki Air Conditioner- Free 1014
Storing Renewable Energy in a Thousand Basements 0914
New Face of Electricity - Large Scale Storage 0814
Stanford Researchers Claim Major Breakthrough in Lithium Battery Design 0714
Why Australian Households Are Desperate for Battery Storage 0714
Elon Musk Sees Nearly Unlimited Demand for Energy Storage 0514
Is This Flow Battery the Big Breakthrough for Renewable Energy? 0114
The Battery Storage System That Could Close Down Coal Power 1113
Battery-Stored Solar Power Sparks Backlash From Utilities 1013
California Adopts Nation’s 1st Energy Storage Plan 1013
Green-Energy Storage - The Next Big Thing 0913
Super-Capacitors Amp Up as an Alternative to Batteries 0813
Waste CO2 as Power Source, New Super-Capacitor & Hydrogen from Sunlight 0813
California Aims to 'Bottle Sunlight' in Energy Storage Push 0813
NH Firm Makes ‘Battery’ Out of Air, to Power Hundreds of Homes 0913
Finn Researchers Make Cheap Biofuel, US Ones Pull Hydrogen from Water 0813
Battery Seen as Way to Cut Heat-Related Power Losses 0713
Wood is Key Ingredient in Cheap Rechargeable Battery 0613
Better Batteries That Can Revolutionize Solar, Wind Power 0513
Process to Make Hydrogen to Make Renewable Energy Reliable 0313
Flow Batteries Could Back Up Future Grid 0313
Advanced Electricity Storage Overview 0910 - PDF
Lithium-Air (Rechargeable?) Makes for Cheaper, Lighter Car Batteries 0610 - Li-ion stores maximum of 110 Watt-hr / lb
Race to Develop Large Scale Storage 0909
Cheap H2O Split for Solar Storage 0808
Massachusetts Is Staring Down a Duck Curve of Its Own. Storage Could Help. 0418
parallels to California; negative ¢/kWh
The top graph shows how a remote storage system works, as it is linked to renewable power generation. The purple area is the key. When it is above the line, it is charging from excess wind and solar generation, when it is below the line, it is discharging to make up for the lack of renewables.
Notice in the bottom graph how it smooths out the frequency issues for the local grid, which should operate at or close to 50 hertz. The load, in gray, changes little from minute to minute.
http://reneweconomy.com.au/2013/the-battery-storage-system-that-could-close-down-coal-power-38259 - from Bloomberg New Energy Finance in late 2016
Graph at bottom is from Bloomberg New Energy Finance, New Energy Outlook, June 2016
Section Map: Energy Use