Quidnet Energy has been selected to receive $10 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). The funding is part of the ARPA-E Seeding ...

Pumped storage hydropower is the greenest renewable energy technology for large-scale energy storage, a new study suggests. Researchers with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory said closed-loop ...

The FINANCIAL — With more European countries harnessing their hydropower resources to stabilize their transmission grids and support greater alternative energy production, GE Energy’s Power Conversion ...

As the global energy transition accelerates, the need for reliable, scalable and cost-effective energy storage solutions has never been greater. Stationary energy storage technologies broadly fall ...

Texas-based CPS Energy, the largest municipally owned electric and natural gas company in the U.S., has entered into a 15-year commercial agreement to explore installing up to 15 MW of geomechanical ...

These low-tech systems offer cheap, long-duration storage with minimal degradation, using abundant materials and basic physics rather than complex chemistry.

Pumped storage can play a major role as the country addresses its rapidly growing needs for storage capacity and carbon-free power. Pumped storage hydroelectric projects have been providing valuable ...

Researchers from China's Harbin Institute of Technology proposed to combine pumped hydro storage systems with compressed air energy storage (CAES) technology in an attempt to address a well-known ...

Journalist Robert Kunzig explains how an old technology could complement wind and solar installations to decarbonize the electric grid. However, big upfront costs and thorny land-use issues would ...

Two different studies have highlighted the potential and challenges of low-head pumped hydro storage (PHS), which has so far never been implemented in real projects. Different main areas were ...

Our power grid is becoming more distributed and more renewable than ever. Energy storage is a critical technology component to reducing our dependence on fossil fuels and building a low-carbon future.