Are the Batteries Ready? 100% Clean Energy Requires Progress on Storage
August 6th, 2012 | by John Farrell
In the long run, there’s no avoiding energy storage for a 100% renewable energy society. The two major sources of
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Electricity Storage is About Location, Location, Location… and Cost
July 6th, 2012 | by Zachary Shahan
The US Energy Information Agency (EIA) recently had a pretty interesting and useful post on electricity storage you might
Solar Power Can Double Pumped Hydro Output (Nice)
May 29th, 2012 | by Zachary Shahan
In Germany, due to cheap afternoon solar power, pumped hydro operators have been running on two cycles a day,
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
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
“Hydrogen Whisperers” Tame a Wild Alternative Fuel
March 19th, 2012 | by Tina Casey
Hydrogen has yet to live up to its full promise as an emission free way to power cars and other
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
New Methods to Store Hydrogen
January 31st, 2012 | by Joshua S Hill
One of the biggest obstacles to large-scale use of hydrogen-powered fuel cells is in how to store the hydrogen, a task which currently requires high pressure,... which, itself, is energy intensive. Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are aiming to solve this problem by creating new materials in which to store the hydrogen
Government Scientists More Efficient at Splitting Hydrogen
January 2nd, 2012 | by Susan Kraemer
Scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory have just made a breakthrough in bringing the hydrogen economy closer, by splitting hydrogen ten times faster.
Minnesota Study Finds Promise in Using Abandoned Mesabi Iron Range Mines to Store Wind Energy
November 24th, 2011 | by Andrew
There's promise in reclaiming abandoned open pit iron ore mines in Minnesota's Mesabi Iron Range and reusing them to store energy from wind turbines and farms. Utilities, industry and government are increasingly looking at hydroelectric pumped storage as an efficient, clean means of making more use and better managing growing amounts of intermittent electrical power being produced from wind energy.
Hydrogen Storage-Fuel Cell System to Smooth Out Intermittent Wind Power in Germany
October 12th, 2011 | by Andrew
Ontario's Hydrogenics has won a contract from the German city of Herten to install a hydrogen production-storage-fuel cell system that the city will use to smooth out intermittent wind power generation. "Electrolyzing water into hydrogen using excess intermittent renewable energy is the optimal clean pathway to smart grid stabilization and energy storage capacity," stated Hydrogenics'
MIT Research Could Lead to Improved Hydrogen Storage
September 24th, 2011 | by Nicholas Brown
MIT researchers have found a way to utilize charcoal to store hydrogen at a low pressure and at room temperature
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
“Drill, Baby, Drill” Can Store Gigawatts of Renewable Energy
April 23rd, 2011 | by Susan Kraemer
Gravity Power is testing a novel kind of energy storage with potential gigawatt-scale capacity – that uses simple mechanics and
Thought Solar Was Hard to Permit? Try Pumped Storage!
April 18th, 2011 | by Susan Kraemer
When you consider the environmental benefits of solar power for providing electricity, it has always seemed unfair that it takes so much bureaucracy to overcome to get it built, even in the nation's leader, California. Whereas a natural gas power plant sails through the permitting process with ease, solar can take years and be tripped up by technicalities that don't slow the permitting of polluting power plants
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