L R AS Published on Monday 3 April 2023 - n° 439 - Categories:lithium batteries
Germany deployed 1.2 GW/1.9 GWh of residential batteries in 2022
Cumulative residential battery installations in Germany reached 5.5 GW by the end of 2022. Large-scale storage activity is increasing
AS Published on Monday 27 March 2023 - n° 438 - Categories:battery materials
Metal prices at record lows on fears of a global recession
Nickel, copper and aluminium prices have fallen to their lowest levels in months.
L R AS Published on Monday 27 March 2023 - n° 438 - Categories:self-consumption, other France
Solar panels on council housing roofs for 20% self-consumption
Plurial Novilia, a social housing company, has fitted solar panels to 123 houses in the Reims area. The electricity is redistributed
L R AS Published on Monday 20 March 2023 - n° 437 - Categories:self-consumption
A new solar self-consumption offer
Mylight Systems launches MySmart PPA, a solar self-consumption offer for businesses enabling them to accelerate their energy consumption
L R AS Published on Sunday 19 March 2023 - n° 437 - Categories:self-consumption
The false expectations of prosumers
A German consumer association, the Verbraucherzentrale NRW, is working to dispel false expectations about photovoltaic installations that could disappoint prosumers (energy producer-consumers).
AS Published on Monday 13 March 2023 - n° 436 - Categories:heat pump, self-consumption
Self-consumption with PV+heat pumps would reach 80% of needs
The Fraunhofer Institute has carried out a study on the use of solar energy as a local energy source in an urban residential area in Bochum (Germany)
Approximately 1.3 million kilowatt hours (kWh) are required annually for heating and hot water in this area, and 260,000 kWh for electrical energy.
L R AS Published on Monday 27 February 2023 - n° 434 - Categories:Germany, lithium batteries
Study on storage in Germany
The Solar Storage Systems Research Group at the German University of Applied Sciences in Berlin (HTW) has presented the latest edition of its "Energy Storage Inspection".
Around 200,000 systems installed in Germany by 2022
AS Published on Monday 27 February 2023 - n° 434 - Categories:storage, storage area
Will a new storage development cycle begin?
Energy storage has become the key point in determining the ceiling for clean energy development. According to TrendForce, new global energy storage installations have reached a record level of 20.5 GW/42.1 GWh in 2022, which represents a progression of
L R AS Published on Sunday 5 February 2023 - n° 433 - Categories:other methods
Disadvantages of vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFB)
Vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs) suffer from comparatively low energy densities as well as
AS Published on Sunday 29 January 2023 - n° 432 - Categories:other methods
A seawater flow battery
Salgens, a young American company, has developed a scalable seawater flow battery. It can be used in the renewable energy sector,
AS Published on Sunday 29 January 2023 - n° 432 - Categories:European countries, self-consumption
Doubling of self-consumption installations in Spain by 2022
Spain has deployed 2.5 GW of self-consumption solar in 2022, almost half of the total
AS Published on Monday 23 January 2023 - n° 431 - Categories:lithium batteries
Leclanché has developed an environmentally-friendly battery
Battery manufacturer Leclanché has improved the environmentally-friendly manufacture of its G/NMCA (nickel-manganese-cobalt-alumina) batteries. It has reduced the cobalt content from 20% to 5%.
AS Published on Sunday 15 January 2023 - n° 430 - Categories:hydrogen
Gravitricity to present its underground hydrogen storage solution
Storage specialist Gravitricity is to present the first full-scale demonstration of its underground hydrogen storage solution.
L R AS Published on Monday 19 December 2022 - n° 429 - Categories:other methods
The emergence of inertial storage ? orders for Green Gravity and Energy Vault
Green Gravity is expected to provide an extended period of energy storage in Australia for the electricity grid by moving
AS Published on Monday 19 December 2022 - n° 429 - Categories:hydrogen
And what if the value of hydrogen is grossly overestimated?
BloombergNEF's hydrogen expert dismisses hydrogen as the world's future energy
Over the past three years, the lobby group Hydrogen Council has commissioned a series of reports from McKinsey.