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The U.S. Battery Market is on Track For Best Year

U.S. battery installations are off to a hot start in 2024 (Canary Media)

Storage installations – utility-scale, home, and commercial projects — grew 84 percent in Q1. Grid battery installations grew even faster.

Dan McCarthy

The U.S. battery boom is showing no signs of slowing down. In fact, the sector […]

Can An Electric Vehicle Actually Last for 430,000 Miles on its First and Only Battery?

Tesla Model S, photo by Damian B Oh. CC-BY-SA 4.0. (https://bit.ly/GETTeslaModelS)

George Harvey

How long will and electric car last? To find the answer, we had to wait for old electric vehicles. Now, however, we are finding more and more old EVs, and the questions are getting answered.

In the past, […]

Iron Edison – Liquidation Sale

Dear Friends of Iron Edison,

We are in the process of liquidating our inventory. This means we are offering you batteries below our wholesale cost. The list below describes if the batteries are new or used and the prices are marked to reflect this. We also have some inverters and solar charge controllers. Please be […]

Will the New Carbon Battery Technology Replace Lithium for Energy Storage Next?

Different types of batteries have been available over the years. This is a lead-acid battery. (Courtesy photos)

Chris Milner

Battery storage is the fastest growing industry in the United States, with sales expected to exceed $50 billion by 2028. Grid instability, rising costs of electricity, and politics are the driving forces […]

Renewables and Energy Storage Have Arrived, Offering Consumers Significant Savings

Renewable energy power plants – photovoltaics, wind turbine farm and battery container. 3D rendering. (AdobeStock_248626760/malp)

Jonathan Dowds

We all know that renewable energy is the future. But recently something interesting happened: the future arrived.

It’s not all the way here – we are still getting far too much energy from […]

Battery System Helping Off-Grid Installations

Dual pole mounted solar arrays and a beautiful Central Vermont backdrop. The mini split heat pumps in this home keep this array hard at work.

George Harvey

Without doubt, there are still some among us who think of off-grid living, with solar electricity, in terms of very small and very primitive […]

Renewables Survive Hurricane Ian!

Beating a Hurricane with Solar and Batteries!

The community of Babcock Ranch, just outside of Fort Myers, FL, never lost power when hurrcane Ian deevasted the area. (FPL)

George Harvey

The sun doesn’t always shine, but so what?

Hurricane Ian didn’t prevent solar power and batteries from providing electricity 24/7 […]

Tesla Solar Roof withstands 155 mph winds, Powerwall survives hours-long underwater ordeal

By Simon Alvarez

Tesla products like the company’s electric vehicles are not just known for their sleek looks and bleeding-edge tech — they are also known for their durability. This is one of the reasons why Tesla’s cars like the Model 3 and Model Y have protected occupants from otherwise serious accidents for years.

But […]

Zinc8 Decouples the Linkage Between Energy and Power

Zinc8 engineer working in the company’s research facility in Vancouver, BC. (Courtesy images: Zinc8)

George Harvey

There are many kinds of electric batteries. Given the needs for energy storage that exist today and will predictably come up in the future, it should not be at all surprising that many battery designs […]

No Need to Worry About Lithium

An ocean full of lithium (Silas Baisch, Unsplash)

George Harvey

As Green Energy Times publishes about the things we need to save the planet, we often cover batteries. Whether they be for grid energy storage, household resilience, or electric vehicles, the need for batteries is real. And right now, […]