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Forbes and BP on statistics of world energy consumption

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2022/07/04/wind-and-solar-provided-a-record-10-of-the-worlds-power-in-2021/ From BP: https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/energy-economics/statistical-review-of-world-energy.html Robert Rapier5-7 minutes Kern County, CA – March 23: LADWPs Pine Tree Wind Farm and Solar Power Plant in the Tehachapi … [+] Mountains Tehachapi Mountains on Tuesday, March 23, 2021 in Kern County, CA.(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Last week […]

Economic Times on Show cause notice to EV manufacturers on Battery fires

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/renewables/centre-sends-show-cause-notices-to-ola-electric-okinawa-others-on-ev-fires/articleshow/92671430.cms Centre sends show cause notices to Ola Electric, Okinawa, others on EV fires  4-5 minutes Synopsis The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), which was earlier tasked with investigating electric two-wheeler fire incidents by the Road Transport and Highways Ministry, also found serious defects in the EV two-wheeler batteries. The Bureau of Indian Standards […]

Adreesh Ghoshal in the Medium on how batteries catch fire

Adreesh Ghoshal’s rather well researched article on why batteries catch fire on Medium is being reposted in full. https://adreesh-ghoshal.medium.com/how-lithium-ion-batteries-in-evs-catch-fire-9d166c5b3af1 Although rare, Lithium-ion batteries do tend to catch fire. After investigations into a number of battery-related fires, some of the reasons have been identified. One of the most important, called thermal runaway, is when the entire […]

David Roberts in Vox – how cheap does energy storage need to be to get to full deployment in the Solar and Wind sector?

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/8/9/20767886/renewable-energy-storage-cost-electricity Getting to 100% renewables requires cheap energy storage. But how cheap? David Roberts@drvolts17-21 minutes This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. This piece was originally published in August and has been lightly updated. One of the most […]

Water batteries in Switzerland have been around for a while

https://interestingengineering.com/switzerlands-water-battery-operational? ” With the world focused on harnessing its energy from renewables, there is also the need to store this energy which is produced intermittently depending on weather conditions and the time of the day.  While dense battery packs are a solution to this problem, these storage devices also need minerals like nickel, cobalt, and lithium, […]

Sand batteries in Finland and Mercom on VC interest in Energy storage

https://www.energytech.com/energy-storage/article/21215334/corporate-investment-in-battery-storage-jumped-290-last-year-per-mercom-report “Corporations are betting on a energy transition future full of battery storage, investing nearly $9 billion in that premise around the world in 2021, according to the new report from Mercom Capital Group. Mercom Capital tracks funding, mergers and acquisitions in battery storage, smart grid and energy efficiency sectors. Overall, global investment in those […]

JMK research on Grid scale electricity storage and Mercom magazine on solar energy

http://voltq.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Evolution-of-grid-scale-ESS-tenders-in-India-JMK-Research.pdf Evolution of grid scale electricity storage in the grid has been well researched by the team at JMK research. http://voltq.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Mercom-India-Clean-Energy-Magazine-Jun-2022.pdf Mercom India clean energy magazine explains all manner of solar PV technology.

Ethics in battery science and materials properties – QuantumScape and Scorpion Capital

In 1883, Thomas Edison warned that chasing the perfect battery is a fool’s journey: “a catchpenny, a sensation, a mechanism for swindling the public by stock companies,” he wrote. Working on the latest, greatest battery brings out a man’s “latent capacity for lying.”This is true to some extent – the amount of materials improvements that […]

Niti Aayog on Electric 2W penetration by 2024

http://voltq.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/ForecastingPenetration-ofElectric2W_28-06.pdf From Inc42: Government think tank NITI Aayog has said that the shift to electric mobility, particularly in the two-wheeler segment, may happen faster than anticipated.  In an ‘optimistic scenario’, there will be 100% penetration of electric two-wheelers in the country by the financial year 2026-27 (FY27), a report released by NITI Aayog and Technology […]