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B2U Storage Solutions: Used EV batteries store solar power on a grid scale

  • Canary Media
  • English
  • Energy storage is the fastest-growing sector of the U.S. energy industry, expanding faster than solar, wind, or other older types of power plants. The expansion of battery production capacity is pushing down prices and making the technology more competitive over time. Second-life batteries promise even lower costs - and B2U is making money on them.

Woodside researches solar thermal technology together with US start-up Heliogen

  • O&G Links
  • English
  • Under the joint commercialization agreement, the companies will seek to establish a framework for the development of additional potential renewable energy projects, including the replication and scaling of Heliogen's modular, AI-powered concentrated solar array to meet Woodside's energy needs at its global locations.

Tesla attacks German electricity market with startup Octopus Energy

  • Energiefirmen.de
  • German
  • The German subsidiary of the British start-up Octopus Energy offers the new tariff. However, a prerequisite for using the offer is that a photovoltaic system and a Tesla Powerwall, i.e. the Tesla battery storage system, are installed at the consumer's premises. Customers initially supply themselves via the combination of solar system and Powerwall.
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Why some households are opting for a battery-only strategy

  • One Step off the Grid
  • English
  • Robin's journey to installing a Tesla Powerwall battery in his home, despite not having solar on the roof, began by accident. For the engineer, whose old house roof can't accommodate a solar array, the promise of Australian start-up iO Energy to cut his electricity bill by investing in a deeply discounted home battery was too tempting.

Solar battery network startup RedEarth raises $12 million and aims for ASX IPO

  • Startup Daily
  • English
  • Late last year, RedEarth launched its Personal Power Plant (PPP). It is part of plans to develop a network of interconnected solar batteries to create a self-sustaining community power plant. The company has developed its own integrated technology package and has built up a network of 1,000 systems that have been tested in practice.

BP buys energy startup Blueprint Power in latest diversification move

  • Axios
  • English
  • The acquisition of the three-year-old New Yorke start-up is the latest move by BP as part of its diversification into low-carbon areas, although oil and gas remain the dominant businesses for now. Blueprint provides data services that increase the commercial incentive for building owners to become greener through renewable energy, efficiency and storage

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