Energy saving

Gates, Bezos Backing Alphabet Energy Storage Spinoff

Thursday, 20 December 2018 Dan McCue American billionaires Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg and Jeff Bezos are among the investors backing an innovative energy storage solution spun off from Alphabet Inc.'s secretive X "Moonshot" factory. ...

“Sun in a Box” Would Store Renewable Energy for the Grid

Monday, 10 December 2018 Dan McCue Engineers at MIT have come up with a conceptual design for a system to store renewable energy, such as solar and wind power, and deliver that energy back into an electric grid on demand. The system may ...

NREL Awarded $2.8M from ARPA-E to Develop Low-Cost Thermal Energy Storage

Tuesday, 27 November 2018 REM The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory has been awarded nearly $2.8 million in funding from DOE's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to develop a system for ...

Energy Vault Announces Transformative Utility-Scale Energy Storage Technology

Tuesday, 13 November 2018 Dan McCue Energy Vault, an Idealab company, has unveiled its groundbreaking energy storage solution. Based on the principles that underpin traditional gravity-based pumped hydro plants, the new technology combines ...

Highview Power shortlisted for 2018 Green Energy and IET Innovation Awards

Wednesday, 31 October 2018 Robin Whitlock Highview Power, a company specialising in long-duration energy storage technology, has announced it has been named as a finalist for the Green Energy Awards in the clean energy innovation category and ...

Carbon Lighthouse and Generate Capital close $65 million financing for commercial energy efficiency projects

Thursday, 25 October 2018 Robin Whitlock Clean energy services company Carbon Lighthouse and financier, owner and operator of distributed energy and resource infrastructure Generate Capital, have announced the close of a $65 million project finance ...

Enel and EnergyNest Explore Thermal Energy Storage Opportunities

Monday, 22 October 2018 REM

Norway-based cleantech company, EnergyNest, is partnering with Italy’s Enel, to analyze the benefits and impacts of the integration of its technology into one of Enel’s power generation assets.

Ingeteam Hybrid Inverter Now Compatible with Freedom Won High Voltage Batteries

Wednesday, 17 October 2018 REM

South African company, Freedom Won, an energy storage system manufacturer, has approved the use of its Freedom Lite HV battery with the Ingeteam INGECON® SUN STORAGE 1Play hybrid inverter.

All UK homes must be renovated to meet climate targets finds new report

Friday, 12 October 2018 Robin Whitlock The UK cannot build its way to a low-carbon future without retrofitting the UK’s old, cold homes to meet 2050 climate targets, a new report from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and ...

Switzerland

New battery company launched to commercialise innovative battery technology platform

Wednesday, 10 October 2018 Robin Whitlock Swiss battery technology company Innolith AG has been launched to commercialise an innovative battery technology platform that will help to stabilise electricity grids against blackouts and support integration ...