Electricity Storage Association - "A non-profit trade association bringing electricity storage solutions to the power industry" links to a tutorial on Energy Storage Technologies
Energy Storage Council - Group of industries and developers to advocate and facilitate the deployment of energy storage technologies. Links to pages of 6 charter members and 2 newer members.
Energy Storage - history highlights thermal. From the University of Rochester District Energy Library.
Energy Storage for Power Systems, by A. Ter-Gazarian - Institute of Electrical Engineers page sells 244 page hardback book.
California Distributed Energy Resource Guide - Energy Storage and Uninterruptable Power Supply Systems. Covers batteries, flywheels, superconductors, capacitors, and compressed air.
"How Blackouts Work" from Howstuffworks - Links to "Big Blackouts in US History" and says, "the power grid . . . cannot store any power" Includes US maps.
Reliability Management and Oversight - Part of US DOE study shows (p. B-17) graph of reserve electricity prices moving between 0 and 750 dollars per MegaWatt-hour.
Energy Storage Unit Ensures Consistent Power Supply in TVA Service Area - Describes distributed superconducting magnetic energy storage (D-SMES) unit to control sags and surges in grid. Includes contacts.
Energy Storage - Wikipedia entry covers history and reasons, has links to related topics, considers your submissions and edits.
Fuel Cells, Photovoltaics, Dispersed Generation and Energy Storage - Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) committee show of 12 slides
Pumped storage for renewable energy - Google sci.energy group discussion compares pumped storage to Compressed Air Energy Storage, asks why the space cannot be used for nuke waste.
Principle of a hybrid Compressed Air and Supercapacitors Energy Storage system - with Maximum Efficiency Point Tracking. 5-author 8-page pdf of paper describes use of supercapacitors to increase CAES efficiency.
More on Energy Storage - College-level class notes include picture of pumped storage facility, comparison of energy densities, and the CAES heat problem.
Energy Storage - Covers "Why is energy storage important"? Compares methods of storage. Links to details.
Can Renewables Sustain Affluent Society? - Considers a few renewable energy sources, then addresses 'the storage problem'. Considers batteries, crushed rock, solar ponds, pumped hydro, hydrogen and thermochemical.
Electricity Storage and Renewables? - Transmission & Distribution consultant uses 19 pages to compare technologies and reasons. From the Energy Storage Association.
Nuclear Energy Belongs in the Technology Museum - says nukes are less needed because energy storage allows renewables.
$Windpower-Energy Storage$ - 17 message thread compares costs for pumped hydro, and batteries, including Vanadium Redox; in context of storage for wind or solar.
YA Hydrogen article - positive this time - 212 message thread includes energy storage topics with nuclear vs. Hydrogen and renewables
Cape Barren: Wind & Hydrogen - Tasmanian projects: wind farms, hydrogen for storage, and a redox battery.
A Chemist’s Plan to Save Planet Earth - Rick Smalley says (in interview) that more money should be spent on research into energy storage. [Discover]
Handbook of Energy Storage for Transmission or Distribution Applications - EPRI book advertisement. Includes abstract and chapter titles.
Integrated Distributed Generation and Energy Storage Concepts - book from EPRI. Page includes abstract, objective, approach, results; and ordering information.
Optimal Unit Commitment And Economic Dispatch Of Cogeneration Systems With A Storage (ResearchIndex) - high efficiency gets attention for cogeneration. Text may consider thermal storage with cogeneration.
Global Markets for Capacitors, Flywheels and SMES Systems - Emerging and Mature Technologies. Promotes report projecting market growth.
Personal Energy Sources - Research group of the Delft University of Technology, Nederlands, developing alternative embedded power sources. Includes project summary.
Graph - Shows system power ratings versus discharge time at rated power for several technologies. Includes several batteries, flywheels, Compressed Air Energy Storage, and pumped hydroelectric.
Energy Storage: Not Just R & D Nor Necessarily Expensive - Power Engineering magazine article compares chilled water storage(TES) and stationary sodium sulfur batteries.
Energy storage - 39-post Physics Forums discussion starts with "list all the ways energy can be stored".
Storage Device - Rocky Mountain Institute page links to three possible technologies for use in Hypercars(R)
Energy Storage - San Diego State University College of Engineering page includes equations and figures, and focuses on batteries for vehicles.
Distributed Energy and Energy Storage - CSIRO Energy Technology page includes lithium metal batteries, ultrabatteries, and supercapacitors. Links allow eMail to contacts for each project.
Energy Storage Systems - Research Program is part of the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability at DOE (United States of America).
Energy Storage: A Nontechnical Guide - Amazon.com page markets hardcover book with reviews and a sample page.
Stored Electrical Energy Emergency and Standby Power Systems - (NFPA 111) page links to preview and contents, markets full hardcopy ($28 USD)
Grid energy storage - Wikipedia entry.
Alternative Energy Storage Surprises - Senior Research Analyst writes of first-time costs, power density, and energy density.
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