NEW GREEN ENERGY STORAGE BATTERIES BEING DEPLOYED

🌞 Critical need for storage of excess solar and wind energy has been difficult to fill.

📈 This new practical method from Energy Dome in Italy requires no rare minerals and is being deployed at scale, indicating early acceptance.

#SolarPunkSunday #Energy #GreenEnergy #StorageBatteries #Batteries

https://futurism.com/science-energy/google-co2-battery-facilities

Forbes: Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World — https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2025/10/19/uruguays-renewable-charge-a-small-nation-a-big-lesson-for-the-world/

A key takeaway: #Hydro and #Wind provide 80%, #Biomass 15%. 1-3% is from flexible thermal (fossil fuel powered,) with the balance being #Solar.

#Uruguay's #EnergyTransition shows there is a #ThirdWay, producing effectively all their energy with renewables and without high tech #StorageBatteries. They do not rely on #silicon solar, either.

It added 50,000 jobs, in a nation of 3.5 million.

#FlowBatteries are a cool concept to store industrial amounts of electricity until demanded. The current utility-grade technology uses vanadium, which has supply chain isues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_battery

Just ran across a company named #Elestor, which is working with a hydrogen & bromide chemisty: both plentiful and cheap. The goal is low price per MW storage.

Anyone know anything about them?

https://elestor.com/

#StorageBatteries #renewables

Een maker van Flow Batterijen #Redflow is in moeilijkheden. Techniek is veel belovend maar markt acceptatie is altijd de moeilijke stap 2. Ik heb het gevoel dat er een shake out gaande is. Welke batterij maker/techniek het dan wel of niet red. Laatst ook #northvolt. #energietransitie #flowbatteries #storagebatteries #gridbatteries

Flow battery maker Redflow goes out of business
https://www.energy-storage.news/flow-battery-maker-redflow-out-of-business-with-administrators-unable-to-find-buyer/

#California’s #PowerGrid passed the reliability test this #HeatWave. It’s all about giant #batteries

By Ari Plachta
Updated July 16, 2024

"California’s power grid emerged from a nearly three weeklong record-setting heat wave relatively unscathed, and officials are crediting years of investment in #RenewableEnergy — particularly #GiantBatteries that store #SolarPower for use when the sun stops shining.

"'This was a good early test that we passed in very good shape,' said Elliot Mainzer, president and CEO of California Independent System Operator (#CAISO), on Monday. 'Investments in new clean energy and in dispatchable battery storage played a major role.'

"CAISO last issued calls for voluntary conservation two years ago, during a 2022 bout of #ExtremeHeat. Since then, roughly 11,600 megawatts of new #renewable energy sources have come onto California’s electricity grid. That includes 10,000 megawatts of battery power, enough to power 10 million homes for a few hours. California is now home to the most #GridBatteries in the world outside of China, Mainzer said. 'Batteries performed very well in this event, they were charged and ready at the right times for optimization on the grid,' he added. 'That made a big, big difference.'"

Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article290009339.html#storylink=cpy

#StorageBatteries #HeatWaves #RenewablesNow #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming