This startup’s solar + storage kit comes in an ‘oil’ barrel
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Italian startup Barrel is packing solar modules, inverters, and battery storage into “oil” barrels – here’s why and how they work.
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Expand Expanding ClosePatio furniture company SunVilla and tech company Suntek have paired up to launch a solar + battery powered storage shed that can charge electric outdoor lawn equipment.
Expand Expanding CloseCalifornia-based Rondo Energy and Thailand’s Siam Cement Group are going to operate the world’s largest battery factory in Thailand.
Expand Expanding CloseCoal-fired Boxberg power station in Eastern Germany will host the first phase of building the largest clean energy hub in Europe.
Expand Expanding CloseThe construction of KORE Power‘s EV battery factory in Arizona is now fast-tracked with a US Department of Energy loan for $850 million.
Expand Expanding CloseIf you live in an apartment with a balcony and want a plug-and-play solar and battery storage system, EcoFlow may have just the solution.
Expand Expanding CloseADS-TEC Energy and JOLT Energy are rolling out battery-buffered, ultra-fast EV chargers in city centers in the US and Europe over the next 18 months.
Expand Expanding CloseKorean lithium-ion battery giant LG Energy Solution (LGES) wants to position itself as a battery storage system provider, so it’s launching a residential battery storage system in the US.
Expand Expanding CloseScientists at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology) in Genoa have successfully created a completely edible, rechargeable battery.
Expand Expanding CloseBattery maker Invinity Energy Systems has been awarded £11 million ($13.7 million) by the British government to build the UK’s largest-ever grid-scale battery storage.
Expand Expanding CloseEnerVenue is going to open a 1 million-square-foot gigafactory in Kentucky to produce ultra long-life metal-hydrogen stationary batteries.
Expand Expanding CloseMichigan-based Our Next Energy (ONE) is going to open a long-duration battery storage factory in West Virginia, next to a 420 MWh solar microgrid.
Expand Expanding CloseSolar energy company Arevon Energy and San Diego Community Power have broken ground on the Vikings Energy Farm, one of the first solar peaker plants in the US.
Expand Expanding ClosePorsche Consulting will design lithium-metal and solid-state battery maker Sakuu’s first 3D-printing gigafactory for commercial production – and Sakuu has now printed its 3D batteries for the first time.
Expand Expanding CloseA hybrid solar + storage facility comprised of 1,300 second-life EV battery packs is fully operational in California.
Expand Expanding CloseAmpd Energy, a pioneer of urban construction battery storage, is powering large tower cranes for global construction giant Laing O’Rourke on a huge project in central London.
Expand Expanding CloseA team at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has developed a utility-scale solar and storage project that can provide power to both AC and DC high-voltage lines, and thus shore up grid stability – here’s how it works.
Expand Expanding CloseNoon Energy, which has developed “ultra-low-cost, high energy density carbon-oxygen battery technology for long-duration energy storage” for solar and wind power, today announced that it’s secured $28 million in Series A financing to commercialize its technology.
Expand Expanding CloseSwell Energy today announced that it has raised $120 million to grow its virtual power plants (VPPs). Virtual power plants allow clean energy to be quickly added to the grid to address frequency and voltage imbalances, local disruptions, and keep the grid stable.
Expand Expanding CloseZero-carbon industrial heat company Rondo Energy has launched two commercial models of its Rondo Heat Battery, which uses electric heating elements, like in a toaster or oven, to turn clean power into high-temperature heat. Rondo says its heat battery is a drop-in replacement for fossil-fired boilers.
Expand Expanding CloseNew clean energy communities are coming to California. Leading homebuilder KB Homes announced Wednesday it has established what it calls the first all-electric, solar-and-battery-powered microgrid community in the golden state.
Expand Expanding CloseIn an interesting plot twist, the same Ford plant used to make vehicle engines is now using the technology that powers EVs to reduce the facility’s carbon footprint.
Expand Expanding CloseMeet Crimson Storage, the world’s largest single-phase battery, which is now live in the California desert.
Expand Expanding CloseThe Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam West Loch Annex just broke ground for the Kūpono Solar Project, a solar-plus-storage system in O‘ahu, Hawai‘i.
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