Energy storage
Key Capture Energy sells ITCs as clean energy tax market heats up
Tax credit financing is picking up.
Could AI-powered defect detection boost battery manufacturing?
Inside Liminal's goal of giving the EV industry a boost with ultrasound and machine learning.
The storylines of the energy transition in 2023
This is the decade to get it right, and we’re almost halfway through it.
Investors see light ahead for the LDES market
2023 wasn’t an inflection point for the technology, but investors have near-term optimism, thanks in part to the low low price of solar.
What do you do with a 100-hour battery?
Form Energy’s Mateo Jaramillo argues that utilities can use multiday storage to do more than balance intermittent renewables.
Building novel storage projects on brownfields
A project led by Midwestern utility Alliant Energy shows the good and bad of developing climatetech projects on used coal sites.
Fourth Power lands $19 million for prototype facility
The Cambridge-based startup is betting thermophotovoltaic storage can support a transitioning grid.
Duke Energy disconnects CATL batteries in North Carolina
An installation at a Marine Corps base is on hold following lawmaker concern over the battery-maker’s connections to China’s Communist Party.
Millions of EV batteries could retire on solar farms
A Southern California company is showing how repurposing EV batteries for stationary storage can extend their usefulness for several years.
Storage developers predict more growth as battery costs fall again
The downward price trend in the battery sector could help unlock new markets.
Malta nabs funding from Siemens, Alfa Laval for thermal energy storage
The investors join existing shareholders Chevron and Breakthrough Energy Ventures.
Building on brownfields: A first-in-the-U.S. storage project lands on a coal site
A utility-led project shows the promise — and challenges — of developing climatetech projects on used sites.
SB Energy taps Stem to bring AI to national storage projects
The companies will collaborate on energy storage deployments, to the tune of 10GWh over the next five years.
Is industrial electrification entering its Goldilocks era?
As it pursues $50 million in Series B funding, battery manufacturer Acculon is betting on a convergence of market preference and regulatory support.
Electricity markets aren’t ready for long-duration energy storage
The current market set-up doesn’t always recognize the benefits that emerging and existing storage technologies provide to the grid.