Like solar, wind and other sustainable energy technologies, electric vehicles (EV) face the daunting challenge of becoming cost competitive with their fossil fuel burning rivals. Never one to back away from a challenge, EV...
Electrical contractors might be seeing more customers interested in adding battery-based energy storage systems to their homes and businesses, especially in California, Hawaii and Arizona, where incentives are available to...
From incremental improvements to something entirely new, today’s battery research and development is breaking ground in how we’ll store and deliver power. Today, one rechargeable battery type towers over the rest. The U.S...
Cummins Inc. is working with researchers to find a way toeffectively reuse and repurpose electric vehicle batteries. The Columbus, Indiana-based power manufacturer last week announced that the University of California San...
Lithium-ion batteries are rechargeable energy cells considered to have a “high-energy density,” meaning they can store a lot of energy. As an energy source, lithium-ion cells have been around for a while. Lithium-ion...
In April, an explosion at a utility-scale lithium-ion battery facility owned by Arizona Public Service (in place to store power from a solar energy array) sent eight firefighters to the hospital. The firefighters were there...
The market for residential energy-storage systems may be small, but it’s gathering speed. These systems require professional installation, so they represent a new market for electrical contractors. As manufacturers and...
With only 265,000 customers, Vermont’s Green Mountain Power (GMP) is among the nation’s smaller investor-owned utilities, though you’d never guess this from its influence as a renewable-energy innovator. Unlike many larger...
As the quest continues for new ways to store renewable power, making it a more competitive source of energy on a massive scale, the search for capable storage materials becomes more surreal. In the latest twist in this...
Despite the growing popularity of solar and wind power, the two renewable technologies still suffer from one glaring weakness: both generate power at nature’s mercy. Their intermittent productivity is widely known. Now, a...
As the consumption of power generated by unconventional sources grows, so does the need to store that power. Whether it is due to the intermittent nature of the power (as in the case of renewables) or the need for portability...
