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Energy storage, renewables and markets
The fact that all new power plants in Spain are expected to be renewable, added to the progressive closure of existing conventional power plants, prompts us to reflect upon the kind of market model...
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Concentrated Solar Power with energy storage to ensure stable and reliable...
Concentrated Solar Power with thermal storage will bridge dispatchable energy gap according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. The company’s latest report ‘Energy Storage – A Key...
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Concentrated Solar Power Molten Salt Energy Storage
The new Venture Capital (VC) firm Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) only invests in technologies they vet as both “scientifically feasible at scale” and with the potential to reduce “at least half a...
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Concentrated Solar Power energy storage will bridge “dispatchable energy gap”
Concentrated solar power twinned with thermal energy storage will bridge a “dispatchable energy gap” according to a new report. The study from analytics company GlobalData forecasts a significant rise...
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Energy storage is key for the future of the concentrated solar power market
Concentrated solar power (CSP) with energy storage is an upcoming renewable technology that promises to provide cost-effective power generation with improved efficiency. Although the technology has...
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EPRI to Lead $5 Million DOE/NETL Project to Test Concrete Thermal Energy...
The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) to lead a pilot project to test concrete...
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U.S. to develop concrete thermal storage
The U.S. Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) is to lead a $5-million research project to develop concrete thermal energy storage (CTES) technology that could be used in Concentrated Solar Power...
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EnergyNest signs energy storage contract for concentrated solar power
In the global race for energy storage technologies, the Oslo-based start-up EnergyNest takes the lead. In cooperation with the Italian oil & gas major Eni the first thermal energy storage for...
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Novel Concentrated Solar Power Design Combines the Solar Receiver with...
Among the many international researchers inventing improvements in Concentrated Solar Power (CSP), a Chinese-Finnish team has designed an interesting innovation. They propose integrating energy storage...
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SaltX Berlin pilot plant shows very promising results
The Swedish energy storage company SaltX Technology built and deployed a first-of-its-kind energy storage in 2019. The pilot plant, which is based on a nanocoated salt material, confirms a good...
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NREL Awarded $2.8 Million to Develop a Long-Duration Thermal Energy Storage...
ARPA-E has challenged researchers to innovate a storage technology that can be deployed in almost any location and charge and discharge electricity, at a low fixed cost per cycle, for up to 4 days....
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Can concentrated solar power act as energy storage? DOE wants to know more
The Department of Energy has issued a formal request for information on methods to allow concentrated solar power (CSP) to commercially deploy as cost-competitive energy storage by generating...
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Azelio plans 25 MW of energy storage installations in Jordan
Swedish thermal energy storage developer Azelio on Monday outlined plans to deploy about 25 MW of its systems in Jordan through 2023 under a newly agreed commercial collaboration. The company said it...
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The Noor Concentrated Solar Power Complex and BASF’s 24-Hour Molten Salt...
Molten salt, which is produced by companies such as BASF, is being used in concentrating solar power plants to provide efficient thermal energy storage and is part of the overall solution to the...
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EnergyNest has produced a new type of modular thermal battery able to store...
When you think about humanity’s impact on the climate, images of airplane and car exhaust fumes may spring to mind. Yet aviation and cars only account for 2% and 6% of global carbon emissions,...
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Concentrated solar power plants to produce electricity at night thanks to...
Thermal energy storage (TES) systems can boost the conversion of solar thermal into electricity. They allow the efficient storage of heat during the day so that electricity production continues at...
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Nov 5 Webinar: Abengoa on Retrofitting CSP Plants for Intermittent Renewable...
Spain’s Integrated National Energy and Climate Plan (PINEC) targets 74% of power from renewable sources by 2030, with more than 25GW of PV capacity expected to be added by that year. Hybrid PV – CSP...
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Aalborg CSP receives order for lid solution for Integrated Pit Thermal Energy...
The Danish renewable and energy storage specialist, Aalborg CSP has received an order for the world’s most advanced lid solution to be installed as part of an Integrated Energy System with Pit Thermal...
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Long Duration Energy Storage gets New R&D Lab in Biden’s DOE
A US$75 million national research and development (R&D) facility for energy storage is expected to be up and running by 2025, the US Department of Energy (DOE) said yesterday. Called the Grid...
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Australia-US thermal storage technology progresses to demonstration phase
Next-generation solar thermal energy storage technology developed in partnership with the Australian Solar Thermal Research Initiative (ASTRI) has reached a major milestone, with the United States...
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