Lockheed Martin announced plans to launch a new “flow” battery made of inexpensive, nontoxic materials that will help utilities use more renewable energy while saving money, according to a news story in Reuters. “You open up a chance not only to make renewables more marketable and more useful, you might even change the structure of…
Assessement service promises more accurate wind data
A site assessment service includes preparation, equipment shipping (Doppler lidar), installation, custom analysis and reporting, consultation, and decommissioning. WindProspector and WindTracer are available in a monthly data subscription with a minimum deployment of three months. The WindProspector products in the service include a suite of software tools for smarter wind farm installation that allow…
University team discovery lets Li-ion batteries charge faster
Editor’s note: Storing power generated by any large-scale source would let utilities spend less fossil fuel and take advantage of renewable energy sources that produce on variable schedules. Hence, the importance of this news. The article comes from Rice University. Researchers at Rice University have refined silicon-based lithium-ion technology by literally crushing their previous work…
Tracing the wind
Maryland-based Lockheed Martin offers a Doppler lidar sensor for charactierizing wind resources over large spatial areas from a single location. The WindTracer provides reliable data that the manufacturer says can lower investment risk and improve energy production prediction accuracy.