Battery storage

Arizona Public Service, the state's largest utility, has released its plan for reaching zero-carbon by 2050, including several options to balance the costs and benefits of switching from coal and natural gas to renewables,…

Green hydrogen may get all the headlines, but the prospect of it fueling Europe's future hydrogen economy on its own looks increasingly questionable.Blue hydrogen is produced from natural gas, with carbon capture and storage (CCS)…

Portland General Electric, the largest utility in Oregon, is jumping into the cutting-edge business of turning home batteries into grid resources. The company announced this week that it has received approval from regulators to link up 525…

Two industrial-scale lithium-ion batteries are being sold on the Australian market via a “Dutch auction,” with the asking price starting at $A335,000 and falling by $5,000 per workday. Australian management consultancy New Energy Ventures…

Thousands of Western Australian solar households may be set for a surprise as contracts signed for premium feed-in-tariffs ten years ago start to come to an end. Western Australian households which had solar installed between 1 July 2010…

In 2019, IKEA invested $2.8 billion in green energy, which contributed to the 1 million solar panels it was able to install on 370 store and warehouse locations worldwide, as well as to the power contracts the company was able to negotiate…

Global power company AES was building large batteries a decade before the market really took off. “We have more experience, for more time, and we have a bigger volume than anybody,” AES President and CEO Andrés Gluski told Greentech…

Battery costs have been coming down dramatically in recent years with many people waiting for the “right price”. Bloomberg New Energy Finance reported last year that battery prices have dropped 76% since 2012. But the range of battery…

As the UK’s National Grid approaches its centenary, it has just achieved its first two consecutive months without burning any coal. Indeed, the shift away from fossil fuels is revolutionizing our energy systems from top to…

Transportation accounts for nearly 70 percent of U.S. oil consumption and 28 percent of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions, making it a prime target for technological improvements that can reduce emissions and combat climate change.…