Most powerful industrial lithium-ion battery has wind apps

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Excerpt: A Canadian company says its transforming renewable-energy, transportation, and marine industries with its release of an advanced lithium-ion battery that can store and distribute energy in megawatt sizes and has the capacity to output sustained power comparable to diesel engines in hybrid and fu …

Ceramic capacitor could store energy from wind and solar

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Excerpt: Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are leading a $2 million study to help widen a bottleneck that is slowing proliferation of large-scale wind and solar power generation. The four-year study aims to develop novel ceramic materials for use in a new approach to energy storage. Rather than …

Hybrid power train drives this cool cat when wind cannot

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Excerpt: A hybrid power train in the world’s largest plug-in, hybrid-electric sailboat – a 60-ft Tag Yachts catamaran, will let it run on wind-generated electricity stored in lithium-ion batteries. Christened Tang at her September 21 launching, the carbon-fiber cat is undergoing tests at Tag faciliti …

Energy Storage Conference in Phoenix, Jan. 12 to 13

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Excerpt: Conference production company Marcus Evans will host the Electric Energy Storage Conference, Jan. 12 to 13, 2011 in Phoenix, Ariz. More than 16 industry experts will provide insights on best practices for energy storage, share results of research and design projects and explain how to integrate stor …

Power storage company appoints new CEO

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Excerpt: The Silicon Valley is home to the electrical storage company Deeya Energy, a manufacturer of the L-Cell battery. It’s based on a NASA development in the early 70s as a potential energy storage method for long-term space flights. Deeya is experienced in industrial power, energy storage, tele …

Hawaii wind project includes battery storage

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Excerpt: A developer of power-storage equipment for utility-scale tasks will supply a 15 MVA, 10 MWh battery and power-management controls for the Kahuku Wind Project on Oahu. This marks the second Hawaiian project for which Xtreme Power, Kyle, Texas (xtremepowerinc.com) has supplied equipment. The groun …

8 kW wind inverter comes with double standard warranty

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Excerpt: An 8,000W inverter for wind turbines expands the Windy Boy lineup, which now consists of five models ranging from 3,000 to 8,000 W. The unit’s factory warranty, from SMA America, Rocklin, Calif. (sma-america.com) has also been increased to 10 years, with the ability to extend to 15 or 20 years. …

Building a better battery

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Excerpt: T2 Technology, a deep cycle battery, works well with wind turbine and solar systems. Three significant developments from developer Trojan Batteries make the devices noteworthy: Alpha Plus Paste, a proprietary, high-density formulation optimizes porosity development in the active mate …

Chemical capacitor to store wind power

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Excerpt: Xtreme Power Inc says it has power storage technology that can beat lithium ion batteries in terms of energy efficiency, cycle life, and cost. The Texas-based company won a contract to install a 10-MW battery to back up a 30-MW wind farm planned for Oahu, Hawaii. Project developer First Wind rec …

Overview of wind power storage media

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Excerpt: Wind power storage development is essential for renewable energy technologies to become economically feasible. There are many different ways in which one can store electrical energy, the following outlines the various media used to store grid-ready energy produced by wind turbines. For more on appli …