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CLRC Energy Research Unit
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Institute for systems to save or store energy, including flywheels.
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Electricity Storage Association
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"A non-profit trade association bringing electricity storage solutions to the power industry" links to a tutorial on Energy Storage Technologies
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Energy Storage Council
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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.
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EERE: Power - Energy Storage
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U. S. Department of Energy site with short summaries of compressed air energy storage, superconducting magnet E. S., flywheels, pumped hydro, Utility Battery Storage (UBS) and supercapacitors.
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Energy Storage
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history highlights thermal. From the U. of Rochester District Energy Library.
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Energy Storage for Power Systems, by A. Ter-Gazarian
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Institute of Electrical Engineers page sells 244 page hardback book.
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California Distributed Energy Resource Guide
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Energy Storage and Uninterruptable Power Supply Systems. Covers batteries, flywheels, superconductors, capacitors, and compressed air.
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Physical Limits of Portable Power Storage
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MIT Media Lab compares flywheels, compressed air, ultracapacitors, and fuel cells.
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Renewable Energy News: Blackout Highlights Solar Energy Potential
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Postulates hydrogen for energy storage, with photovoltaics, to prevent future blackouts. Includes before and after satellite photographs of recent northeast USA blackout. Register (free) to view full story
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"How Blackouts Work" from Howstuffworks
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Links to "Big Blackouts in US History" and says, "the power grid . . . cannot store any power" Includes US maps.
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Energy Storage Technologies Could Help U.S. Avert Blackouts
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Article from Inside Energy /with Federal Lands
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Energy Storage Unit Ensures Consistent Power Supply in TVA Service Area
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Describes distributed superconducting magnetic energy storage (D-SMES) unit to control sags and surges in grid. Includes contacts.
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Energy Storage
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Wikipedia entry covers history and reasons, has links to related topics, considers your submissions and edits.
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Energy Storage
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Page with links to pdfs on storage, and other energy issues.
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Pumped storage for renewable energy
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Google sci.energy group discussion compares pumped storage to Compressed Air Energy Storage, asks why the space cannot be used for nuke waste.
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Principle of a hybrid Compressed Air and Supercapacitors Energy Storage system
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with Maximum Efficiency Point Tracking. 5-author 8-page pdf of paper describes use of supercapacitors to increase CAES efficiency.
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More on Energy Storage
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College-level class notes include picture of pumped storage facility, comparison of energy densities, and the CAES heat problem.
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Energy Storage
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Covers "Why is energy storage important"? Compares methods of storage. Links to details.
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Can Renewables Sustain Affluent Society?
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Considers a few renewable energy sources, then addresses 'the storage problem'. Considers batteries, crushed rock, solar ponds, pumped hydro, hydrogen and thermochemical.
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Energy Storage: General
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Diagrams of fuel cells, compensated (constant volume) and uncompensated (constant pressure) compressed air, batteries, and pumped hydro.
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Nuclear Energy Belongs in the Technology Museum
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says nukes are less needed because energy storage allows renewables.
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Ancillary Services Conference
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Jan., 2005 conference considered “Loads and/or Storage As Suppliers of Regulation� and “Cost Effective Frequency Regulation Using Energy Recycling and Flywheel Energy Storage Systems�
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PowerCorp
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Markets 15 Mega-Joule Flywheel system.
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$Windpower-Energy Storage$
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17 message thread compares costs for pumped hydro, and batteries, including Vanadium Redox; in context of storage for wind or solar.
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YA Hydrogen article - positive this time
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212 message thread includes energy storage topics with nuclear vs. Hydrogen and renewables
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Cape Barren: Wind & Hydrogen
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Tasmanian projects: wind farms, hydrogen for storage, and a redox battery.
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A Chemist’s Plan to Save Planet Earth
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Rick Smalley says (in interview) that more money should be spent on research into energy storage. [Discover]
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Handbook of Energy Storage for Transmission or Distribution Applications
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EPRI book advertisement. Includes abstract and chapter titles.
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Energy Storage Technologies
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Research, evaluation, and application of energy storage technologies (EPRI PEAC)
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Integrated Distributed Generation and Energy Storage Concepts
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book from EPRI. Page includes abstract, objective, approach, results; and ordering information.
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No power? No problem
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Machinedesign.com article about written-pole motors. "allows motors to operate more consistently despite weak, intermittent, or unreliable power supplies"
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Written-Pole Technology
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allows a simple, rugged power protection unit
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Optimal Unit Commitment And Economic Dispatch Of Cogeneration Systems With A Storage (ResearchIndex)
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high efficiency gets attention for cogeneration. Text may consider thermal storage with cogeneration.
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MORECARE Project
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More Advanced Control Advice for Secure Operation of Isolated Power Systems with Increased Renewable Energy Penetration and Storage
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Global Markets for Capacitors, Flywheels and SMES Systems
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Emerging and Mature Technologies. Promotes report projecting market growth.
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Personal Energy Sources
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Research group of the Delft University of Technology, Nederlands, developing alternative embedded power sources. Includes project summary.
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Phosphate-Cathode-Based Lithium-Ion Batteries in Large-Format Applications - PowerPulse.Net
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Senior Battery Engineer compares Saphion Energy Cell to others.
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Alternative Energy Storage Surprises
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Senior Research Analyst writes of first-time costs, power density, and energy density.
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Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL)
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British research institute. Interesting general information about windpower and project showcases, including offshore windpower.
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Ancillary Services Conference
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2 days in Denver, Colorado, US
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