Energy Storage News

The 1.5mw ICAES system is operating at SustainX headquarters ... It takes electricity from the grid ... to drive a motor that compresses air and stores it isothermally ... To do so it captures the heat produced during compression, traps it in water, and stores the warmed air-water mixture in pipes. When electricity is needed back on the grid, the process reverses and the air expands, driving a generator.

Grid-tied solar installations will comprise 675 MW, or nearly 95% of the combined 711 MW market, while off-grid applications including telecom power claim the remaining 5%. While the off-grid market enjoys higher profit margins, the much larger addressable market for grid-tied systems means they dominate the solar and energy storage market.

IDS Industries announced today the appointment of Scott Plantinga, current Chief Operating Officer and Vice Chairman, to the position of Chief Executive Officer.

DNV KEMA Energy & Sustainability has debuted a new strategic tool, ES-GRID, to quantify the value of distributed energy storage on distribution systems.

SunVault Energy, Inc. (SVLT) (raised) $625K to accelerate three solar energy generation and storage projects in Alberta, Canada.

The program for the inaugural Renewable Energy Storage Summit was announced today with leading system operators, utilities, wind developers and investors featured. The Summit takes place October 7^th, co-located and supported by CanWEA 2013 - Canada's largest wind energy conference.

Sustainable Energy Technologies will introduce a bi-directional smart grid inverter at the Renewable Energy 2013 Exhibition in Tokyo Japan.  Bi-direx is a  designed specifically to connect low voltage battery and fuel cell systems to the power grid with very high conversion efficiencies.

ZBB Energy announced that Anhui Meineng Store Energy System has received third-party certification for the ZBB EnerStore® advanced flow battery as meeting the requirements of Standard GBZ2.1-2007 of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) for use in the People's Republic of China.

Beacon Power ... has hired Jim Brown as its Chief Commercial Officer.  Mr. Brown brings over 20 years of international energy industry experience, most recently as Executive VP of Business Development and President of Global Utility Systems at solar industry leader First Solar.

Electrovaya ... announced additions to its senior management team to meet the growing demand in the emerging markets of energy storage and mobile energy ... Dr. Ravi Gopal as its new Vice President, Engineering; Dr. Rajshekar Das Gupta, as its Vice President of Business Development; and Rakesh Bhola as Vice President, Technology.

IDS Industries announced today the conclusion of a $300,000 promissory note with JMJ Financial with an initial tranche of $55,000 funded on June 19, 2013.  The company intends to deploy proceeds in the market introduction of its proprietary integrated battery management system and charge controller for use with renewable energy tied advanced storage systems.

ZBB has also entered into a development agreement with an undisclosed offshore partner to develop the design of a new 500 kWh zinc bromide flow battery platform, providing less cost per kWh in markets requiring larger systems, such as utilities, grid connected microgrids and remote microgrids.

IDS Industries (OTCQB: IDST) today announced receipt of two purchase orders for its Battery Management and Charge Controller System (BMSCC) optimized for use with today's advanced energy storage configurations

Under its Strategic Alliance Agreement ... Graphene Labs ... will process graphite samples from Lomiko's Quatre Milles property into graphene. The Research Foundation, through Stony Brook University's Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center (AERTC) and the Center for Advanced Sensor Technology (Sensor CAT), will then examine the most efficient methods of using this graphene for energy storage applications.

ZBB Collaborates With Facility Gateway Corporation to Deliver Commercial-scale Solution for Distributed Storage With Onsite Renewables.

IDS Solar Technologies ... announced the completion of its circuit board design for its feature-rich integrated battery management and charge controller system.

Active Power ... filed a universal shelf registration statement on Form S-3 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). The shelf registration statement is designed to provide the Company with greater flexibility to take advantage of financing and other business opportunities when and if such opportunities arise, subject to market conditions and the capital requirements of the Company.

Active Power ... entered into a partnership agreement with Digital China Information Service Company Limited (DCITS), China's No. 1 IT solutions distribution and system integration firm ... DCITS will market and sell Active Power's CleanSource® UPS and CleanSource® High Density UPS products and PowerHouse™ products through its field sales offices in 19 of 22 mainland provinces in China as well as key geographies in the greater Asian market.

Deeya Energy ... announced that Ravi Sharma, a member of the global Board of Directors, has been named the Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors.

ZBB Energy ... has shipped the previously announced order from Pacific Beachcomber to supply a 2,000 kWh ZBB EnerStore™ System, including 40 ZBB EnerStore™ modules, for the luxury eco-resort, The Brando project in French Polynesia.

Nesscap Energy ... reported its financial results for the three months and year ended December 31, 2012. Revenues for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2012 were $3.2 million compared to $2.8 million for the same period one year ago, representing an increase of 17%.

ZBB ... announced today that Export-Import Bank of the United States will guarantee working capital loans ... to finance the export of ZBB's energy power control and storage systems ($1.14M).

EasyStreet^® Online Services has ordered several, additional environmentally friendly VYCON VDC-XE flywheel systems to protect its state-of-the-art data center, deploying a total of approximately 800kW of clean energy storage.