Energy Storage News update 9/1

Energy companies seek electricity storage San Francisco Chronicle Technology developers are shuttling between caves and mountaintops to build a market for utilities set to attract $25 billion in annual investment within a decade. To store surplus electricity from power plants, they're trying to squeeze air into salt ...

Energy Independence and Electricity Storage Energy Collective ... States to achieve energy independence by 2020. That plan is explained in a little more detail in a document entitled “A Romney Plan for A Stronger Middle Class: Energy Independence”, which was released earlier this week by the Romney-Ryan campaign.

Weapons Plant Security Issues Are Described in US Audit New York Times The government skimped on security hardware before the storage building was finished in 2008, the report said, and the National Nuclear Security Agency, a part of the Energy Department formed to handle weapons security after a previous scandal, told ...

Energy infrastructure undergoing major overhaul in Germany Hydrogen Fuel News Researchers from the ZSW Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research have been working to overcome the issue of energy storage since Germany decided to abandon nuclear power. This move represents the largest energy infrastructure overhaul the ...