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New Method Allows for Better Planning of Solar Battery Operations

Nano satellites that weigh only a few kilograms orbit the Earth. These miniature computers have solar-powered batteries as their pivotal point.

16 Mar 2017

ViZn Selected to Provide 200 kW Flow Battery in Central America

ViZn Energy Systems Inc. (ViZn), a leading provider of energy storage systems for utility, commercial and industrial (C&I), and microgrid applications, has been selected to provide a 200kW (four hour) flow battery in Central America.

16 Mar 2017

New Method to Improve Lithium-Sulfur Batteries for Electric Transport and Smart Grid Uses

Most of today’s portable electronics including cell phones, laptops, tablets, smart watches, and fitness trackers are powered by rechargeable lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries. However, their energy density - the quantity of energy stored within a given quantity of physical space, or mass - will have to be enhanced for these batteries to be extensively used in electric transport and smart grid applications.

7 Mar 2017

Scientists Explore Cause Behind Performance Degradation in Operating Sodium-Ion Battery

Sometimes understanding how a problem arises in the first place is key to finding its solution. For a team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, taking this approach led them to the cause of degraded performance in an operating sodium-ion battery.

7 Mar 2017

Sustainable, High Energy Density Battery for Facilitating Widespread Use of Wind and Solar Power

A team of researchers at The City College of New York-based CUNY Energy Institute have developed a novel economical, rechargeable, high energy density battery that will soon facilitate the extensive use of wind and solar power.

3 Mar 2017

Modification of Electrolyte Enhances Lithium-Metal Batteries

Researchers have discovered that adding a tiny bit of something new to the electrolyte in a battery gives energy storage devices more juice per charge than currently used common rechargeable batteries.

2 Mar 2017

New Powerful Hybrid Storage System can Combine Advantages of Supercapacitors and Lithium-Ion Batteries

A battery that can be charged in seconds, has a large capacity and lasts ten to twelve years? Certainly, many have wanted such a thing. Now the FastStorageBW II project – which includes Fraunhofer – is working on making it a reality.

2 Mar 2017

First All-Solid-State Battery Cells Provide Faster-Charging, Safer Rechargeable Batteries

The first all-solid-state battery cells that could to longer-lasting, faster-charging, safer rechargeable batteries for stationary energy storage, electric cars and handheld mobile devices have been developed by a team of engineers headed by John Goodenough, a 94-year-old professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and co-inventor of the lithium-ion battery.

1 Mar 2017

Improved Electrical Batteries for Renewable Energy Storage

Solar utilities need a way to store extra charge for emergencies, as the sun does not shine every day. The case is similar with wind power, as the wind may not always blow.

22 Feb 2017