Energy Storage: the Next Charge for Distributed Energy.

Jay OwenResource Efficiency

By John Farrell, Institute for Local Self-Reliance, March 2014   Energy storage promises to change the electricity system during the next decade, as fundamentally as distributed renewable energy has in the last decade. A new report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Energy Storage: The Next Charge for Distributed Energy, forecasts …

Solar-Powered Tortillas In Mexico

Ethical MarketsGreentech

Solar-Powered Tortillas In Mexico Posted: 10 Dec 2012 05:45 PM PST Central Mexico has copious amounts of sun and tortillas, so perhaps it isn’t so surprising someone came up with the idea of using solar power to make them. In the town of El Sauz, north of Mexico City, German businessman …

Energy Storage Systems To Bring Baseload Renewable Energy, But Who Will Benefit? (+ New Energy Storage System From Australia)

Ethical MarketsGreentech

Energy Storage Systems To Bring Baseload Renewable Energy, But Who Will Benefit? (+ New Energy Storage System From Australia) Posted: 24 Nov 2012 03:00 AM PST Filed under: Energy News   Concentrated Photovoltaics (CPV) That Can Deliver $60/MWh?! Posted: 24 Nov 2012 03:00 AM PST Filed under: Energy News   …

Grid-scale Energy Storage: Lux Predicts $113.5 Billion in Global Demand by 2017

kristyGreentech

——————————————————————————– Grid-scale Energy Storage: Lux Predicts $113.5 Billion in Global Demand by 2017 Posted: 04 Apr 2012 03:50 AM PDT John Petersen Last month Lux Research released a bottom-up evaluation of the cost effectiveness of eight energy storage technologies in six grid-scale applications throughout 44 countries, including all 50 U.S. …