Category: Energy Storage

Xcel Energy, a Midwestern electric and natural gas company, released its preliminary test results in early August 2010 on its wind-to-battery storage technology. After one and a half years of testing, the preliminary results are a success, it says. Luverne, MN, serves …

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It’s hardly news that the lithium ion battery industry is poised for huge growth. Lithium ion batteries account for about 20 percent of $50 billion battery sales worldwide and they are expected to play a major part in electrical and …

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I hope the world is paying close attention to the development of molten salt technology to store solar energy as heat, for later conversion to electricty at night and on cloudy days. As reported here by The Guardian, the Italian utility …

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The Ammonia Fuel Network’s Executive Direct John Holbrook was good enough to send me a few DVD’s in which Bill Leighty made presentations on the numbers that surround ammonia a fuel. I was struck by a number of things. First, …

Ammonia Fuel Network — Great Presentation on Energy Storage and Transmission Read More »

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I figured that my posts on Renewable Energy World on liquid ammonia would eventually get some response. I had been wondered how it could be possible that so few people were working on projects in this area, as it really …

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It’s fast becoming apparent that large clean energy storage is needed for variable renewable energy integration into the grid, not only to stabilize that resource but to avoid inevitable curtailment due to transmission constraints. The resulting VERS (variable energy resources) …

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As promised, here is a description of various technologies and will they be able to support the objective. Compressed Air Compressed air is an old technology which consumes off peak energy from a power plant or renewable energy to run …

Energy Storage for Power Grids – by Guest Blogger Anil – Continued Read More »

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The Obama administration declared year 2009 as the one dedicated to ‘Smart Grids.’ There has been lot of hue and cry turning the electrical grids into a modern network that runs with the help of microprocessors and software to work …

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During my interview with Matt Simmons on “peak oil” for my book on renewables, I asked about suggestions for averting the imminent disaster he sees associated with maintain the status quo in energy generation and consumption. The response: Large wind …

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Peter Buzzard comments on my post “Molten Salt Energy Storage” as follows: “That was an interesting article. I didn’t know a combined cycle could be made to be that efficient… What about simply heating water with molten salt in a …

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