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 pointed out to Jim Kelly, the company’s CEO, even the “man on the street” is becoming aware of the environmental and health issues associated with coal-fired power plants. Of course, he’ll run into the occasional climate change denier, but CO2 is certainly not the only issue with coal, and its sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, particulate matter, mercury, lead, cadmium, other toxic heavy metals, carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds (VOC), arsenic, sulfides, halides, mercaptins, and radioactive isotopes. In other words, it’s poison, and more people are starting to understand this with each passing day.

Given the falling price of solar and the already low price of wind, low-cost storage is the only remaining challenge here.