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Demand Response Is a Big Deal

It’s been only two years since FERC (The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) announced that it would allow DR (demand response) to be treated the same as any other dispatchable power source.  But in those two years, a great deal

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Talking Up Eos Energy Storage at the Energy Efficiency Summit

I’m taking a break from the activities at this, the second and last day of the University of California at Santa Barbara’s annual Energy Efficiency Summit to write this short note. My friends at Eos Energy Storage would have been

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From Guest Blogger Nick: Energy Storage – the Next Breakthrough Technology?

Renewable power is one of the major ways that people will use energy in future.  The fossil fuels that were the basis of the vast improvements in living over the past 250 years are declining.  Apart from the damage they

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Advanced Rail Energy Storage — Webinar

Here’s a webinar I conducted yesterday on Advanced Rail Energy Storage, or ARES, a new concept in cost-effective, grid-scale energy storage.  I interviewed ARES CEO Jim Kelly, and covered a range of issues spanning the physics and economics of energy

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From Guest Blogger Brian McGowan: Power Storage

Many times the subject of power storage has come up on this forum. Today it becomes an issue for me personally again and this is an ongoing issue. Not quite 3.5 years ago I purchased 4 deep cycle 12 volt

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Advanced Energy Storage Solutions Will Help Displace Coal-Fired Power Plants

In prepping for the upcoming webinar on ARES (Advanced Rail Energy Storage), I’m recommending that the company position itself more aggressively around the integration of renewables into the grid-mix and, in particular, the imperative to displace coal immediately. As I

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Advanced Rail – New Concept in Energy Storage

Jim Kelly, CEO of ARES (Advanced Rail Energy Storage) has generously consented to do a webinar with me in the near future, which I think readers will find valuable.  Insofar as solar and wind are intermittent resources, energy storage at

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Ron Wyden — Making Smart Grid a Reality in the U.S.

Here’s some good news: U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chairman Ron Wyden is a huge supporter of smart grid.  In fact, he recently promised today to do everything he can to move the government’s “clumsy … machinery” to make

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Unique Energy Storage Project Combines Anthracite Coal, Pumped Hydro

I thought I’d post an unusual conversation I had earlier today with Paul DiRenzo of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania regarding his concept for a 300 MW pumped storage project. Paul: Our small family group remains convinced that planned coal surface mining

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Energy Storage Is a Cost Item, Not Unlike Peaker Plants

 Frequent commenter Cameron Atwood writes: I’m pleased to hear that further strides are being made in storage, and I look forward to seeing specifics emerge on this technique. The more of this progress is made and adopted, building on already

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