Andrea Pedretti designed Energy Vault’s Gravity Energy Storage Solution (GESS), which can provide long-duration storage for renewable energy without the need for lithium-ion batteries. The system uses surplus green energy from the grid to lift heavy blocks high into the air, and lowers them to generate electricity when it’s needed. If incorporated into tall buildings,...

Zanskar Geothermal & Minerals has taken over the ownership of Lightning Dock, New Mexico’s first and only commercially sized geothermal power generation plant, from Cyrq Energy. As the most easterly geothermal energy facility in the US, this purchase also enhances Zanskar’s objective of growing the renewable geothermal energy resource in the western region of the...

Electric grids powered by renewables like wind and solar energy are less vulnerable to blackouts, according to a new study. The findings answer a major worry about so-called weather-dependent sources of renewable energy that has driven backlash to these technologies in some areas.“The impacts of fluctuating renewable energy sources (RESs) have been widely debated throughout...