GreenTechMedia

JUNE 11, 2020

Energy storage software company Stem will operate a 345-megawatt-hour portfolio of distributed batteries in Southern California Edison utility territory. But it didn’t develop or build these batteries — it’s taking them over from long-time competitor AMS. Managing these batteries isn't a simple task.

Business Energy Monitoring 130

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Charged

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

An EV charging station that uses energy storage based on second-life batteries from Irizar e-mobility is up and running at a Repsol service station in the Spanish city of Tolosa. This 50 kW DC fast charger, developed by Repsol and charging provider Ibil , is said to be the first one in Spain to employ second life-batteries.

Energy Monitor 89

Energy Monitor Batteries Electricity Energy 89

Charged

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Tesla has quietly acquired Ontario-based Hibar Systems, which specializes in battery manufacturing. Hibar Systems was founded in the early 1970s to make small cell batteries, and has since become known in the battery industry for its production automation solutions. Sources: Electric Autonomy Canada , Electrek.

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Batteries Technology Europe Innovation 91

R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Last fall Swedish lithium-ion battery maker Northvolt announced that it had raised $600 million in equity to invest in capacity expansion, research and development, and large-scale recycling. Northvolt made the biggest deal in the battery space in 2020, but it was a huge year overall for the rapidly-growing sector. billion in 2019.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 21, 2020

However, like solar and wind, battery storage’s future growth depends on innovations that go beyond improved technologies and manufacturing-related economies of scale. A close examination of North American battery storage costs led to the launch of Prisma Energy Solutions in 2017. Deconstruction leads to innovation.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

All Phoenix electric school buses, shuttle buses and trucks, from the first-generation vehicles delivered in 2014 to the company’s current-generation vehicles, can now be equipped with V2G capability, enabling fleets to send excess energy back to the grid via Fermata Energy’s FE-20 bidirectional chargers. Source: Fermata Energy

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Charged

MARCH 14, 2024

The brand’s most recognizable EV, the i3 , went on sale in 2014, and was produced until 2022. In Jack Ewing’s view, this strategy “bought the company time to develop expertise in battery technology and to…cope with fluctuations in demand, because it can more easily dial up or down production of different types of cars.”

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Sure, small-scale batteries in homes and businesses can link up and deliver veritable megawatts of capacity. ” So who’s got the biggest battery? ” So who’s got the biggest battery? Even the biggest batteries on the books can’t last long enough to fully replace fossil fueled capacity.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 13, 2020

These are critical data sets for performing energy efficiency audits, calculating the value of rooftop solar or behind-the-meter batteries, and a host of other tasks. Quick access to data that vendors need to custom-design solar and battery installations or efficiency upgrades could make this approach much simpler, Hancock said.

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Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 165

Charged

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Two-wheel icon Harley-Davidson (NYSE: HOG) began developing an electric motorcycle in 2014, and pre-orders for the LiveWire ONE opened in 2019. The Del Mar is based on LiveWire’s new Arrow architecture, which serves as the central component of the motorcycle chassis, and features a proprietary battery, motor, charging and control systems.

Electricity 134

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Charged

MAY 25, 2022

In 2014, the company introduced the first of its British-built electric buses to London, and has since put some 300 EVs on the road. Switch’s Metrocity electric bus sports a 250 kWh NMC battery and a lightweight monocoque platform.

Energy Monitor 128

Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Electricity Batteries 128

Charged

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Looking back a decade ago on a tough worldwide EV market, hundreds of thousands of hybrid electrical vehicles (HEV), but only a few thousand battery vehicles (BEV) were yearly sold. Aiming for high volume gave the interconnection technology an important role – roughly 30% of EV battery systems’ costs are related to its manufacturing.

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Technology Batteries Patents Electricity 87

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Battery storage at a solar farm with switchgear. To limit global warming to below 2°C, energy storage capacity would need to increase from 140 GW in 2014 to 450 GW in 2050. If we have to wait for a perfect battery we might be waiting for a long time, wasting time that could be used for climate change mitigation.

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Global warming Energy Energy Carbon 174

Charged

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

How healthy is your battery pack? As the EV ecosystem develops, there will be an increasing need to measure and manage the performance of battery cells. It has also developed a platform that can simulate the real-world performance of different cells, and can evaluate the state of health of existing battery packs.

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GreenBiz

JULY 17, 2020

For you and me, that means batteries last longer. In fact, AMD overachieved the goal, delivering a 31.7 times improvement with its new Ryzen 7 4800H processor. In layperson’s terms, that means that the chip consumes 84 percent energy, while taking 80 percent less compute time for certain tasks. million kilowatt-hours.).

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Energy Energy Technology Organic 398

Charged

JULY 12, 2022

BMW’s i3 was a ground-breaking EV that introduced a number of new technologies when it went on sale in 2014. The company has been producing high-voltage battery modules there since May 2021, and “further e-drive components will be manufactured there with immediate effect.”

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Batteries Electricity Technology 124

GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

The largest behind-the-meter battery title previously went to Convergent Energy + Power for 10-megawatt systems to help industrial companies dodge demand charges in Ontario, Canada. ” Data centers have a generally flat demand profile, which influenced the choice to add a battery to the solar facility.

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Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 246

Charged

JUNE 7, 2022

Battery problems forced it to suspend production of the Bolt, and its electric Silverado pickup remains months in the future. At the heart of GM’s strategy is its Ultium battery pack , which features a modular design that allows it to be used in any GM vehicle, from a cute compact to a ponderous pickup.

