Batteries
Chart: The remarkable rise of California’s grid battery capacity
In 2020, California had 500 megawatts of grid battery storage. Now, just three years later, it has over 5,000 megawatts.
Batteries
Long-duration energy storage
Long-duration storage gets big boost with $325M from DOE
The department selected nine proposals with the goal of accelerating the adoption of emerging technologies, which could be key to cleaning up the grid.
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Batteries
Looking for some home energy storage? You’ve never had so many choices
The once-tiny residential battery market is attracting dozens of new entrants, including recognizable consumer brands like Anker, Duracell and Energizer. -
Electric vehicles
What do EVs have to do with the autoworker strike? A lot, it turns out
Striking UAW members want to ensure that billions in EV investments translate into good-paying union jobs.
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Long-duration energy storage
Sacramento utility rolls out its first long-duration grid batteries
The municipal utility is tapping flow batteries from ESS for on-demand clean power. The project, ESS’ biggest, will provide an early test of the tech’s potential. -
Batteries
A big battery is replacing this old Massachusetts fossil power plant
Thanks to a state program incentivizing cleaner peak power, a developer is building a 45 MW grid battery at the site of a fossil power plant shut down in 2022.
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Clean energy manufacturing
Another US EV-battery recycler just raised a massive funding round
Ascend Elements attracted $542 million in investment to make cathodes from spent EV batteries, just a week after Redwood Materials raised $1 billion.
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Long-duration energy storage
Eos wins $400M DOE loan guarantee to build longer-lasting batteries
Long-duration energy storage is a tough business, but it's vital to decarbonizing the grid. Eos thinks its zinc-based batteries are the best candidate for the job. -
Energy storage
Texas hooked up its first virtual power plants to help the grid
Select customers now have the power to participate in Texas energy markets with their own devices — and to get paid for doing so. -
Recycling renewables
Redwood Materials lands $1B to boost its battery recycling efforts
The startup founded by Tesla alum JB Straubel wants to spend $7 billion on recycling to supply a U.S. battery industry now dependent on China. -
Batteries
Vermont’s biggest utility dramatically expands home battery subsidies
Since 2015, Vermont's Green Mountain Power has helped a limited number of customers install home batteries each year. Now the program cap is gone.
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