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Grid Energy Storage To Grow 56 Gigawatts By 2022

March 15th, 2013 | by Joshua S Hill

As we move step by slow step into a world where renewable energy is more and more a part of

Comparing The Carbon Footprint Of Energy Storage Technologies

March 14th, 2013 | by Zachary Shahan

Update –> This reader comment seemed very much worthy of more eyes: One flaw in their analysis — batteries can be

17 ARPA-E Projects Have Pulled In $450 Million In Private Funding

March 1st, 2013 | by Zachary Shahan

The U.S. Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) this week announced that 17 projects it has helped jump-start have “demonstrated

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LightSail CAES Concept. Image obtained from LightSail Energy.

LightSail Gets $5.5 Million For Compressed Air Energy Storage

February 21st, 2013 | by Nicholas Brown

LightSail Energy, a utility-scale energy storage company, has obtained $5.5 million from investors to fund its compressed air energy storage

Energy Storage Costs To Halve & Market To Boom, Study Finds

February 4th, 2013 | by Giles Parkinson

This article was originally published on Renew Economy: A new study released by the Clean Energy Council points to the

Entire Cities Could Run on Compressed Air

November 10th, 2012 | by Tina Casey

The company LightSail Energy started out a few years ago with a student’s modest idea for a compressed air scooter,

Electricity Storage Can Take Advantage of Daily Price Variations

May 22nd, 2012 | by U.S. Energy Information Administration

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration. Electricity storage technologies that can operate on timescales such as hours or days are often

University of Minnesota Energy Storage Invention Licensed to SustainX

April 16th, 2012 | by Zachary Shahan

Here’s the bulk of a recent University of Minnesota story I was notified of via email at the end

Clean Links: Solar, Wind, Energy Efficiency, Clean Transport, Energy Storage, Geothermal, & Waste-2-Energy News Roundup

March 27th, 2012 | by Zachary Shahan

Some other top cleantech posts from the past couple weeks or so: Wind Power 1. Vestas published an interesting

Minnesota Electricity Could Be 100% Renewable, 100% Local

March 14th, 2012 | by John Farrell

A new report released yesterday by the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research shows that Minnesota can meet 100%

Next Five Years: 4x the Energy Storage (Maybe)

February 22nd, 2012 | by Charis Michelsen

Energy storage is always an issue, whether it’s storing enough power to run an electric car or storing enough

The Political and Technical Advantages of Distributed Renewable Power

September 8th, 2011 | by John Farrell

While technology has helped change the economics of electricity production (in favor of renewables and distributed generation), this new dynamic can as easily be controlled by the incumbent utilities as the old paradigm of centralized fossil fuel power generation

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14 GW Energy Storage Market by 2020 in US Says EPRI

May 5th, 2011 | by Susan Kraemer

In Electricity Energy Storage Technology Options - A White Paper Primer on Applications, Costs and Benefits - a white paper by EPRI; the Electric Power Research Institute finds that if regions in need of energy storage can defer transmission investments by investing in energy storage instead, then it can pay to invest in storage instead, depending on the costs