A reader on Quora.com asks: When electricity is generated at a plant, is it stored and then distributed to the citizens? Can electricity be stored at such a large scale? How efficient is the storage process? A wonderful and comprehensive …
Category: Energy Storage
Compressed-Air Energy Storage
Simon Holege asks: Is compressed-air energy storage (CAES) a serious alternative to using batteries for wind farms, etc.? Under what conditions can CAES be regarded as a viable technology for large scale energy storage? I’ve been a believer in this …
From 2GreenEnergy Intern Fabio Porcu: A Big Dam for Big Storage
Storage systems play an increasingly important role for renewable energy development in our modern society. Their primary function is to store energy produced from variable energy sources, i.e., those which, by their nature, are discontinuous since they are linked to …
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Energy Storage Can Scale in Incredible Ways
Here’s a discussion about pumped hydro energy storage I had with 2GreenEnergy super—supporter Gary Tulie: Gary: Hi Craig. Here is a proposal to create the world’s largest pumped hydro storage facility – with a potential capacity of up to 6,800 …
Achieving Economies of Scale with Clean Energy Concepts
My colleague Aedan Kernan helped us out with many different writing projects in the old days of 2GreenEnergy, though I thought we had lost touch with one another. But in response to my piece on inductive EV charging and other …
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New Role for Decommissioned Coal Plants
In the context of grid management, we hear a great deal about “ancillary services,” which normally means adding a bit of power to the electricity grid, specifically generated so as to manage seemingly small but extremely important issues like unwanted …
Advanced Rail Energy Storage
Regarding the webinar I did on Advanced Rail Energy Storage (ARES), Matthew Graham writes: This is the best idea for grid level storage I have seen. Why such little publicity? This is so simple and beautiful you would think it …
Covering the Subject of Synthetic Fuels for "The Hedge Connection"
Here’s another monthly installment that I write for The Hedge Connection, where, in this case, I present a short introduction to the subject of synthetic fuels as a viable method of energy storage. I begin with a reminder to Hedge …
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Elon Musk and Tesla Energy
I’m a huge fan of Elon Musk. Anyone who bets against him on his “Tesla Energy” venture (batteries for distributed energy storage) or any of his other businesses is taking a huge risk, given his track record. But for the …
As Long As The World of Politics Remains Machiavellian, It’s Foolish To Hope for Government Support of a Sustainable Energy Policy
Niccolò Machiavelli was born on this day in 1469, a man best remembered for his work called “The Prince,” a set of suggestions for heads of state that can be summarized as follows, according to the Writer’s Almanac: (Machiavelli) wrote …
