Frequent commenter Tim Kingston sent me this piece called “Better Batteries, Better World,” and notes, “Interesting topic for Foreign Affairs magazine; they rarely talk about renewables.” I don’t normally read Foreign Affairs; thanks for pointing it out. I’m delighted this …
Category: Energy Storage
Better Batteries, Better World
Tagged with: Better Batteries Better World, burning hydrocarbons, disruptive technologies, electric transportation, Electric Vehicles, electrification of rural parts of the developing world, energy storage, EVs, Foreign Affairs magazine, innovations that will change the way the world works, McKinsey Global Institute, reduction in deforestation, renewables
Solar PV and Battery Back-Up — An Oddity
A reader asked me to comment on the article linked below, but frankly, I simply don’t understand it. If this is to be believed, a power utility (Southern California Edison) denied a homeowner’s application to connect his solar PV array …
Energy Storage, The Power Grid, and Solar Energy
Regarding the suggestion for a huge international effort to develop solar energy, Deon Deetlefs writes on the 2GreenEnergy Facebook page: Always good to see, but when are we going to place more emphasis on the storage of power rather than the …
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New Compressed Air Energy Storage Plant Coming to California
It appears that planet Earth is on its way to its third implementation of CAES (compressed air energy storage) – one of a handful of different technologies that warehouses off-peak energy production and makes it available for times of greater …
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Tagged with: advanced rail, biomass, CAES, compressed air energy storage, Doty Windfuels, flavors of renewables, flywheels, geothermal, grid mix, Hydrokinetics, off-peak energy production, pumped hydro, solar, solar energy, synthetic gasoline and diesel, Thermodynamics, utility-scale installations of PV and solar thermal, variable energy resources, wind, Wind Energy
Advanced Rail Energy Storage – Demo and Barbecue
I’m headed up to the deserts of California tomorrow to check out an important event in renewable energy history. To be specific, I’ll be on the outskirts of Tehachapi, a small town noted in song, to see a demo of …
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From Guest Blogger BigVid: Nickel Iron Battery
Well I took the plunge and ordered a nickel iron battery pack. There was a lot of hemming and hawing but after a huge amount of research and calculating, I could find no better alternative currently available and no new …
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 …
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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Tagged with: energy, energy storage, Lead–acid battery, Steven Chu, storage, technology, University of California, zinc-air battery
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 …
