US power generation company Vistra has received permission to expand an battery facility to become one of the world’s largest energy stores. The company operates the Moss Landing gas-fired power […]
Northvolt just raised another $1.6 billion in debt, bringing total debt and equity raised to $3 billion. We recently interview Northvolt CEO Peter Carlsson about Northvolt’s history and plans (see […]
Today, Air Products, ACWA Power, and NEOM announced a new $5B green hydrogen facility that will be sited in NEOM, Saudi Arabia. The project will use 4 GW of […]
Growth in utility-scale PV is rapidly changing ERCOT market July 14, 2020 (IEEFA) — New utility-scale solar is poised to push much of the remaining coal-fired power fleet across Texas […]
The Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced the approval of a proposal to construct and operate the largest solar project in U.S. history. […]
Pumped hydro dams are prominently used as energy storage in East Africa, but that is changing with the increase in renewable energy and battery energy storage systems. The Eastern Africa […]
French energy firm Total will build what it calls France’s largest battery storage project along the nation’s northern coast. The company announced the project in Mardyck, at the Flandres […]
One way out of this problem is to sprinkle small amounts of silicon oxide—better known as sand—throughout a graphite anode. This is what Tesla currently does with its batteries. Silicon […]
Greentech Media: The world’s largest asset manager has a new multibillion-dollar renewable energy fund in the works, and a good chunk of it may go to batteries. Looking out over […]
Wind power has been around for well over a thousand years. The Persians first used wind power in the first millennium. Over the last few hundred years, the most notable […]