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California Distributed Energy Resource Guide
Energy Storage and Uninterruptable Power Supply Systems. Covers batteries, flywheels, superconductors, capacitors, and compressed air.
http://www.energy.ca.gov/distgen/equipment/energy_storage/energy_storage.html

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.
http://www.mnforsustain.org/trainer_t_renewable_sustain_society.htm

Distributed Energy and Energy Storage
CSIRO Energy Technology page includes lithium metal batteries, ultrabatteries, and supercapacitors. Links allow eMail to contacts for each project.
http://www.det.csiro.au/science/de_s/de_s_topics.htm

Electricity Storage Association
"A non-profit trade association bringing electricity storage solutions to the power industry" links to a tutorial on Energy Storage Technologies
http://www.electricitystorage.org/

Energy Storage
history highlights thermal. From the University of Rochester District Energy Library.
http://www.energy.rochester.edu/storage/

Energy Storage
Wikipedia entry covers history and reasons, has links to related topics, considers your submissions and edits.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_storage

Energy Storage
Covers "Why is energy storage important"? Compares methods of storage. Links to details.
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/2001/ph162/l8.html

Energy Storage
San Diego State University College of Engineering page includes equations and figures, and focuses on batteries for vehicles.
http://www.engineering.sdsu.edu/~hev/energy.html

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.
http://www.energystoragecouncil.org/

Energy Storage for Power Systems, by A. Ter-Gazarian
Institute of Electrical Engineers page sells 244 page hardback book.
http://www.iee.org/Publish/Books/Energy/index.cfm?book=EN%20006

Energy Storage Systems
Research Program is part of the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability at DOE (United States of America).
http://www.sandia.gov/ess/index.html

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.
http://www.electricitystorage.org/pix/photo_ESAratings.gif

Grid energy storage
Wikipedia entry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_energy_storage

Handbook of Energy Storage for Transmission or Distribution Applications
EPRI book advertisement. Includes abstract and chapter titles.
http://www.epri.com/OrderableitemDesc.asp?product_id=1007189

"How Blackouts Work" from Howstuffworks
Links to "Big Blackouts in US History" and says, "the power grid . . . cannot store any power" Includes US maps.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/blackout.htm

Integrated Distributed Generation and Energy Storage Concepts
book from EPRI. Page includes abstract, objective, approach, results; and ordering information.
http://www.epri.com/OrderableitemDesc.asp?product_id=1004455

More on Energy Storage
College-level class notes include picture of pumped storage facility, comparison of energy densities, and the CAES heat problem.
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/2001/ph162/l10.html

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.
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/115311.html

Personal Energy Sources
Research group of the Delft University of Technology, Nederlands, developing alternative embedded power sources. Includes project summary.
http://www.io.tudelft.nl/pes

Principle of a hybrid Compressed Air and Supercapacitors Energy Storage system with Maximum Efficiency Point Tracking
Five-author eight-page paper describing the use of supercapacitors to increase CAES efficiency. [PDF]
http://leiwww.epfl.ch/publications/lemofouet_rufer_cyphelly_barrade_grasser_store_03.pdf

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]
http://tis.eh.doe.gov/ntgs/issuepapers/ISSUE_2.PDF

Stored Electrical Energy Emergency and Standby Power Systems
(NFPA 111) page links to preview and contents, markets full hardcopy ($28 USD)
http://www.nfpa.org/aboutthecodes/AboutTheCodes.asp?DocNum=111&cookie%5Ftest=1

$Windpower-Energy Storage$
17 message thread compares costs for pumped hydro, and batteries, including Vanadium Redox; in context of storage for wind or solar.
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.environment/browse_thread/thread/905b40bc119dc9f1/c472d685c409fc35

The Mechanical Battery
"the average person has probably never heard of a flywheel battery, the concept is starting to be taken seriously by commercial and governmental interests". Pictures of components and applications. (October 12, 2007)
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=909#more-909

Energy Storage: Not Just R & D Nor Necessarily Expensive
Power Engineering magazine article compares chilled water storage(TES) and stationary sodium sulfur batteries. (May 15, 2006)
http://pepei.pennnet.com/articles/article_display.cfm?article_id=256009

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] (February 15, 2005)
http://discovermagazine.com/2005/feb/discover-dialogue/

Cape Barren: Wind & Hydrogen
Tasmanian projects: wind farms, hydrogen for storage, and a redox battery. (December 8, 2004)
http://www.fuelcellsworks.com/Supppage1648.html

Nuclear Energy Belongs in the Technology Museum
says nukes are less needed because energy storage allows renewables. (November 22, 2004)
http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=19012

Energy Storage: Value is Clear, But Who Will Pay?
Energy storage devices have value to electricity production, delivery, and use. Options across the size spectrum are available today. Power Engineering covers the Electricity Storage Association meet. (August 15, 2004)
http://pepei.pennnet.com/display_article/210623/6/ARTCL/none/none/Energy-Storage:-Value-is-Clear,-But-Who-Will-Pay?/

Energy storage
39-post Physics Forums discussion starts with "list all the ways energy can be stored". (January 12, 2004)
http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=10454

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. (September 5, 2002)
http://www.tva.com/news/releases/julydec02/energy.htm

Electricity Storage and Renewables?
Transmission and Distribution consultant uses 19 pages to compare technologies and reasons. From the Energy Storage Association. [PDF] (May 30, 2002)
http://www.electricitystorage.org/pubs/2002/Lisbon_May_2002_KEMA.pdf

Fuel Cells, Photovoltaics, Dispersed Generation and Energy Storage
Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) committee show of 12 slides [PDF] (December 5, 2001)
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/scc21/1547/SCC21present200112.pdf

Alternative Energy Storage Surprises
Senior Research Analyst writes of first-time costs, power density, and energy density. (June 4, 2001)
http://www.powerpulse.net/powerLines.php?Id=99&page=1

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. (April 21, 1997)
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=APC%261%270%275765fa42%27df4%40igc.apc.org&rnum=3