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  • Watt It Takes: Form Energy’s Mateo Jaramillo on His Mission to Build Long-Duration Batteries

    Watt It Takes: Form Energy’s Mateo Jaramillo on His Mission to Build Long-Duration Batteries

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    This week on Watt It Takes: Powerhouse CEO Emily Kirsch sits with Mateo Jaramillo, both the CEO and co-founder of Form Energy. Form is working on a new sort of battery that is long-duration life. And Mateo has among those longer-duration professions in the storage market.  From the early 2000she set the first systems in…

  • Tesla and the Subtle Art of Turning Promise Into Reality [GTM Squared]

    Tesla and the Subtle Art of Turning Promise Into Reality [GTM Squared]

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    Any business venture entails some amount of faking it until making it. The difference between delivery and the promise subsequently becomes a barometer for your business 's credibility. Since I coated lately, Tesla's hotly anticipated solar roofing has, thus far, stayed more in the realm of promise than delivery. The merchandise Elon Musk initially showed…

  • Big batteries are all the rage, but this one’s 16 years old

    Big batteries are all the rage, but this one’s 16 years old

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    David R. Baker, Bloomberg New York City dove headlong to build bigger and bigger batteries as regulators approved plans for a system on the East River in Queens. But for all those keeping score, even the largest of America has been on the job for almost 16 years in a far more distant corner of America:…

  • Which new energy storage technologies might outcompete lithium-ion in the 2020’s?

    Which new energy storage technologies might outcompete lithium-ion in the 2020’s?

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    Lithium is king of batteries, today. Plain and simple. That’s, for today … Wood Mackenzie reports that batteries made up 99 percent of [compound ] battery deployments at Q4 2018.  Technology dominance is a understatement. But nobody is ideal. Hence, lithium batteries — with its six major chemistry variants — have problems with the following…

  • California Proposes $100M in Energy Storage Incentives to Boost Wildfire Resiliency

    California Proposes $100M in Energy Storage Incentives to Boost Wildfire Resiliency

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    California regulators want to steer $100 million in state energy storage incentives to a new class of disadvantaged clients: people living in areas of the state in the highest risk of deadly wildfires.  The California Public Utilities Commission issued a proposed decision last week on the “equity funding ” inside the Self-Generation Incentive Program, the state’s…

  • Tesla has a new energy product called Megapack

    Tesla has a new energy product called Megapack

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    Tesla has launched a new utility-scale energy storage product called Megapack modeled after the giant battery system it deployed in South Australia as the company seeks to provide an alternative to natural gas “peaker” power plants. Megapack is the third and largest energy storage system offered by Tesla. The company also sells the residential Powerwall…

  • Eversource Wants to Back Up an Entire Rural Town With Batteries Large and Small

    Eversource Wants to Back Up an Entire Rural Town With Batteries Large and Small

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    New England utility Eversource wants to deploy energy storage to rear an outage-prone New Hampshire city, while saving customers money. The 18,070 inhabitants of Westmoreland rely upon a single radial power line to provide electricity during the forested, urban environment. Ice storms and heavy snowfall often knock that line down, making the area an outlier…

  • U.S. Storage Market Sets Power Capacity Record with Q1 Deployments

    U.S. Storage Market Sets Power Capacity Record with Q1 Deployments

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    The U.S. energy storage industry installed a record quantity of power capacity in the first quarter of 2019. The 148.8 megawatts of new grid storage capacity represented a 232% growth over Q1 2018, according to the most recent edition of the Energy Storage Monitor report created by Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables and the Energy…

  • Tesla Installs 7 Megawatt-Hour Battery for Emergency Power at a Japanese Railway

    Tesla Installs 7 Megawatt-Hour Battery for Emergency Power at a Japanese Railway

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    Tesla just installed its biggest energy storage project in Asia to date — and deploying the hardware required just two days. (Here’s a time lapse of this construct on Instagram.) According to Tesla, the 7 megawatt-hour installment in Osaka, Japan is meant to offer emergency backup power for a Kintetsu train line, with enough power…

  • AMS Breaks 2 Gigawatt-Hours in Grid Services

    AMS Breaks 2 Gigawatt-Hours in Grid Services

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    Image Credit: Advanced Microgrid Solutions The competition for the title of”world’s largest virtual power plant” has largely been concentrated on residential solar-battery systems, like those being deployed by contenders such as Australia’s AGL or Vermont’s Green Mountain Power.  But according to AMS, previously called Advanced Microgrid Solutions, the world’s biggest VPP is already up and…