Energy storage

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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 Carbon Copy from Latitude Media
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Policy

The storylines of the energy transition in 2023

This is the decade to get it right, and we’re almost halfway through it.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Fourth Power lands $19 million for prototype facility

The Cambridge-based startup is betting thermophotovoltaic storage can support a transitioning grid.

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Grid edge

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.

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Solar

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.

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Global markets

Storage developers predict more growth as battery costs fall again

The downward price trend in the battery sector could help unlock new markets.

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Malta nabs funding from Siemens, Alfa Laval for thermal energy storage

The investors join existing shareholders Chevron and Breakthrough Energy Ventures.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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U.S. market

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.