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"How Blackouts Work" from Howstuffworks - Features the August 14th power failure and says, "the power grid . . . cannot store any power" Includes US maps and links to articles on other major blackouts.
Argonne Utilities Research: Energy Storage - Information and links for various types of advanced non-traditional energy storage. Argonne Labs (Gov).
California Distributed Energy Resource Guide: Energy Storage and UPS Systems - Summarizes five energy storage technologies: 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 and Renewables? - T&D consultant 19 page pdf compares technologies, reasons. From the ESA.
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 U. of Rochester District Energy Library.
Energy Storage - technologies and applications, by Imre Gyuk. pdf slides include discharge time vs. power rating comparison of several options.
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 - Page at the Institute of Electrical Engineers, selling 244 page, hardback book.
Energy Storage Technologies Could Help U.S. Avert Blackouts - Article from Inside Energy /with Federal Lands
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.
Flywheels and Compressed Air - Page from a series of lecture notes; discusses flywheels and compares them to compressed air for energy storage. Includes formulae to calculate energy stored.
Fuel Cells, Photovoltaics, Dispersed Generation and Energy Storage - IEEE Committee show of 12 slides
More on Energy Storage - College-level class notes include picture of pumped storage facility, comparison of energy densities, and the CAES heat problem.
Physical Limits of Portable Power Storage - Comparison of 4 options: flywheels, compressed air, ultracapacitors, fuel cells, posted by MIT Media Lab in 1999. Engineers and physicists may question some aspects of the analysis.
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 s'caps to increase CAES efficiency.
Pumped storage for renewable energy - Google sci.energy group discussion compares p. s. to Compressed Air E. S. and asks why the space cannot be used for nuke waste.
Regenesys - Tennessee Valley Authority describes this technology to improve electric system reliability by using regenerative cells to store energy through a chemical process. Includes photos of the facility being built in Mississippi.
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.
Renewable energy - Wikipedia - portion of article describes need for storage with renewable energy sources.
Renewable Energy News: Blackout Highlights Solar Energy Potential - Postulates hydrogen for energy storage, with photovoltaics, to prevent future blackouts. Includes before and after satellite photographs of recent northeast USA blackout. Register (free) to view full story
The Power Delivery System of the Future - Target in article from sample issue of the Electricity Journal describes need for storage in the transmission system.
The Success of Energy Storage is All in the Timing - Compares batteries, flywheels, supercapacitors, and superconductors for seamless power. Includes figures[Electrical Construction & Maintenance]
Wikipedia - Free encyclopedia article covers history and reasons, links to related topics.
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