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Can data center customers pull LDES out of the valley of death?
Last week long-duration energy storage company Eos Energy, which makes a zinc-based battery, announced it had secured an investment of up to $315.5 million from Cerberus Capital Management. And yesterday, the company said it had started commercial production of its...
Vertiv Expands Portfolio with ZincFive Battery Series
Vertiv to incorporate the ZincFive BC Series uninterruptible power supply battery cabinets into its range of battery systems, for data centre backup power. Vertiv has shared that it will add the ZincFive BC Series uninterruptible power supply (UPS) Battery Cabinets to...
Further innovation required to achieve $0.05/kWh target for long-duration storage: DOE
The Department of Energy released its cost analysis for 11 technologies one day before announcing several funding and innovation opportunities for long-duration storage developers. The levelized cost of 11 long-duration storage technologies in 2030 is expected to...
World’s first zinc-ion battery megafactory opens in Sweden
World’s first zinc-ion battery megafactory The 6,500m² (70,000ft²) Enerpoly Production Innovation Centre (EPIC) facility is located in Rosersberg in northern Stockholm. It is said to achieve a final capacity throughput of 100MWh annually by 2026. The commissioning for...
World’s first zinc-ion battery megafactory opens in Sweden
World’s first zinc-ion battery megafactory The 6,500m² (70,000ft²) Enerpoly Production Innovation Centre (EPIC) facility is located in Rosersberg in northern Stockholm. It is said to achieve a final capacity throughput of 100MWh annually by 2026. The commissioning for...
Scientists seek to invent a safe, reliable, and cheap battery for electricity grids
The new Aqueous Battery Consortium of Stanford, SLAC, and 13 other research institutions, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, seeks to overcome the limitations of a battery using water as its electrolyte. How do you store electricity in a way that is large and...
Long-Duration Energy Storage Can’t Wait
The public wish list for battery makers is pretty straightforward. People want batteries that work for days without needing to be recharged, don’t leak or catch fire, and provide reliable energy storage for many years. Our currently available energy storage technology...
Daily Digest: East Bay battery maker expands; SF Ballet names new director
Company opens battery manufacturing plant in Oakland Richmond-based battery manufacturer Enzinc announced that it's scaling up and automating the production of its zinc anodes in Oakland, where this week it opened a 10,000-square-foot manufacturing technology center...
INFAB project develops cost-effective and environmentally friendly alternatives to lithium-ion batteries
Lithium-ion batteries are the state of the art in stationary energy storage, but parts of the raw material extraction are controversial due to environmental and social problems. The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE has therefore joined forces with...