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.
- http://pepei.pennnet.com/display_article/210623/6/ARTCL/none/none/Energy-Storage:-Value-is-Clear,-But-Who-Will-Pay?/

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.
- http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=909#more-909

CoolAir UPS (60Hz)
- Off-the-shelf system uses flywheel *and* compressed air for 50, 80, or 100kVA. "the only minute-for-minute alternative to traditional battery-based UPS solutions with none of their inherent limitations"
- http://www.activepower.com/solutions/coolair-systems/coolair-ups-60hz.html

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

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

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

Energy Storage: A Nontechnical Guide
- Amazon.com page markets hardcover book with reviews and a sample page.
- http://www.amazon.com/Energy-Storage-Nontechnical-Richard-Baxter/dp/159370027X

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

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

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
- 39-post Physics Forums discussion starts with "list all the ways energy can be stored".
- http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=10454

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

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

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

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

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

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

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]
- http://www.discover.com/issues/feb-05/departments/discover-dialogue/

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

YA Hydrogen article - positive this time
- 212 message thread includes energy storage topics with nuclear vs. Hydrogen and renewables
- http://groups-beta.google.com/group/sci.energy/browse_thread/thread/c491f73069ee4f88/446ada045077dd70#446ada045077dd70

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

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

Electricity Storage and Renewables?
- Transmission & Distribution consultant uses 19 pages to compare technologies and reasons. From the Energy Storage Association.
- http://www.electricitystorage.org/pubs/2002/Lisbon_May_2002_KEMA.pdf

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

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

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.
- http://leiwww.epfl.ch/publications/lemofouet_rufer_cyphelly_barrade_grasser_store_03.pdf

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

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

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.
- http://www.tva.com/news/releases/julydec02/energy.htm

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

"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

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

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 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/

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/

CLRC Energy Research Unit
- Institute for systems to save or store energy, including flywheels.
- http://www.eru.rl.ac.uk/