US researchers have developed a supercapacitor technology that can be deposited onto plastic film to make flexible capacitors, and silicon die for in-package energy storage. Specific power delivery is higher than traditional ...
Tags: Supercapacitors, Consumer Electronics, Electrical, Electronics
The Government is to call for bids to share £55m for research into autonomous systems, robotics, and large scale energy storage. The cash is part of £600m towards the UK's scientific research infrastructure announced by the ...
Tags: Electronics, Robotics
The future of energy storage has taken root on an onion farm in southern California. Seeking to offset its electricity bills, Gills Onions in Oxnard has installed a flow battery. When electricity prices from the grid peak, the farm can tap ...
Tags: Flow Batteries, Resilient Microgrids, Consumer Electronics
Americans take electrical power for granted whenever they flip on a light switch. But the growing use of solar and wind power in the United States makes the on-demand delivery of electricity more challenging. A key problem is that the ...
Tags: electrical power, Electrical, Electronics
Power-One, Inc. and Panasonic Corporation have announced that they have entered into a strategic alliance to develop, produce and market energy storage systems for the residential and non-residential markets worldwide combining Power-One ...
A new survey conducted by IMS Research of more than 400 global photovoltaic (PV) inverter customers has revealed a rapidly growing need for energy storage in PV systems. Despite the infancy of the energy storage market, nearly one third ...
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A survey conducted by IMS Research of more than 400 global photovoltaic (PV) inverter customers has revealed a rapidly growing need for energy storage in PV systems. Despite the infancy of the energy storage market, nearly one third of the ...
Tags: IMS Research, photovoltaic, energy storage
High-performance graphene-based electrochemical capacitors that maintain excellent electrochemical attributes under high mechanical stress, have been developed by researchers at UCLA’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, the ...
Tags: graphene supercapitors, electrochemical capacitors, ECS
Japanese tech firm NEC is to make an agressive play for dominance of western telecommunications and energy storage markets, one of its executives has revealed to Computing. Power rangers: Fujitsu, Docomo and NEC form smartphone chip ...
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Pike Research forecasts the market for commercial building energy systems to grow from $3.9 billion in revenue in 2013 to more than $7.5 billion in 2022 in new report. The commercial buildings market is currently the largest source of ...
Tags: Energy Storage, Commercial Buildings, commercial buildings market
The IEEE ISSCC (International Solid State Circuits Conference), which runs this year from February 17-21 in San Francisco, is an important gathering for the electronic engineering industry. It is the world's show case for the best in ...
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Falling solar cell prices have been marginalizing concentrated solar power (CSP) products for years. But after the adoption of thermal energy storage (TES) using molten salt (which can increase the capacity factor of CSP) and using ...
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Silicon photonics firm Kotura Inc of Monterey Park, CA, USA, which designs and makes silicon photonics application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for the communications, computing, sensing and detection markets, says that, at its ...
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ISSCC 2013 - 60th Anniversary Held every year in February in San Francisco, the IEEE's International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) is the world showcase for innovative circuit design. This is the 60th conference, and year's ...
Tags: Circuits Conference, capacitors, inductors
LENZING, Austria — January 10, 2013 — Lenzing AG and NanoCarbons LLC, Fort Lauderdale (Florida, USA), will cooperate in the future to develop and explore the use of new activated carbons in electrode technology. This technology ...
Tags: Lenzing Partners, Nanocarbons LLC, Energy Storage Systems