Stealthy storage contender Form Energy reveals secret ... - Canary …
WEBJul 23, 2021 · Stealthy storage contender Form Energy reveals secret formula: Iron and air. And it raised another $ 200 million to get to market. Form Energy finally lifted the veil of secrecy over its technology that purports to store clean electricity for days on end. The startup revealed Thursday that it is building iron-air batteries, a technology that ...
Bankrupt EV bus-maker Proterra finds buyers for its… | Canary Media
WEBNov 14, 2023 · Proterra, the leading electric bus-maker in the U.S. before it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in August, has found buyers for its bus-manufacturing, battery and electric-drivetrain businesses.. Now the question is whether the company’s U.S.-based factories, once celebrated by the Biden administration as a promising domestic contender in a field dominated by Chinese and European ...
Nevada solar-plus-storage project gets green light to… | Canary …
WEBAug 30, 2024 · In the vast desert northeast of Las Vegas, a new solar installation will soon be assembled atop an ancient lake bed. The Dry Lake East Energy Center, a 200-megawatt solar installation with 600 megawatts of on-site battery storage, was cleared to begin construction this week by the Bureau of Land Management.. In planning documents, Boulevard Associates LLC, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy ...
EV battery recycling is costly. These 5 startups could ... - Canary …
WEBJun 13, 2022 · Solarcycle is proud to support Canary Media’s Recycling Renewables series. Solarcycle offers solar asset owners a low-cost, eco-friendly, comprehensive process for retiring solar systems. We pull out valuable metals such as silver, silicon and aluminum and have the technology to recycle 95% of panels currently in use.
Puerto Rico extended a key rooftop solar policy. Then… | Canary …
WEBAug 1, 2024 · The oversight board insists that it supports net metering, rooftop solar, and Puerto Rico’s broader efforts to achieve 100 percent renewables. On its website, the FOMB says that invalidating Act 10 won’t change the current net-metering program or prevent new customers from enrolling. Instead, it will create space “ for an honest dialogue based on facts and data” by allowing the Energy ...
A small modular nuclear reactor just got - Canary Media
WEBJan 23, 2023 · NuScale Power, a pioneer in small nuclear reactors, cleared the ultimate U.S. regulatory hurdle in civilian advanced nuclear last week — and in doing so provided some hope for the long-heralded nuclear renaissance.. In a historic ruling, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission certified the design of NuScale’s 50-megawatt power module, the first small modular reactor and just the seventh reactor ...
The biggest solar-plus-storage project in the - Canary Media
WEBJan 25, 2024 · The batteries will be used for a variety of applications, including bulk storage to provide firm power through the evening, as well as other grid services. “ A project like this is a critical energy resource to help grid operators and generators manage an ever-changing system,” Bergland said. “ These projects can be used to balance and support the grid in the middle of the day or provide ...
Chart: Lithium prices are through the roof this year
WEBMay 6, 2022 · Prices for 2010–2021 are annual averages from the U.S. Geological Survey. Price for 2022 is from S&P Global Commodity Insights on May 4, 2022. Chart: Canary Media Source: U.S. Geological Survey Download image. The key thing to remember is that prices reflect current supply and demand, not the actual supply of lithium in the world.
Industrial heat startup Rondo to open world’s largest… | Canary …
WEBJun 27, 2023 · The Bay Area startup already can produce 2. 4 gigawatt-hours of its “ heat batteries” per year at a facility in Thailand owned by Siam Cement Group. That factory will now expand over the next few years to produce 90 gigawatt-hours of the batteries per year, the companies said Monday, though they did not specify an exact completion date.
Understanding the transmission bottleneck - Canary Media
WEBMay 4, 2023 · In this episode, Shayle and Rob talk through the three major challenges of transmission: congestion, interconnection and buildout. And Rob explains how we’ve built out transmission in the past with efforts such as ERCOT ’s Competitive Renewable Energy Zones and MISO ’s Multi-Value Projects. They also cover topics including: The history of ...