Saturday, May 4, 2013

Energy Storage Update 5/3

Energy Storage: The Holy Grail of Our Energy Revolution?
Huffington Post
Pairing "Holy Grail" with "energy storage" is becoming as common a combination as a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. At New York's Advanced Energy 2013 Conference this week, where I was one of the speakers, the term was bandied about with great ...http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-radvak/energy-storage-the-holy-grail_b_3202944.html


Wind Power — Even Without the Wind
Today's Energy Solutions
These structures, weighing thousands of tons apiece, could serve both as anchors to moor the floating turbines and as a means of storing the energy they produce. Whenever the wind turbines produce more power than is needed, that power would be ...vhttp://www.onlinetes.com/mit-offshore-wind-energy-storage-5313.aspx
 Distributed Energy Storage Benefits on Both Sides of the Meter ...
Solar and wind are excellent sources of clean, renewable energy, but as they contribute a larger share to the generation fleet, their integration will...
www.renewableenergyworld.com/.../distributed-energy-storag...



BYD to build battery factory in Southern California
solarserver.com
BYD's iron phosphate batteries are used in its energy storage systems including its Distributed Energy Storage System, which is designed to accompany solar photovoltaic (PV) generation. The company will also open an electric bus factory in Lancaster ...http://www.solarserver.com/solar-magazine/solar-news/current/2013/kw18/byd-to-build-battery-factory-in-southern-california.html

S&C wins PEI wind-storage deal
reNews Europe
The Wind Energy Institute of Canada (WEICan) has selected S&C Electric Canada to supply a battery energy storage system for a 10MW wind-storage research project on Prince Edward Island. S&C is expected to deliver the unit in September with operations ...http://renews.biz/sc-wins-pei-wind-storage-deal/

Research and Markets: Advanced Phase Change Material (PCM) Market By ...
Wall Street Journal
Energy saving, environment friendliness, and wide range of applications are the main growth driver for PCM market. It offers applications across building & construction, HVAC, textile, fixed refrigeration, cold chain, thermal energy storage ...http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20130503-910235.html
International Battery & Energy Storage Alliance Established
CleanTechnica
The UltraBattery is a hybrid energy-storage device, which combines a supercapacitor and a lead-acid battery in a unit cell. However, electricity from renewable sources is intermittent and variable only producing energy when the sun shines or wind blows.http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/03/international-battery-and-energy-storage-alliance-established/
    


Green Technology Spotlight: Energy Storage for Offshore Wind
SustainableBusiness.com
One sphere in 400-meter-deep water could store up to 6 megawatt-hours of power. If spheres were attached to 1,000 wind turbines, that could replace an average coal or nuclear plant. And the energy source would be available (or taken off-line) in ...http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/24847
  

Meeting a community's power needs with battery-based energy storage systems
EcoSeed
At the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, researchers are looking to develop a community energy storage system to plug electricity on the grid as needed. Two requirements for a community energy storage system would be high energy storage ...http://www.ecoseed.org/technology/16433-meeting-a-community-s-power-needs-with-battery-based-energy-storage-systems
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