Tag: batteries

December 12, 2022

A former coal-fired power plant in New Jersey was imploded earlier this month as the state moves aggressively to adopt clean energy policies. Starwood Energy demolished the former Logan Generating Plant and announced plans for a new $1 billion venture […]

October 20, 2022

Kawartha Lakes will be holding battery collection days from November 14th through the 17th. Residents will be allowed to bring batteries to the curb alongside their usual recyclables. Only A, AA, AAA, C, D, 9V, button batteries, and lantern batteries […]

July 22, 2022

Georgia regulators approved the retirement and decertification of all Georgia Power-controlled coal units by 2028, with the exception of the 3,300 MW Plant Bowen. Regulators also approved 2,400 MW of capacity from natural gas power purchase agreements in the coming […]

June 27, 2022

Exciting electrochemical storage technologies are emerging as the world races to meet bold climate-action goals designed to foster carbon neutrality and temper the long-term effects of global warming. Battery energy storage systems (BESS) are essential to this pioneering revolution as […]

April 21, 2022

When the White House signed an executive order to get to 50% electric vehicle (EV) sales share by 2030 while relying on American manufacturing, there were some serious concerns about whether the U.S. could make that many EVs, and then […]

April 14, 2022

The Arizona Corporate Commission (ACC) has delivered a major blow to the Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District’s (SRP’s) urgent plans to expand the 575-MW gas-fired Coolidge Generating Station with 820 MW of fast-start capacity. The ACC in […]

January 20, 2022

A power plant in Tennessee is the site of a project using carbon dioxide (CO2) to help manufacture carbon nanotubes (CNTs), which can be used in a variety of products from wind turbine blades to cellphone batteries to lightweight bicycle […]

February 5, 2021

California regulators are on the cusp of breaking open a long-awaited opportunity to enlist rooftop solar, behind-the-meter batteries and other distributed energy resources (DERs) to substitute for expensive grid upgrades. It’s called the Partnership Pilot, and according to DER developers, […]

February 2, 2021

The threat of power grid-sparked wildfires is forcing California utilities to invest billions of dollars in hardening and monitoring their grids and to institute grid blackouts affecting up to hundreds of thousands of customers to reduce the risk of live […]

September 30, 2020

California has more distributed energy resources (DERs) than any other state, pressuring it to find ways to integrate them into the grid. The interconnection rules that tell developers of rooftop solar, behind-the-meter batteries and electric vehicle chargers how much time […]

May 27, 2020

New Jersey looked like the promised land for energy storage. The state already has the seventh-largest U.S. installed solar capacity, ahead of nearby New York and Massachusetts. Gov. Phil Murphy campaigned in 2017 on a clean energy platform that pushed […]

February 19, 2019

To further its goal of moving toward closed-loop recycling for lithium-ion batteries, the U.S. Department of Energy has launched a research center, ReCell, at the Argonne National Laboratory. The use of lithium-ion batteries has surged in recent years, starting with […]

February 15, 2019

Surrey, Canada based American Manganese Inc., has completed stages 1 and 2 of the Company’s lithium-ion battery recycling pilot plant operations which included the pre-treatment of feedstock material and a leach of the cathode active material. “It is exciting to […]

November 9, 2018

Approval of PG&E’s landmark energy storage solicitation is the most significant example to date of batteries taking the place of fossil fuel generation on the power grid. Energy storage has helped decrease the California’s reliance on gas for years, particularly […]

September 26, 2018

Whole Foods has been ordered to pay more than $1.6 million for mishandling hazardous waste throughout California. According to the district attorneys’ complaint, Whole Foods, Mrs. Gooch’s Natural Food Markets and WFM-WO Inc. mishandled hazardous wastes and materials throughout the […]

April 24, 2018

While Superstorm Sandy made energy resilience a priority, the devastating outage on Puerto Rico has taken it to a whole new level. Puerto Rico is only now approaching full power seven months after Hurricane Maria decimated the island, knocking out […]

November 16, 2016

When smart phone batteries catch fire or laptop batteries explode on airplanes, it makes the news. So far batteries used to store energy at the residential and commercial level have avoided those headlines. But eventually there will be a problem. […]

September 16, 2016

There are now more than 1 million solar systems installed on residential rooftops across America. That’s not some arbitrary milestone. It means that there are nearly as many solar electric systems serving U.S. homes as there are permanent backup generators. In […]