Energy Storage
Machine Learning Algorithms Support Demand Response Residential Buildings
March 27th, 2019Brexit, Brexit, Brexit… and Smart Buildings
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Industry is Poised to Install Microgrids Faster Than Any Other Sector
According to the Rocky Mountain Institute corporate survey, nearly two-thirds of Fortune 100 companies and nearly half of Fortune 500 companies have set ambitious green energy targets. Some, like tech giants Google and Apple, have gone green by investing directly in vast renewable energy generation plants for their power-hungry data centers, but for the majority […]
Shell Announces Smart Building Partnerships with Sparkfund & GridPoint
“The Paris Agreement has sent a signal around the world. A new energy system is emerging. It will unfold over decades, moving at different paces in different places. The transition offers challenges, opportunities and tough choices for governments, businesses and customers,” states the Shell Energy Transition Report. Royal Dutch Shell, the British-Dutch oil and gas […]
Politics Not Technology Stands in the Way of a Clean Energy Future
“It is the way of this world that a ‘crazy person’ is often required for lowering the risk barriers for everyone else,” said 1998 Nobel Laureate in Physics, author and professor at Stanford University Robert B. Laughlin. “In science we like to say that there are three stages of any important new idea; the first […]
Turning Entire Cities into Batteries with Energy Storing Cement
Instead of adding batteries to buildings in order to turn them into virtual power plants, what if we could use the building itself to store electricity? That is the thinking behind research at the University of Lancaster in the UK that has come up with a “smart cement” that is able to cost effectively store […]
A Blueprint for Scalable Virtual Power Plants & A New Energy System
While many people don’t know what a virtual power plant is, those who do still might not realize the scale of the impact they could have on our energy system. One up and coming start-up is showing that virtual power plants aren’t just about turning buildings into power generating facilities but potentially turning real estate […]
Tesla’s Energy Products Continue to Suffer Delays but What or Who is to Blame?
Order a Tesla Powerwall in the US today and you’ll be waiting six to nine months for it to arrive. Want to combine that with a Solar Roof and it will be well into 2019 before installation might happen. Elon Musk’s firm are experiencing such severe delays on these energy products that those who have […]
The Hot & Cold of it: Alphabet’s Project Malta Energy Storage Set to Spin-Off
It was almost exactly one year ago that X, Alphabet’s secretive “moonshot” development division, released the details of its energy storage concept code named Project Malta. Led by Nobel Prize–winning Stanford physics professor Robert Laughlin, the technology is said to offer vast cost and functionality improvements on lithium ion batteries and pumped hydroelectric for grid-scale […]
Billionaires Betting Big on Energy Storage Technologies
50 years ago, a Stanford Research Institute report titled ‘Sources, Abundance, and Fate of Gaseous Atmospheric Polluters’ was the first to officially suggest that “rising CO2 levels could bring about climatic changes like temperature increases, melting of ice caps and sea level rise.” After the most heavily polluting half century in human history we now […]
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