Your gasoline car’s tank and your electric car’s battery are energy storage devices. The hydropower lake and the mountains of coal waiting to be burned in a power plant are sort of energy storage ...

For the global energy transition to succeed, the energy storage industry will have to develop cheap, efficient, and reliable ways to store renewable energy. Lithium-ion batteries currently dominate ...

Energy innovators around the world plan to harvest more power from abandoned coal mines, but not by digging up dirty deposits. Instead, this concept utilizes gravity and renewable energy to transform ...

Energy Vault's EVu concept is a superstructure tower design, which improves unit economics and enables GESS integration into tall building. SOM will work on systems for actual projects with customer ...

A UK company plans to build a full-scale energy storage project in a former mine shaft in mainland Europe. And the initiative in the Czech Republic has moved a step closer after securing support led ...

A global race is underway to find long-term energy storage solutions, with venture capital investing heavily in new technologies beyond the current lithium-ion battery dominance. Researchers at the ...

Modern devices, from fitness trackers and smart garments to Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, require compact and sustainable ...

An international research team has designed a residential solar-plus-storage system based on gravity. The system was built with a solar power generator, a bulk booster charge controller, an inverter, ...

Scientists could be wrong about dark energy. But they’re right about gravity, a new study suggests. Dark energy, the mysterious phenomenon that causes the expansion of the cosmos to accelerate, is ...