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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Energy Storage Update 1/23/2013

Battery & Energy Storage Problems Everywhere (Just Ask Boeing!)
Energy Collective (blog)
After a prolonged development program and costly production delays, Boeing started delivering its latest state-of-the-art airplane just 15 months ago, three years behind schedule. Although the company has a lucrative backlog of nearly 800 787s on order ...http://theenergycollective.com/cleantech-blog-neal-dikeman-and-richard-stuebi-et-al/175091/batteries-energy-storage-problems-just-ask-boeing

What's Holding Energy Tech Back? The Infernal Battery

TIME - 
WASHINGTON (AP) — As 21st century technology strains to become ever faster, cleaner and cheaper, an invention from more than 200 years ago keeps holding it back. It's why electric cars aren't clogging the roads and why Boeing's new ultra-efficient 787 ...

Boeing 787 battery debacle: lessons for clean energy

Christian Science Monitor -
Boeing (NYSE: BA) may soon be on the verge of renaming its new 787 the Nightmareliner… Skip to next paragraph. Cleantech Blog. A premier site for commentary on clean tech, energy, and the green economy, Cleantech Blog is edited by longtime ...

The investigations launched on Boeings (BA) Dreamliner by regulators on both ...

Seeking Alpha -
The investigations launched on Boeing's (BA) Dreamliner by regulators on both sides of the world center on two distinctly different searches. Depending on how it works out, the results could have a resounding effect on the company. Japanese regulators are ...

Chinese Battery Maker Goes to Exotic Extremes to Prove the Safety of its Packs

PluginCars.com - 
In a video posted on its website, Chinese battery maker Sinopoly fired several rounds from a handgun into one of its lithium ion packs. Boeing's 787 Dreamliner was grounded last week after an All Nippon Airways plane experienced “thermal runaway” in its ...

Supercapacitors to the rescue

Energy Harvesting Journal -
They call it the Bad Dreamliner because the new Boeing jet has been beset with electrical problems. When new, the Airbus A380 also had electrical problems but they were caught at an early stage. This time it has been more dramatic. In one instance a fire ...

Eight Breakout Stocks In Energy Storage
Seeking Alpha
For several years, news in the energy storage sector has been dominated by happy talk stories about lithium-ion batteries that over-hyped performance and fueled flights of imaginative fancy while downplaying technical limitations, system costs and ...http://seekingalpha.com/article/1124121-8-breakout-stocks-in-energy-storage?source=google_news
Toronto Hydro introduces urban community energy storage project
Electric Light & Power
CES differs from other energy storage systems installed at a transmission or distribution station. Those at a station level provide system support to the station, whereas CES systems are installed at the customer level, offering more direct benefit in ...http://www.elp.com/articles/2013/01/toronto-hydro-introduces-urban-community-energy-storage-project0.html
Dynapower commissioned over 50MW of energy storage inverters
Windtech International
Dynapower Company has commissioned over 50MW of grid tied bi-directional energy storage inverters in December 2012. The bi-directional inverters delivered from their Energy Management Systems group, are being used by utilities and integrators in a ...http://www.windtech-international.com/company-news/dynapower-commissioned-over-50mw-of-energy-storage-inverters
NanoMarkets: Market for energy storage to accompany solar to reach USD 2 ...
solarserver.com
NanoMarkets LLC (Glen Allen, Virginia, US) has released a new report which predicts that the market for energy storage solutions to accompany solar photovoltaic (PV) generation will reach almost USD 2 billion in revenues by 2018. "Solar Storage Markets ...http://www.solarserver.com/solar-magazine/solar-news/current/2013/kw04/nanomarkets-market-for-energy-storage-to-accompany-solar-to-reach-usd-2-billion-by-2018.htm
 lIn Energy Storage, The Numbers Don't Add Up – Yet Pike Research
If you take a close look at Duke Energy's Rankin Avenue Retail substation in Mount Holly, North Carolina, you'll notice a few pieces of equipment that you ...
www.pikeresearch.com/.../in-energy-storage-the-numbers-don...

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