Energy Storage Update 5/6

Energy Storage: Testing Zinc-Air Grid Batteries Energy Collective Eos Energy Storage, the startup that says its zinc-air battery chemistry can provide grid-scale energy storage at unprecedentedly low costs, has just landed its first utility pilot partner to test it out. That's Consolidated Edison, which announced ...http://theenergycollective.com/jeffstjohn/220541/energy-storage-zinc-air-grid-batteries-test
GE Adds Energy Storage to Its Brilliant Wind Turbine Greentech Media After premiering its 2.5-megawatt, 120-meter rotor Brilliant wind turbine in February, GE is now announcing the commercial installation of the first three models that will integrate energy storage capability. GE's (NYSE:GE) engineering advances have ...http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/GE-Adds-Energy-Storage-To-Its-Brilliant-Wind-Turbine Greentech Media
MaRS Cleantech Fund invests in Hydrostor's game-changing energy storage ... Sacramento Bee TORONTO, May 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - The MaRS Cleantech Fund is pleased to announce the completion of a venture deal with Toronto energy storage firm Hydrostor. Hydrostor's technology converts surplus electrical energy to underwater compressed air ...http://www.sacbee.com/2013/05/06/5398186/mars-cleantech-fund-invests-in.html
Methanation of CO2: Storage of Renewable Energy in a Gas Distribution System POWER magazine The ideal energy system of the future would be able to provide a constant supply of electricity based on renewable resources, without usage restrictions for the consumer. Unfortunately, many renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar, can only ...http://www.powermag.com/gas/gas_power_direct/Methanation-of-CO2-Storage-of-Renewable-Energy-in-a-Gas-Distribution-System_5578.html
Graph of the Day: Untapped potential of energy storage RenewEconomy These graphs of the day come courtesy of our friends from Cleantechnica. It comes from an article about a new developer of energy storage devices, Eos Energy, that claims it can deliver stored energy for as cheap as $160/kWh, which would be something a ...http://reneweconomy.com.au/2013/graph-of-the-day-untapped-potential-of-energy-storage-64650
Grid Storage A123's Grid-Scale Storage Business Lives On Greentech Media But a quarter of the company's revenues last year came from the megawatt-sized grid energy storage systems it's installed with partners like AES and utilities across the world. Monday brings news that Wanxiang intends to keep that grid battery business ...http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/a123s-grid-scale-storage-business-lives-on
Enstorage Pioneers 50kW Hydrogen Bromine Storage in Israel Green Prophet enstorage 50KW demonstrator HBr battery storage Energy storage company Enstorage Inc. connected a 50 kW Hydrogen Bromine flow battery to the grid at their test site in southern Israel. This began the world's first large-scale deployment of this ...http://www.greenprophet.com/2013/05/enstorage-pioneers-50kw-hydrogen-bromine-storage-in-israel/ Green Prophet
A123 Systems LLC introduces A123 Energy Solutions - Nanowerk Nanowerk LLC This new division, headquartered in Westborough Massachusetts, will continue to design, develop, and manufacture advanced lithium ion energy storage systems ranging from small industrial batteries to multi-megawatt grid-scale energy storage systems.http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/green/newsid=30361.php
City of Naperville and Verde Energy USA Successfully Install IceBear ... Chicago Tribune The IceBearTM clean energy storage system, installed at no cost to Naperville, allows the City to more efficiently and effectively utilize air conditioning and upgrades aging infrastructure at this location. “This technology allows us to conserve ...http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/suburbs/naperville_lisle/community/chi-ugc-article-city-of-naperville-and-verde-energy-usa-succe-2013-05-06,0,966113.story
Brand Reborn: A123 Energy Solutions Renew Grid A123 Systems LLC says its businesses that are focused on batteries and energy storage solutions for power grid and related applications now fall under a new brand, A123 Energy Solutions. The new division, which is headquartered in Westborough Mass., ...http://www.renewgridmag.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.9850	ZBB Energy to Participate on Panel at AGRION Energy ... - Marketwire MILWAUKEE, WI--(Marketwired - May 1, 2013) - ZBB Energy Corporation (NYSE MKT: ZBB), a leading developer of intelligent, renewable energy power ... www.marketwire.com/.../zbb-energy-participate-on-panel-agri...