Grab the ‘golden opportunity’ to go green: UK urged to ditch nuclear in favour of renewables
The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has urged the government to take up the “golden opportunity” to go green and ditch its nuclear vision in favour of cheaper renewables.The recommendation comes within the UK’s first ever National Infrastructure Assessment, in effect
Home storage sales rocket
Australia’s energy and environment minister has hailed the country’s accelerating residential energy storage sales as a report has emerged from Chief Scientist Dr Alan Finkel which says the “financial equation is straightforward” for adding batteries to home PV systems.Finkel’s office
What drove 2017’s record-breaking Storage deployment figures?
Clean energy news coverage often focuses on the successes and big strides taken forward by the industry in ‘record-breaking terms’: “world’s biggest battery,” “first hybrid to combine storage with x” and so on.
UK’s ‘largest’ battery storage facility completed
A battery storage facility claimed to be the largest in the UK has been completed.It has a total capacity of 49.9MW and is located at Stocking Pelham near the town of Bishop’s Stortford, according to developer BSR EPC.
What’s New In Solar Energy Research In 2018?
Before I answer the main question, let me set the stage as a background to understand the trends. Solar energy is such a vast energy resource that it can be used for any of our everyday needs, including electrical power,
NEW REPORT PREDICTS RISE OF RENEWABLES & DEATH OF COAL
Each year, Bloomberg New Energy Finance peers far into the future to predict the trends that will shape energy markets in the years to come. Its New Energy Outlook 2018 report has just been released, and it sees demand for
Europe’s battery storage market charged up by 49% in 2017
This followed a trend of steady growth since 2015 and brought the continent to a total storage capacity of 589MWh
40% off batteries for farmers
The deadline of 3rd December is approaching for submitting your grant application to receive up to £1,000,000 grant funding to support a battery storage system that increases farm productivity. Now is the perfect time to develop a proposal that improves
Stationary storage will follow EVs in gaining public confidence
BYD has just opened a gigawatt-scale lithium battery factory in Qinghai Province, a few days after a senior company representative told Energy-Storage.news that, like electric vehicles (EVs), it is only a matter of time before lithium batteries for stationary storage