Published: 22 Feb 2021, 09:25
By:
Andy Colthorpe
GELI s new owner since the end of 2020 is vertically-integrated solar PV company Q CELLS. Image: Q CELLS via Facebook.
Battery storage systems can deliver multiple services and provide customers and sites with backup power, but their value in doing so remains largely dependent on “highly sophisticated” software.
Dan Loflin, CEO of specialist software company Growing Energy Labs Inc (GELI) and Dr Ryan Wartena, the company’s VP of strategy, spoke to
California-headquartered GELI was notable in the industry for being one of the few pure-play software companies in the energy storage space, focusing on the commercial and industrial (C&I) market. Their value proposition largely included allowing C&I entities to lower energy costs by reducing peak demand and therefore the high proportion of electricity costs they have to pay to their electricity suppliers in the form of monthly demand charges, while maximising solar
There has been growing uptake in battery energy storage in Midwestern US states that have traditionally depended on burning coal for electricity, with some “very big projects planned,” an analyst has said.
The U.S. military has a checkered past when it comes to doing experiments on its soldiers, so any announcement about new advances in “reprogramming cells” in soldiers to promote the faster healing of wounds should rightfully be met with caution … especially when the headlines refer to turning soldiers into “Wolverine” – the X-Men character with a mutant healing factor that regenerates damaged or destroyed tissues. Well, that’s what the U.S. Air Force is seriously researching technology that could heal wounds more than five times faster than the human body can heal naturally. Does it involve adamantium?
“There are amazing opportunities in the United States, that you don’t see in the rest of the world, to humanize science and meet critical needs in medicine. We have the resources to do this, and it is our obligation to take full advantage of them. Thanks to the Air Force’s help, I was able to acquire the tools I need to advance my research into cellular reprogram
By:
Andy Colthorpe
Last year, the UK’s energy storage industry overcame many of its early challenges and became more comfortable with the point where technical capabilities and market opportunities intersect, according to Tony Gannon, head of project management at Scottish Power.
Gannon spoke yesterday at a webinar hosted by Solar Media Market Research, on ‘Trends and opportunities in UK and Ireland battery storage,’ where analyst Lauren Cook offered some key statistics and insights into the rapidly growing markets in both regions, including the UK’s pipeline of 14GW of projects at various stages of development and Ireland’s 2.7GW pipeline.