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Battery-stored solar powers Kingfisher's first 'net-zero' energy store

Home improvement retail giant Kingfisher has unveiled its first UK net-zero energy store, which brings together solar panels, battery storage and air source ... insulation and low-flow taps. The B&Q ... read more

Kingfisher, J. M. Smucker Supercharge Renewable Energy Ambitions

Kingfisher plc, the international home improvement company, has unveiled plans to install energy storage batteries at B&Q’s Swindon ... by the solar panels at the site is exported back to the grid as ... read more

Five clever ways to cut your DC's electric bill

Along with helping trim a DC's electric bill, solar panels can generate extra savings when a facility hooks them up to industrial batteries that store backup power ... are helping managers minimize ... read more

Solar-powered plane grounded nine months in Hawaii by battery damage

(Reuters) - A solar-powered plane halfway through an attempt to ... Additional time is needed to repair the plane’s four batteries, which store energy from the sun during daylight hours to keep the ... read more

DC proponents look to home and data centres for energy efficiency

One component will be common to all microgrids - a battery. Moixa Technology’s Maslow is one example of how home microgrids could develop around the ability to store electrical ... battery in Maslow ... read more

Kingfisher to install battery storage at B&Q distribution centre

Home improvement retail giant Kingfisher has announced (30 July) that it will install energy storage facilities at one of its B&Q distribution ... zero energy Screwfix store in Peterborough, which ... read more

Elon Musk's giant battery is ready for testing in Australia

Musk’s battery system is designed to overcome one of the main obstacles to greater reliance on renewable power sources — they can store up power produced while ... five-year plan Windsor's ... read more

Big Picture: A Peek at the Future

... discussion on sustainable energy for DCs. Unlike solar, wind energy is typically fed into the grid from wind farms. But interest is developing in local wind power collection that is stored in ... read more

Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Award Winners

2nd Place: We Miss Pluto - a Helium-3 Excavator (HEX) and lunar rover designed to extract helium-3from the lunar regolith, store it, and ready it for transportation back to Earth. 3rd Place: MAST - A ... read more

A solar cell that stores its own power: World's first 'solar battery' runs on light and air

Is it a solar cell? Or a rechargeable battery? Actually, the patent-pending device invented at The Ohio State University is both: the world's first solar battery ... and then use a cheap battery to ... read more

REI's newest distribution center is a model of sustainability

and complements REI's existing DCs in Sumner ... like to store power onsite using banks of batteries. The design teams originally calculated that four megawatts would be needed to power the building. ... read more