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“No Benefit to Basing Home Energy Storage Systems on Automotive Batteries” says Mercedes Benz
May 17th, 2018A New Kind of Energy Consumption Needs a New Kind of Energy Provision
April 27th, 2018
The Smart Grid May Need a Little Competition to Find its Sense of Urgency
We are experiencing huge growth in the adoption of rooftop solar panels plus energy storage as a means to gain independence from the antiquated, overpriced and largely fossil-fueled electricity grid. Energy independent homes and small communities linked by microgrids, appear to be leading us to a brighter energy future, and the charge is being made […]
The Eclipse Beats Solar Power But Is Tackled By Energy Storage
“If the eclipse of the sun is complete it will be dark forever. The demons of darkness will come down. They will eat men!,” reads the The Florentine Codex, an ethnographic study of 16th-century Aztecs in Mexico, which included their interpretation of solar eclipses. In the modern age we, for the most part, have a […]
ZEN; the Zero Energy Nanotechnology Building
Amongst the many buildings of the SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Albany, New York, something a bit different stands. Within the buildings of Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) exists what might be the world’s most advanced university research enterprise in existence today. With 300 industrial partners, 4,000 scientists, engineers, students and faculty, and over […]
Tesla’s New Energy Products Leave Competitors Playing Catch Up
Tesla continues their busy year with the announcement of three new products last week. There were releases for the second generation of their powerwall and powerpack energy storage systems, in addition to the long awaited debut of their pioneering solar roof – an energy producing glass roof tile set to revolutionize home solar installations. In […]
Welcome To Smart Japan
Europe, the US and China dominate smart city developments, Singapore and South Korea are grabbing some headlines, while India floods news feeds with its own smart city ambitions. Quietly a giant sleeps, a tech giant with the capacity for great smartness is slowly but surely developing its cities in a bid to leap frog all […]
The Future Looks Bright For Energy Storage
“Energy storage is the only technology that can use energy generated during low cost off-peak periods to serve load during expensive peak periods, thereby improving the overall utilization and economics of the electric grid,” states a recent Massachusetts Energy Storage Initiative report that encourages the wide-scale deployment of energy to meet grid demands. Recognizing that […]
Synergy Australia: Future Homes to use only 10% Grid Energy
Last month, a presentation by Western Australia’s state-owned electricity retailer, Synergy, suggested that, within a decade, residential buildings may use the grid for only 10% of their energy supply, thanks to a combination of smart building and appliances, together with solar and battery storage. The presentation, titled ‘The Challenges of Creative Destruction for the Electricity […]
LichtBlick: Smart Buildings to Form Decentralised Power Plants of the Future
Just a year or two ago, LichtBlick, a Hamburg based supplier of environmentally friendly sources of electricity, was seen as a niche player in the energy sector, hardly known to the country’s conventional energy suppliers. Recently, however, representatives from large power groups such as E.On, RWE and EnBW have been flocking the company’s headquarters to […]
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