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If the U.S. converts to a carbon-free grid, millions of homeowners may want to generate and store their own solar power. Companies are already jockeying over that potentially massive market — and the commercial contest revolves around safety. Tesla and LG Chem currently dominate the U.S. home battery market. Both use the lithium-nickel-manganese-cobalt-oxide (NMC) chemistry favored by the electric vehicle industry. In cars, the goal is to pack as much energy into as little space as po...

Published: 5 Feb 2021, 12:22 By: Image: Powin Energy. Energy storage system integrator Powin Energy has gained equity investment which the company claimed will allow it to significantly improve its integrated software and hardware platform. The Oregon-headquartered company has also sold its controlling interest to the two investment groups involved, Trilantic North America and Energy Impact Partners and obtained equity funding which a company representative told Energy-Storage.ne...

Energy storage startup Powin Energy has raised more than $100 million in equity investment to compete with better-funded rivals in the large-scale grid battery market. Powin buys battery cells and hooks them up with proprietary software controls and ancillary equipment to produce full-fledged power plants. It competes in the upper echelons of the energy storage integration market with the likes of Tesla, Fluence and Wärtsilä. But those competitors are storage businesses nestled within bi...