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Cheaper, Stronger Lithium-Ion Batteries for Electric Vehicles
A British company is testing new chemistry that could boost the performance of batteries.
Date: 01/04/2010
Type: News
Technologies: Batteries, Energy Storage, Transportation
Tags: batteries, electric vehicle, plug in hybrids
Clemson engineers to create model underground energy-storage facility
Two environmental engineers at Clemson University have received a grant from the U.S. Dept. of Defense to create a new type of energy efficient Subsurface Thermal Energy Storage (STES) system that uses a conventional heat pump to move heat between buildings and the ground.
Date: 06/16/2010
Type: Article, News
Technologies: Buildings, Control Systems, Energy Storage
Tags: building energy use, energy storage, subsurface thermal energy storage (STES)
Ice
Cold Cash For Ice Energy’s Thermal Storage
Ice Energy, a provider of distributed ice-based energy storage to electric utilities, received $24M in venture funding.The firm's ice-based energy storage at commercial buildings has the potential to shift as much as 40 percent of peak energy demand to off-peak hours.
Date: 10/18/2010
Type: Article
Technologies: Energy Storage
Tags: electric utilities, energy storage technologies, ice-based energy storage, thermal storage
Compact and Flexible Thermal Storage
Using specialized pellets with highly porous surfaces, researchers have discovered a method for efficient and lost-lasting storage of thermal energy.
Date: 06/06/2012
Type: News
Technologies: Materials, Energy Conversion, Energy Storage
Tags: thermal storage
Company Breaks Ground on 'Flywheel' Energy-Storage Plant
Beacon Power Corp. to build a 20-megawatt flywheel energy-storage facility in New York.
Date: 11/19/2009
Type: News
Technologies: Flywheels, Energy Storage
Tags: DOE, energy storage, flywheel
Compressed Air Energy Storage schematic
Compressed Air Storage Beats Batteries at Grid Scale
Venture firms have funded many electrochemical technologies for utility-scale energy storage, but issues with cost, long-term reliability and utility familiarity limit their feasibility. Compressed air energy storage (CAES) may offer a more affordable and reliable alternative.
Date: 03/03/2011
Type: Article
Technologies: Energy Storage
Tags: battery, CAES, compressed air, energy storage technologies, flow battery, fuel cell, pumped hydropower
Dipping May Improve Ultracapacitors and Batteries
Adding a coating of graphene or carbon nanotubes is showing promise for improving the energy density of traditional ultracapacitors and may have applications for the lithium-ion battery market as well.
Date: 10/06/2011
Type: News
Technologies: Batteries, Materials, Energy Conversion, Energy Storage
Tags: carbon nanotubes, graphene, lithium ion batteries, supercapacitors, ultracapacitors
DOE to Invest $18 Million in Small Business Clean Energy Innovation Projects
The U.S. Department of Energy awards grants to various clean energy technology projects, including HVAC system efficiency, cool roofs, smart controllers for smart grid applications, and advanced solar technologies.
Date: 11/24/2009
Type: News
Technologies: Buildings, Economic Impact, Energy Conversion, Energy Efficiency Policy, Energy Storage
Tags: ARRA, clean energy technology, DOE
Amprius' silicon nanowire battery.
Doubling Lithium-Ion Battery Storage
Battery startup Amprius plans to bring to market in 2012 a battery that uses nanostructured silicon electrodes to store twice as much energy as anything on the market today.
Date: 09/17/2010
Type: Article
Technologies: Batteries, Energy Storage
Tags: energy storage technologies, lithium-ion batteries, portable electronics, silicon electrodes
Down Time: Renewable Energy and the Quest for Storage
Due to the variance in many renewable power generation methods, many utilities are looking into energy storage technologies that would store excess solar energy for peak demand times.
Date: 10/02/2009
Type: Blog, Video
Technologies: Energy Storage, Utilities
Tags: energy demand, energy storage, renewable energy, utilities

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