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Kavya Balaraman

Kavya Balaraman is a freelance energy and climate journalist with nearly a decade of experience, and writes about the clean energy transition, growth of renewables, energy storage and green hydrogen.

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Articles written by Kavya Balaraman

Applications & Installations

Energy Vault starts building green hydrogen storage project Energy Vault has begun construction on a 293 MWh green hydrogen and battery storage facility within utility Pacific Gas & Electric’s service territory in northern California.

Kavya Balaraman

Feb 28, 2024

Applications & Installations

Survey highlights fire-detection, suppression issues in battery storage systems A new Clean Energy Associates (CEA) survey shows that 26% of battery storage systems have fire-detection and fire-suppression issues, while about 18% face challenges with thermal management systems.

Kavya Balaraman

Feb 16, 2024

Applications & Installations

Hydrogen plus battery storage could enable clean energy transition A new Stanford University report shows that the transition to clean energy could help many countries to reduce their annual energy costs by around 61%.

Kavya Balaraman

Feb 12, 2024

Markets & Policy

Nikola opens hydrogen refueling station for heavy-duty vehicles in California Nikola Corp. has opened its first hydrogen refueling station for heavy-duty vehicles in southern California. It says it aims to build a network of up to 60 such facilities over the next few years.

Kavya Balaraman

Feb 09, 2024

Applications & Installations

EV owners more likely to install rooftop solar Scientists at the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have analyzed a survey of 869 households in the San Francisco Bay area and have found that electric vehicle (EV) owners are more likely to install rooftop solar on their homes than other consumers.

Kavya Balaraman

Jan 15, 2024

Applications & Installations

Brenmiller Energy commissions thermal energy storage demonstration project Brenmiller Energy’s thermal energy storage demonstration system at the State University of New York uses crushed rocks to store energy from renewables or the grid.

Kavya Balaraman

Dec 19, 2023

Markets & Policy

Antora Energy receives $4 million grant to scale thermophotovoltaic technology Antora says its thermal batteries offer a cost-effective way to store energy and produce high-temperature industrial heat and electricity on demand

Kavya Balaraman

Nov 15, 2023

Applications & Installations

Dragonfly making cells with lithium hydroxide from recycled batteries Dragonfly Energy is using lithium hydroxide recovered from recycled batteries to manufacture battery cells, with Aqua Metals leading the way in recycling solutions for materials in the supply chains for energy storage and electric vehicles.

Kavya Balaraman

Sep 29, 2023

Applications & Installations

Hydrogen stations can avoid unplanned shutdowns with predictive models New research from the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) focuses on a specific model that uses data to reduce the frequency of unscheduled maintenance, while increasing the frequency of preventive maintenance.

Kavya Balaraman

Sep 21, 2023

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