Powervault to give electric car batteries a second life in smart homes
(REPOST: Internet of Business)
Nissan completes high density battery production line in Sunderland
(REPOST: Clean Energy) The High Energy Density Battery (HEDB) project was one of the winning projects under a competition run in 2015 by the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC), in partnership with government. It set out to invest up to £60 million in collaborative research and development funding to support the development of low carbon, low
Have You Optimised Your Battery Storage?
The process of capturing and reusing solar electricity in your home battery.
Climate change ‘will push European cities towards breaking point’
(REPOST: The Guardian)Major British towns and cities, including Glasgow, Wrexham, Aberdeen and Chester, could be much more severely affected by climate change than previously thought, according to new research.
Energy company promises to pay customers to use electricity
(REPOST: The Guardian)A small energy company has launched a new tariff that will potentially pay customers to use its electricity when demand is low.
Octopus Energy embraces negative pricing with ‘plunge’ tariff
(REPOST: Clean energy News) The Agile Octopus plan offers customers an incentive to shift their energy use outside of the 4pm-7pm peak, with ‘plunge pricing’ being introduced to take advantage of periods when wholesale prices fall below zero as a result of excess generation across the UK.
Valuing Resilience Can Change the Breakeven Point for Solar-Plus-Storage
(REPOST: GTM)Power outages caused by extreme weather events serve as all-too-frequent reminders of the vulnerability of buildings to grid disruptions. But what if building owners accounted for the value of avoided grid outages when deciding whether to invest in projects that could supply uninterruptible power after natural disasters?
UK aggregator Kiwi Power completes 4.8MWh battery in South Wales
(REPOST: Energy Storage News)UK demand response and energy resource aggregation company Kiwi Power has unveiled its largest behind the meter battery to date with the completion of the 4MW / 4.8MWh Tesla battery at Cenin Renewables in south Wales.
Energy Storage Summit: What to expect at the London event
(REPOST: Energy Storage News)Regulators, policymakers, experts, developers, utilities, aggregators and of course, energy storage industry participants will fill out the Victoria Park Plaza in London next week to discuss everything impacting the deployment of energy storage.
South Australia marches on with pumped hydro, PV-plus-storage and commercial microgrid projects
(REPOST: Energy Storage News)Energy storage in the state of South Australia has continued its prolific pace of development with the announcement of two new grid-scale projects and a sizeable commercial and industrial (C&I) installation.