Global energy storage market to surge to 15 GW by 2024
Despite a slowdown in price declines, the global energy storage market is set to grow from around 4 GW of…
BASF further invests in e-vehicles batteries in Germany
BASF is announcing a new battery materials production site in Schwarzheide, Germany, as part of its multi-step investment plan to…
New Opel gigafactory in Germany to be largest battery cell producer in Europe
German carmaker Opel, a subsidiary of French PSA, plans to manufacture enough battery cells for half a million e-cars annually…
EV batteries generally outlast the vehicles they’re featured in
A new report from Geotab states that most electric vehicle batteries will only lose an average of 27km of range…
Battery electric cars, friendlier with the environment, says Agora Verkehrswende
Battery electric cars are more climate-friendly over their full lifecycle than both diesel/petrol cars and all other alternative drives, such…
EC approved 3.2 bln. euro state aid for a pan-European battery innovation project
European Commission approved, in accordance with EU State aid rules, a major project of common European interest (IPCEI) jointly notified…
Enel X and Related install New York City’s largest battery storage system
Enel X, the Enel Group’s advanced energy services business line, and Related Companies, a global real estate firm, announced the…
EDP Renewables installs a new energy storage system connected to a photovoltaic power plant
EDP Renewables, a leader in the renewable energy sector and one of the world’s largest wind energy producers, has commissioned…
France and Germany – joint project for the production of batteries for next-generation electric vehicles
Two new-generation battery factories developed under the Franco-German project will be built respectively in France in 2022 and in Germany…
German government says power storage capacity could grow more than 50-fold by 2030
The total power storage capacity available in Germany could grow immensely over the next decade, the German government says. In…
US energy storage market set to almost double this year
The solar-plus-storage combination is super-charging the deployment of batteries across the country and IHS Markit says the U.S. will become…
Renewable energy: Australia bets on a ‘water battery’ – pump hydro plant
It took 100,000 construction workers a quarter of a century to bore through the Snowy Mountains to build Australia’s largest…
Timisoara: Electroputere VFU Pascani, Turkish firm Bozankaya and Polish Pesa filed offers for trams with batteries
Timisoara City Hall received three offers at the auction for the purchase of 40 autonomous trams. These come from Electroputere…
Secoşan, Siemens: We want to increase awareness on power storage
In Romania there is only one MW of storage installed, at a wind power plant in Cobadin, says Cristian Secoșan,…
E-acumulatori.ro solutions to prevent power outages
E-acumulators.ro is the oldest online shop of electrical products on the Romanian market. Concerned about the new smart home concept…
US: Energy storage has a breakout year
2018 may have been the year of residential energy storage, according to a leading analyst, but grid storage was no slouch.…
Electric mobility among the top 10 priorities in EU, besides AI and digital transformation
In an analysis published by the European Parliamentary Research Service, Étienne Bassot sets out the top 10 issues likely to…
Multiple technologies are vying to house temporary surpluses of solar and wind power
A mind-boggling array of energy storage technologies—including batteries the size of an Ikea furniture store and tanks of salt hydrates…
EDP Renewables has launched in Constanta the first energy storage station in Romania
The first energy storage facility in Romania was inaugurated in Constanta on Thursday, September 27, by EDP Renewables. The storage…
Bloom Energy marks success after $270 mln. IPO
Bloom Energy, the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers-backed maker of fuel-cell power systems, climbed on its first day of trading…
World Bank, AIIB allocate $1.2b loan to Turkey for natural gas storage facility
urkey’s ever-growing energy industry continues to draw investments from international institutions. The World Bank and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)…
Bill Gates and his billionaire friends are betting on energy storage
The world needs radical new energy technologies to fight climate change. In 2016, Quartz reported that a group of billionaires—including…