Energy Storage

Distributed Energy Storage Market Sees its Second Startup Get in the Zero Down Game

March 5, 2014

Green Charge Networks raised $10 million to provide financing to commercial and industrial customers for customer-sited energy storage technology that uses smaller batteries and predictive...

Venture Capitalists: The Term “Cleanweb” Has Got to Go

March 1, 2014

Cleantech VC has clearly moved towards capital light, digitally enabled resource efficiency. But what to call it was recently debated in a panel that included Claremont Creek Ventures...

Navigant’s Predictions for Storage, Transportation, Distributed Systems

February 21, 2014

The demand for clean generation and transportation, as well as the IT systems and storage to back it up, could reach new highs this year.

Peter Fusaro: Developments in Energy Storage and the Microgrid

February 24, 2014

After many years of fits and starts, new energy storage technologies are approaching commercialization, enabling large-scale deployment of microgrids throughout the U.S.

DOE-Backed Distributed Storage Startup Receives First Angel Funding

December 20, 2013

Green Charge Networks received angel funding this week from Richard Lowenthal, founder and CTO of car charging network ChargePoint.

Is Clean Energy A Growing Threat to the Power Grid?

December 7, 2013

Intermittency adds stress to the grid, causing energy officials to worry about its stability as states rush to bring more clean energy online, according to a report.

SolarCity to Offer Energy Storage Systems

December 7, 2013

The California company is tapping batteries from Tesla Motors to offer businesses a combined solar and storage system.

New FERC Energy Storage Rule

November 26, 2013

FERC Order 792 adds energy storage as a power source that is eligible to connect to the grid and makes it eligible for the existing Fast Track process.

Breakthrough Discovery Enables Batteries to Self-Heal

November 23, 2013

Researchers at Stanford and the U.S. DOE have made the first battery electrode that heals itself, opening the door for batteries that last longer.

WSJ’s “Future of Energy” in brief

November 23, 2013

The future of biofuels; DOE commissions batteries that last 5X longer; keys reasons to get excited by rooftop solar; hydropower to expand by two-thirds.