The leading renewable energy developer expands deeper into emerging markets. In a conference room in midtown Manhattan on Tuesday, large screens glowed bright orange with the SunEdison logo. But the gathering was not a sales pitch for SunEdison, argued the company’s CEO, Ahmad Chatila. “We hop... Read more

One of a Hawaii-based startup accelerator’s 2015 participants, Spider9, has signed a licensing agreement with the major South Korean technology corporation Samsung. Spider9 makes smart controllers that improve the performance of larger battery systems. Spider9’s OSE technology, which is a softwa... Read more

sahi Kasei Corporation has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire Polypore International Inc, a manufacturer of microporous membranes, which currently has two business segments - Energy Storage and Separations Media. In conjunction with this transaction, Polypore has also entered... Read more

Storage will be an important driver of India’s solar market, say analysts. Battery storage is being tapped as a supplement to the $250 million market for off-grid power in India. A report out this month from the London-based Climate Group and the Goldman Sachs Center for Environmental Markets co... Read more

Renewable energy capacity contributes 0.25% to the total installed power capacity of India’s largest power generation company, NTPC Limited. This, however, could change dramatically if the company fulfills the commitment it stated recently. NTPC Limited plans to invest $10 billion to set up 10 ... Read more

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