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

Operational arrangement to provide frequency regulation to ISOs across the United States Alevo Group, a leading Energy Storage Provider, today announced that it has signed a joint operational agreement with Customized Energy Solutions (CES), a leading energy services company, to provide 200MW of Gr... Read more

LG Chem will provide batteries to the largest commercial ESS business in Japan where the secondary battery technology was originated. As LG Chem announced on the 15th, it has received an order from the Green Power Development Corporation (GPD) of Japan for lithium-ion secondary batteries for ESS bus... Read more

Flow batteries for forklifts, new proton exchange membranes and sodium-ion cathode structures, and other potential breakthroughsThe Department of Energy’s ARPA-E program was created to give “blue-sky” research projects the money they need to prove whether or not they’re ready for commercia... Read more

India is looking to smart grid infrastructure to help tackle an out-of-control electricity theft problem and improve reliability. Theft costs the Indian power sector $16.2bn per year. India's government has already committed billions of dollars in funding for smart grid infrastructure and cumula... Read more

The Interstate Renewable Energy Council has released a timely report addressing the many issues of managing infrastructure of a modern electric grid. The lead paragraph from the Executive Summary of “Easing the Transition to a More Distributed Electricity System” quite clearly establishes the i... Read more

Tesla Motors Inc., best known for making the all-electric Model S sedan, is using its lithium-ion battery technology to position itself as a frontrunner in the emerging energy-storage market that supplements and may ultimately threaten the traditional electric grid. “We are going to unveil the Te... Read more

Loan talks still at an early stage with figure of $500 million apparently discussed.Discussions have taken place between the World Bank and the Power Grid Corporation of India regarding financial support.The Economic Times reports an anonymous source close to the grid company. That source says that ... Read more

The UK’s minister for energy has said that her government is not planning any framework of incentives for energy storage, but said nonetheless that public funds can help “bridge the gap” between ideas and commercialisation. Amber Rudd, a minister at the Department for Energy and Climate Cha... Read more

The renewable energy sector has faced funding challenges in the past due to paucity of funds and the high cost of capital, say analysts. Photo: Welspun Renewables Energy Pvt. Ltd (WREPL), a renewable energy company with solar and wind power generation projects, has initiated discussions with i... Read more

Makers of microgrid controllers and voltage optimization partner to expand grid-edge capabilities Microgrids could be a very useful tool for integrating distributed energy resources such as solar PV, backup generators, behind-the-meter batteries and other grid-edge technologies. But to share those ... Read more