$Windpower-Energy Storage$: 17 message thread compares costs for pumped hydro, and batteries, including Vanadium Redox; in context of storage for wind or solar.
"How Blackouts Work" from Howstuffworks: Links to "Big Blackouts in US History" and says, "the power grid . . . cannot store any power" Includes US maps.
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]
Alternative Energy Storage Surprises: Senior Research Analyst writes of first-time costs, power density, and energy density.
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.
Cape Barren: Wind & Hydrogen: Tasmanian projects: wind farms, hydrogen for storage, and a redox battery.
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: 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: Page with links to pdfs on storage, and other energy issues.
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 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.
Energy Storage: General: Diagrams of fuel cells, compensated (constant volume) and uncompensated (constant pressure) compressed air, batteries, and pumped hydro.
Global Markets for Capacitors, Flywheels and SMES Systems: Emerging and Mature Technologies. Promotes report projecting market growth.
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"
Nuclear Energy Belongs in the Technology Museum: says nukes are less needed because energy storage allows renewables.
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.
Physical Limits of Portable Power Storage: MIT Media Lab compares flywheels, compressed air, ultracapacitors, and fuel cells.
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.
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.
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