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North America Batteries Startups Organic 124

Smart Energy International

JANUARY 10, 2023

Shell Energy Australia is partnering up on – and will connect to the grid – a 500MW/1GWh BESS ( Battery Energy Storage System), to be built on the site of the old Wallerawang Power Station near Lithgow, New South Wales (NSW).

Energy 59

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Charged

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

BYD offers a 12-year warranty on its batteries. LADOT has been working with BYD since 2014 when it conducted a 90-day trial of a battery-electric bus. The Los Angeles Department of Transportation has ordered 130 K7M electric buses from BYD, which calls the order the largest to date in the US. to 3 hours.

Electricity 108

Electricity Batteries Transportation Sustainability 108

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

The TRIG programme was launched by the Department for Transport in 2014 to foster research and innovation in the sector. We need to embrace multiple renewable and clean energy solutions to achieve our net-zero ambitions and we need real investment in infrastructure to develop affordable, reliable, sustainable energy in the future.”.

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Charged

JUNE 10, 2020

In the past, the market for nickel sulfate was largely driven by the plating industry and non-Li-ion battery applications, such as NiMH and NiCd batteries, but year-over-year growth in these areas has stagnated. However, the report cautions, the road will be a bumpy one.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The interconnection rules that tell developers of rooftop solar, behind-the-meter batteries and electric vehicle chargers how much time and money they’ll need to spend to get them grid-connected — or whether they’re even allowed — are a big part of that integration puzzle.

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Charged

AUGUST 22, 2022

Rallycross racing has been a thing for over 50 years, and the FIA-accredited World Rallycross (RX) championship has existed since 2014. The 52 kWh battery pack only weighs 330 kg (total car weight is around 1,400 kg), and the motors deliver 500 kW of power (680 hp) and a massive 880 Nm of torque.

Electricity 116

Electricity Cooling Fossil fuels Batteries 116

GreenTechMedia

JULY 1, 2021

” Then, they compare the climate tech world of today to 2014, a low point in the space when the Prime Coalition was started, examining some of the biggest changes: The influx of generalist investors. Looking for a battery energy storage system? The Interchange is brought to you by Hitachi ABB Power Grids.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 29, 2020

The company went public in 2014 and was sold to Oracle in 2016. The Interchange is brought to you by Fluence, a global leader in battery-based energy storage technology and services. But we’re now recording the interviews remotely. See future events here.

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Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 130

GreenTechMedia

JUNE 12, 2020

Grid battery integrator NEC Energy Solutions is winding down, Bloomberg reported Thursday. The company manufactured and integrated hundreds of megawatts of battery systems for projects around the world. Danish renewables powerhouse Ørsted tapped NEC ES for its first large-scale battery. But parent company NEC Corp.

Batteries 130

Batteries Energy Energy Construction 130

Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Clean energy facilities including battery storage, demand side response and pumped hydro storage are among those tapped to provide back up power to the UK grid next winter, as the government awarded around £380m-worth of contracts in the latest capacity market auction yesterday.

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Batteries Fossil fuels Nuclear Power Government 40

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

By managing demand flexibly through smart technologies such as electric cars, heat pumps and home batteries, grid operators can better balance the supply of renewable energy. KrakenFlex, previously Upside Energy, was founded in 2014 and acquired by Octopus Energy Group in 2020.

Energy 130

Energy Energy Electric vehicle Demand 130

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2020

The recent report also predicts global e-waste – discarded products with a battery or plug – will reach 74 Mt by 2030, almost a doubling of e-waste in just 16 years. Since 2014, the number of countries that have adopted a national e-waste policy, legislation or regulation in place has increased from 61 to 78. A record 53.6

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Charged

MARCH 7, 2023

According to WRI, the first school bus repowers were performed in 2014, and several companies now offer conversions. However, a recent report from the World Resources Institute tells us that repowering existing school buses with electric drivetrains could be a lower-cost and greener option compared to buying a new electric bus.

Electricity 111

Electricity Fossil fuels Batteries Sustainability 111

GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 15, 2020

Companies selling batteries of any sort to businesses grapple with the fact that the devices are expensive, take up valuable space and tend to require a painful and lengthy sales cycle. As such, several commercial battery vendors have shifted their business models , but none have done so quite like Axiom Exergy.

Cooling 130

Cooling Batteries Lithium HVAC 130

Charged

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Available in 10-, 12-, 15- and 18-meter models, the new ie bus features weight reduction, higher passenger capacity, more efficient batteries, and new interior and exterior design, compared to the prior model. The new ie model has a 350 kWh battery pack and a range of 250 km in urban environments and standard weather conditions.

Energy Monitor 54

Energy Monitor Electricity Batteries 54

Charged

JUNE 1, 2021

As recently as 2014, Indonesia produced only 24 kilotons of refined nickel. Indonesia is encouraging investment in nickel for EV batteries. Materials supply chain intelligence company Roskill expects Indonesia to become the world’s largest producer of refined nickel this year, pushing China to second place.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

We have long advocated for a new system that relies on more distributed energy resources spread across communities, but state commissions have lacked modeling tools that show the pathway for local energy resources, like solar, batteries and geothermal for instance, to benefit our electricity grid. billion from 2014 to 2019 in ISO-New England.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 19, 2020

It builds on scores of projects across the country combining high efficiency, electrification, and distributed energy resources (DERs) like rooftop or community solar, battery and thermal energy storage, and electric vehicle charging. is testing these method to shift solar power without batteries, further reducing costs of hitting net-zero.

Energy Monitor 130

Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 130

GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Salient Energy, seeking an alternative to lithium-ion batteries. Concerns over the lithium-ion battery supply chain did not disappear in 2020. Vortex Bladeless was founded in 2014 but 2020 saw it achieving a couple of notable milestones, according to the company’s blog.

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