Category: Energy Storage

2GreenEnergy supporter Gary Tulie writes from his home in England:  Hi Craig,  If these people succeed in their target of achieving long term energy storage at a cost of $10 per kWh using sulfur flow cell batteries, they could change the …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Energy storage consulting group CleanHorizons offers this week’s top five projects in this space:

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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 …

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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 …

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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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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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