- "How Blackouts Work" from Howstuffworks - Links to "Big Blackouts in US History" and says, "the power grid . . . cannot store any power" Includes US maps.
- $Windpower-Energy Storage$ - 17 message thread compares costs for pumped hydro, and batteries, including Vanadium Redox; in context of storage for wind or solar.
- California Distributed Energy Resource Guide - Energy Storage and Uninterruptable Power Supply Systems. Covers batteries, flywheels, superconductors, capacitors, and compressed air.
- Can Renewables Sustain Affluent Society? - Considers a few renewable energy sources, then addresses 'the storage problem'. Considers batteries, crushed rock, solar ponds, pumped hydro, hydrogen and thermochemical.
- CLRC Energy Research Unit - Institute for systems to save or store energy, including flywheels.
- EERE: Power - Energy Storage - U. S. Department of Energy site with short summaries of compressed air energy storage, superconducting magnet E. S., flywheels, pumped hydro, Utility Battery Storage (UBS) and supercapacitors.
- Electricity Storage Association - "A non-profit trade association bringing electricity storage solutions to the power industry" links to a tutorial on Energy Storage Technologies
- Energy Storage - Page with links to pdfs on storage, and other energy issues.
- Energy Storage - history highlights thermal. From the University of Rochester District Energy Library.
- Energy Storage - Wikipedia entry covers history and reasons, has links to related topics, considers your submissions and edits.
- Energy Storage - Covers "Why is energy storage important"? Compares methods of storage. Links to details.
- Energy Storage Council - Group of industries and developers to advocate and facilitate the deployment of energy storage technologies. Links to pages of 6 charter members and 2 newer members.
- Energy Storage for Power Systems, by A. Ter-Gazarian - Institute of Electrical Engineers page sells 244 page hardback book.
- Energy Storage: General - Diagrams of fuel cells, compensated (constant volume) and uncompensated (constant pressure) compressed air, batteries, and pumped hydro.
- Graph - Shows system power ratings versus discharge time at rated power for several technologies. Includes several batteries, flywheels, Compressed Air Energy Storage, and pumped hydroelectric.
- Handbook of Energy Storage for Transmission or Distribution Applications - EPRI book advertisement. Includes abstract and chapter titles.
- Integrated Distributed Generation and Energy Storage Concepts - book from EPRI. Page includes abstract, objective, approach, results; and ordering information.
- More on Energy Storage - College-level class notes include picture of pumped storage facility, comparison of energy densities, and the CAES heat problem.
- MORECARE Project - More Advanced Control Advice for Secure Operation of Isolated Power Systems with Increased Renewable Energy Penetration and Storage
- No power? No problem - Machinedesign.com article about written-pole motors. "allows motors to operate more consistently despite weak, intermittent, or unreliable power supplies"
- Optimal Unit Commitment And Economic Dispatch Of Cogeneration Systems With A Storage (ResearchIndex) - high efficiency gets attention for cogeneration. Text may consider thermal storage with cogeneration.
- Personal Energy Sources - Research group of the Delft University of Technology, Nederlands, developing alternative embedded power sources. Includes project summary.
- Principle of a hybrid Compressed Air and Supercapacitors Energy Storage system - with Maximum Efficiency Point Tracking. 5-author 8-page pdf of paper describes use of supercapacitors to increase CAES efficiency.
- Reliability Management and Oversight - Part of US DOE study shows (p. B-17) graph of reserve electricity prices moving between 0 and 750 dollars per MegaWatt-hour. [PDF]
- Written-Pole Technology - allows a simple, rugged power protection unit
- YA Hydrogen article - positive this time - 212 message thread includes energy storage topics with nuclear vs. Hydrogen and renewables
Media publications
- A Chemist’s Plan to Save Planet Earth - Rick Smalley says (in interview) that more money should be spent on research into energy storage. [Discover] (Published 2005.02.15)
- Alternative Energy Storage Surprises - Senior Research Analyst writes of first-time costs, power density, and energy density. (Published 2001.06.04)
- Cape Barren: Wind & Hydrogen - Tasmanian projects: wind farms, hydrogen for storage, and a redox battery. (Published 2004.12.08)
- Electricity Storage and Renewables? - Transmission & Distribution consultant uses 19 pages to compare technologies and reasons. From the Energy Storage Association. (Published 2002.05.30)
- Electricity Storage Association - Newsletter reviews recent events for several technologies. (Published 2006.01.15)
- Energy Storage Unit Ensures Consistent Power Supply in TVA Service Area - Describes distributed superconducting magnetic energy storage (D-SMES) unit to control sags and surges in grid. Includes contacts. (Published 2002.09.05)
- Fuel Cells, Photovoltaics, Dispersed Generation and Energy Storage - Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) committee show of 12 slides (Published 2001.12.05)
- Global Markets for Capacitors, Flywheels and SMES Systems - Emerging and Mature Technologies. Promotes report projecting market growth. (Published 2005.08.24)
- Nuclear Energy Belongs in the Technology Museum - says nukes are less needed because energy storage allows renewables. (Published 2004.11.22)
- Physical Limits of Portable Power Storage - MIT Media Lab compares flywheels, compressed air, ultracapacitors, and fuel cells. (Published 1999.06.30)
- Pumped storage for renewable energy - Google sci.energy group discussion compares pumped storage to Compressed Air Energy Storage, asks why the space cannot be used for nuke waste. (Published 1997.04.21)
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