How can we achieve our quest for 100% clean energy? Let’s start with the understanding that nuclear, while it’s very clean, is baseload, i.e., it can’t be ramped up to address the quite significantly changing loads that we experience through …
Category: Energy Storage
Energy Storage
Here’s a piece on the five most viable energy storage technologies, and I’m happy to see that compressed air (CAES) is among them. By way of update, the CAES project I represent appears very close to getting the funding it …
Green Battery for the Developing World
Here’s a battery energy storage concept that is proposed for cell phone charging and high-efficiency lighting in the many parts of the developing world that, otherwise, have no access to electricity. The product will cost about $12, and the consumables …
Dubious Energy Storage Concept
Can energy be stored by pushing heavy stuff uphill? Of course. That’s what pumped hydro is, which represents over 95% of the utility-scale energy storage current implemented on this planet. It’s also what advanced rail energy storage (ARES) is, which …
News in Energy Storage
Energy storage consulting group CleanHorizons offers this week’s top five projects in this space:
Tagged with: integrating large percentages of variable energy these resources, methane leakages releasing large amounts of this highly potent greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, microgrids, storage completes with gas peaker plants, Storage is a key ingredient in dealing with the variability of solar and wind
Examining an Energy Storage Idea
More than 90% of the energy storage in the United States today is pumped hydro, using surplus energy to pump water uphill, and harvesting that energy by releasing the water to flow downhill through a turbine. There are several variations …
Hydrogen-Powered Cities?
Here’s an article that claims: South Korea wants to build three hydrogen-powered cities by 2022. Though this might sound legitimate on the surface, we need to realize that hydrogen is a carrier, not a source, of electricity. This, therefore, is …
Wind Energy with Compressed Air Energy Storage: An Update
A few weeks ago I wrote about an investment opportunity in the form of a project deploying wind energy integrated with compressed air energy storage (CAES), and mentioned some good news: a large investor group has offered $40 million in …
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Liquid Air: Highview Power Debuts Plan to Build ‘Europe’s Largest Energy Storage System’
2GreenEnergy super-supporter Gary Tulie writes from his home in Buckinghamshire, England (pictured): Hi Craig, This could be one more technology on the path to powering the world mostly using wind and solar. Whilst this is the biggest energy storage system …
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New York’s Enormous Battery Storage Plant
From GreenTech Media: New York’s utility regulator approved construction of a 316-megawatt battery storage plant that would replace fossil-fueled capacity in New York City.
Tagged with: battery storage plant, building gas plants to deal with the variability, enabling the integration of far more the intermittent power coming from solar and wind, gas leakages are causing a huge rise in greenhouse gases, large-scale energy storage is in the process of replacing gas peaker plants
