Energy Storage

Energy Toolbase and Stellar Solar implemented an advanced energy management system for the Mira Loma transportation campus.

The new power control system (PCS) is designed to maximize capacity and storage integration with solar arrays.

Everoze Partner Nithin Rajavelu considers the crucial importance of properly measuring and managing battery state-of-charge (SoC) for the efficiency, longevity, and safety of battery energy storage system (BESS) projects, especially in lithium ferro-phosphate (LFP) devices, which are widely used for large-scale storage.

Powerchina has switched on a 100 MW solar tower in South Africa. The concentrated solar power (CSP) project will supply 480 GWh of clean energy to the country’s power grid each year. The system’s molten salt storage enables 12 hours of full-load operation.

The Italian manufacturer said the its new polyvalent reversible heat pump has a seasonal coefficient of performance of 4.44 to 4.59 and a seasonal energy efficiency ratio of 7.72 to 7.53. It can reportedly achieve a flow temperature of up to 55 C.

The KGAL ESPF 6 Energy Transition Fund says it is investing in a 1,050 MW green hydrogen hub at Lubmin, a Baltic Sea port in Germany.

China-based Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. (CATL) has launched a new 376 kW/752 kWh product expanding its TENER energy storage series in response to logistics and geospatial challenges facing energy storage products in Europe. The new solution integrates with both string and central inverters, meeting the needs of both large-scale commericial and industrial as well as distributed generation applications.

Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Fraunhofer ISE) is developing “easy-to-use and reproducible” propane heat pumps to replace fossil fuel systems in multi-family homes, while exploring modernization options for various residential building types.

An international research term investigated the feasibility of converting solar energy into chemical energy with the design of a hybrid device featuring a solar energy storage and cooling layer integrated with a silicon-based solar cell. Under testing, the device recorded a record energy storage efficiency and decreased the cell’s surface temperature by approximately 8 C under standard solar irradiation conditions.

The system was conceived to respond to Lebanon’s energy crisis and help homeowners become independent from grid electricity. Biogas production is used when PV power generation is insufficient and machine learning techniques help the system predict solar energy production.