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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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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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 …
Advanced Rail Energy Storage – Demo and Barbecue Read More »
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 …
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 …
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 …
Talking Up Eos Energy Storage at the Energy Efficiency Summit Read More »
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 …
From Guest Blogger Nick: Energy Storage – the Next Breakthrough Technology? Read More »
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 …
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 …
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 …
Advanced Energy Storage Solutions Will Help Displace Coal-Fired Power Plants Read More »
