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Solar Flares Effect On Off-Grid Systems
Solar flares are huge gas eruptions from the surface of the sun. Their wide spectrum…
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Vanadium Flow Battery Redirects China Energy
On 4 November 2017, the China government awarded a contract for a 12 MWh vanadium…
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How Flywheel Energy Storage Is a Battery
Do you remember when you had a rubber-band-power airplane when you were a kid? By…
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Batteries Are Returning Power to Puerto Rico
Five weeks after Hurricane Maria struck, the Caribbean Island is still almost entirely without electricity.
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Batteries Will Blanket The U.S. in 5 Years
The Duke Energy director of business development made this dramatic prediction in Chicago last Thursday.…
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Lead-Free Zinc Anode Battery Update
The U.S. Department of Energy created a stir a few years ago. Because their sponsorship…
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Intelligent Batteries Responding to High Demand
Demand peaks are not a power utility’s best friend. Sometimes they occur in familiar patterns,…
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Grid Frequency and How Batteries Help
We wrote recently about how Sheffield University is using flywheels and batteries to balance grid…
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Batteries Bring Stability to UK Grid
Shifting across to green solar and wind power has had its limitations, to date. In…
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Are Batteries Falling Behind Progress
We should pity poor old batteries when they get a bad press. After all, we…