Energy Storage - Batteries and Grid
- Elon Musk, Tesla, SolarCity... venturing a full-spectrum of alternatives to fossil energy
Energy Innovation: Shift Away from Fossil Fuels to Renewables
Transformative Eco-nomics
The $5 Billion Dollar Race to Build a Better Battery
- Young companies staked by big backers are challenging fossil fuels with new ways to hold sun and wind power in the $50 billion energy storage market
'Holy Grail' of Battery Storage?
US Government: We've Found the 'Holy Grail' of Grid-Scale Battery Tech
- At the ARPA-E conference, Washington DC: On the hunt for technologies to surpass today's lithium-ion batteries used in smartphones, electric vehicles and multiple uses across the economy.
- One project is exploring an all-iron flow battery to store renewable energy efficiently for later reuse on the grid.
- ARPA-E has also backed a Stanford University project that is working on an all-electron battery, which stores energy by moving electrons rather than ions and employs a different structural design that it says could boost the amount of energy the battery can store and reduce degradation. It's targeting the electrical vehicle market.
- MIT has also been granted $6.9m to develop a 'battery for the neighbourhood' that contains liquid-metal electrodes and a molten-salt electrolyte.
- "Because metals and salt don't mix, these three liquids of different densities naturally separate into layers, eliminating the need for a solid separator. This efficient design significantly reduces packaging materials, which reduces cost and allows more space for storing energy than conventional batteries offer," MIT notes.
- Yet another battery project that has gained $5.4m in funding comes from PolyPlus, which is developing a lithium-air battery, which it says can store nearly seven times as much energy as lithium-ion batteries.
- It envisages its battery will allow electric vehicles to travel 500 miles on a single charge that would cost less than $10.
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Mission Innovation -- Launched in December 2015 -- http://www.mission-innovation.net
'Mission-Innovation' Energy Coalition: Includes Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and Virgin Group head Richard Branson
Breakthrough Energy Coalition -- http://www.breakthroughenergycoalition.com/en/index.html
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"The Future of Energy Summit -- 2016 / New York City, London, Shanghai"
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New & Notable Energy Storage Products
http://www.aquionenergy.com/products/energy-storage-battery
http://www.aquionenergy.com/how-buy
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Grid-scale Energy-Battery Technology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_storage
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_energy_storage
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Grid-Scale-Energy-Storage-4-Ways-to-Grow-in-2014
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The Grid-Scale Energy Market
Implications for Renewable Energy
The future of renewable energy, primarily wind and solar, is intertwined with the development and deployment of energy storage technologies.
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"Global installed energy storage for grid and ancillary applications is to grow from 538 MW in 2014 to 21 GW in 2024, with revenue from energy storage set to increase from $675 million in 2014 to $15.6 billion in 2024. Worldwide revenue accrued from this market to skyrocket to $15.6 Billion"
-- http://www.grid-energy-storage.com/
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NEW YORK, Jan. 7, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- This BCC Research report assesses and describes the current status and assess the potential growth of the worldwide grid scale battery storage (GSBS) technology industry and the market for associated storage technologies. Includes forecast from 2015 to 2025.
Use this report to:
Assess market potential for GSBS technologies over a ten-year period from 2015 through 2025. Receive information about the regional characteristics of the grid-scale battery storage (GSBS) market.
Analyze existing GSBS technologies and promising emerging battery technologies and applications that are under development.
Gain insight into the regulatory aspects of the GSBS market.
Highlights
The global market for grid-scale battery storage (GSBS) technologies reached $637 million in 2014. This market is projected to reach nearly $4.0 billion in 2025 from $716 million in 2015 at a compound annual growth rate of 18.7% for the period 2015-2025.
Lithium-ion battery storage technology will grow from $257 million in 2015 to nearly $1.9 billion in 2025 at a CAGR of 21.9% for the period 2015-2025.
Flow batteries storage technology will grow from $115 million in 2015 to $773 million in 2025 at a CAGR of 21.0% for the period 2015-2025.
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Energy Storage / Grid Scale News
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Elon Musk & Tesla News
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At the Paris Climate Summit, Paris, December 2015
- "Mission Innovation/Breakthrough Energy Coalition"
http://mission-innovation.net/
http://mission-innovation.net/statement/
http://www.breakthroughenergycoalition.com/en/index.html
Via the Washington Post -- Bill Gates on climate change: 'We need to move faster than the energy sector ever has.'
The first goal of the Mission Innovation green initiative is to double the R&D (research and development) budget allocated for the renewable energy sector over the next five years.
The second goal represents a coalition of 28 leading private investors from all over the world (including here both Democrats and Republicans from the U.S.), that are committed to invest unprecedented resources needed to bring the clean technologies to the market.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/11/29/announcing-mission-innovation
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