US battery maker Tesla has again been selected to team up with French renewables developer Neoen on another ground-breaking Australian project; this time in Victoria, on the construction of a wind farm and battery storage facility that will help power a major Stawell farming business. The wind and battery project, first flagged in mid-2017, will […]
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Running on renewables transforming transportation through renewable technologies
Worldwide, there were nearly one billion passenger vehicles and 335 million commercial vehicles on the road in 2015. This number has been rising steadily over the past few decades, fueled by rising economic growth around the world. In China alone, more than 21 million passenger cars were sold in 2015, up from only 6 million […]
The New Natural Resources Fueling The Green Revolution
Looking at national and state grids, progress has been extremely impressive. In Costa Rica, for example, renewable energy supplied five million people with all of their electricity needs for a stretch of 300 consecutive days. Meanwhile, the U.K. broke 13 green energy records in 2017 alone, and California’s largest grid operator announced it got 67.2 […]
After electric cars, what more will it take for batteries to change the face of energy?
ABOUT three-quarters of the way along one of the snaking production lines in Nissan’s Sunderland plant, a worker bolts fuel tanks into the chassis of countless Qashqais—the “urban crossover” SUVs which are the bulk of the factory’s output. But every so often something else passes along the line: an electric vehicle called a Leaf. The […]
Energy storage batteries come in all shapes and sizes and potential uses…
One of the most important uses is in demand-charge management, where large energy-intensive customers buy power when electricity is cheap and store it for use at peak times when power is most expensive. For power utilities and grid operators, batteries are being paired with renewables, to smooth out wind and solar farm output and to stabilize the […]
Lithium Discovery Could Improve Battery Performance
A surprising discovery of how lithium moves within individual nanoparticles could lead to batteries that charge faster and last longer for consumer electronics. Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory and several universities have found the concentration of lithium inside individual nanoparticles reverse at a certain point, rather than constantly increasing. “If […]
