Energy Storage Update 5/25

US Senators Introduce Bill for Energy-Storage Tax Incentives Businessweek “Building out more energy storage will increase the amount of renewable power on the grid, reduce our country's need for new power plants and make the U.S. energy system more reliable,” Wyden said in the statement. “With all of the attention given to ...http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-05-24/u-dot-s-dot-senators-introduce-bill-for-energy-storage-tax-incentives

Smart grid energy storage innovation: New AES storage "operating system" Smart Grid News Quick Take: AES has announced a new "operating system" for storage. The announcement points to the future of energy storage in at least two ways. First, the idea of a platform or an operating system for storage. Or, put another way, standards for ...http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-05-24/u-dot-s-dot-senators-introduce-bill-for-energy-storage-tax-incentives

Plug-and-Play Grid Energy Storage Thanks to 1Energy's Software Energy Collective energy storage Why do batteries for the grid cost so much more, on a per-kilowatt-hour basis, than batteries for laptops, or even for electric vehicles? It's not the cost of the battery technologies themselves, or even necessarily what grid customers ...http://theenergycollective.com/jeffstjohn/228866/grid-energy-storage-software

Posted by: Geoffrey Styles Energy Collective Energy storage is often portrayed as the killer app for overcoming the intermittency of renewables, and a number of interesting developments have occurred on this front, including a new "hybrid" wind turbine with integrated storage from GE. To what ...http://theenergycollective.com/geoffrey-styles/228741/can-energy-storage-make-wind-and-solar-power-reliable-coal

Study looks at storing wind energy in Mid-Columbia Yakima Herald-Republic Wind energy could be stored underground among volcanic rock formations in two places in Eastern Washington, making the seasonal and intermittent power that wind generates more practical, according to a new study. Sites north of Boardman in Benton ...http://www.yakimaherald.com/news/latestnews/1159744-8/study-looks-at-storing-wind-energy-in-mid-columbia

Gildemeister, American Vanadium Finalize Mass Storage Battery Pact Today's Energy Solutions Officials at American Vanadium Corp. announce the company has entered into a master sales agreement with GILDEMEISTER energy solutions of Germany whereby American Vanadium will market and sell GILDEMEISTER's CellCube vanadium redox flow ...http://www.onlinetes.com/gildemeister-american-vanadium-battery-energy-solutions-52413.aspx

PG&E Unveils Battery Storage System In San Jose, California CleanTechnica pge california energy commission The grid storage space is really starting to heat up. We've already featured a couple of promising-looking energy storage companies getting close to commercialization (and claiming to offer safe, reliable, nontoxic grid ...http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/24/pge-unveils-battery-storage-system-in-san-jose-california/

American Vanadium to sell Gildemeister's storage battery in NA Reuters NEW YORK May 24 (Reuters) - American Vanadium Corp. announced this week a deal with Gildemeister AG to market and sell the German company's vanadium energy storage battery and create a new power storage market in North America. The CellCube ...http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/24/metals-vanadium-batteries-idUSL2N0E42JQ20130524 See all stories on this topic »

4 MW battery storage system installed to support wind, solar in California solarserver.com According to PG&E, the Yerba Buena Battery Energy Storage System Pilot Project has the potential to support increased penetration of wind and solar resources on California's electric grid, and is currently undergoing testing. At 4 MW, the system is ... http://www.solarserver.com/solar-magazine/solar-news/current/2013/kw21/4-mw-battery-storage-system-installed-to-support-wind-solar-in-california.html

Compressed Air Technology To Store Wind Energy Northwest Public Radio Renewable energy storage is one step closer becoming a reality in the Northwest. Researchers are proposing a new system that could store enough wind energy to power 80,000 homes for a month. But researchers aren't proposing fields lined with batteries.http://www.nwpr.org/post/compressed-air-technology-store-wind-energy