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Friday, September 21, 2012

Energy storage update

Energy-Storage Companies Partner To Tackle Renewable Energy Integration
North American Windpower
Energy-storage providers Altair Nanotechnologies Inc. and EnerDel Inc. say they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to co-market and cross-sell each other's product portfolios. Each company will now be able to offer a much broader line of ...
NSF awards $1.2 million grant to Clemson professor for energy storage research
Anderson Independent Mail
Clemson University physics professor Apparao Rao has received a $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant to explore the use of carbon nanomaterials for energy storage. “The global push for alternative and renewable energy sources is creating a ...
£20m earmarked for energy storage competitions
edie.net
Government plans to make £20m available for two energy storage competitions could help to deliver payback of £10bn a year, if the findings of an Imperial College London report prove to be workable. Related articles. Government to cut solar support ...

Electricity storage the missing link for renewable energy
Toronto Star
Ontario sometimes has so much surplus power that it pays big customers to use it, because there's no way to set it aside. “We feel energy storage is the missing link,” she told a seminar organized by York University's Sustainable Energy Initiative ...

Hanwha Solar Launches More Energy-Efficient Solar Modules for Solar Rooftop ...
PlanetSave.com
At Solar Power International (SPI) 2012, Hanwha Solar, a leading manufacturer of silicon ingots and photovoltaic panels introduced a new range of solar products specially designed to deliver flexibility with energy storage, better module designs to ...
E.on and Nottingham University team up to design new generation batteries
This is Nottingham
The contract with the university to develop the new energy storage device, known as a supercapattery, is one of three research projects adding up to £1 million that E.on is sponsoring which aim to improve energy storage technologies and energy ...
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Storage build jumps to 67 Bcf as autumn weather arrives
Gas Business Briefing
After well-below-average injections for much of the summer, operators put 67 Bcf of gas into storage last week — just shy of the five-year average — as milder weather put a crimp in demand. Inventories now stand at 3.496 Tcf, the Energy Information ...
Expert to talk about developing market for Holland's lithium-ion batteries
HollandSentinel.com
After talking with Hope faculty and leadership, he'll speak at a public luncheon about a developing potential use for lithium-ion cells, in on-site energy storage units for wind turbines and solar panels. The units are in the testing phase, said Bruce ...
Japan-US developed smart grid goes live in New Mexico
The Japan Daily Press
A $52 million smart grid project focusing on solar power, energy storage, and electric grid management has gone live in Los Alamos, New Mexico, after being co-developed by a consortium of U.S. and Japanese companies. Among the Japanese participants ...

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