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Capacitors

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Compressed Air

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Flywheels

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Pumped Storage

Dinorwig, Ffestiniog, Raccoon Mountain, Taum Sauk, Blenheim-Gilboa Pumped Storage Power Project, Hiwassee Dam Unit 2: Reversible Pump-Turbine (195, Mt. Elbert Pumped Storage Powerplant, Oahu Pumped Storage Hydro Report, TVA: Hydroelectric Power, WikiPedia

Superconducting

"Research for the Future Program", 2 MJ Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage -SMES, D-SMES spells solution to power sags, surges, Distributed Energy Resources: Superconducting Mag, Power Applications of Superconductivity in Japan a, Superconducting Energy Storage Ring, Superconducting magnetic energy storage - Wikipedi, Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage System

Thermal

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$Windpower-Energy Storage$

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/sci.environment/browse_thread/thread/905b40bc119dc9f1/c472d685c4

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

http://science.howstuffworks.com/blackout.htm

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

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

Rick Smalley says (in interview) that more money should be spent on research into energy storage. [Discover]

Ancillary Services Conference

https://www.euci.com/conferences/january_05/ancillaryservices_0105.htm

Jan., 2005 conference considered ?Loads and/or Storage As Suppliers of Regulation? and ?Cost Effective Frequency Regulation Using Energy Recycling and Flywheel Energy Storage Systems?

Argonne Utilities Research: Energy Storage

http://www.ipd.anl.gov/energy_partners/advanced.html

Information and links for various types of advanced non-traditional energy storage. Argonne Labs (Gov).

California Distributed Energy Resource Guide: Ener

http://www.energy.ca.gov/distgen/equipment/energy_storage/energy_storage.html

Summarizes five energy storage technologies: batteries, flywheels, superconductors, capacitors, and compressed air.

Can Renewables Sustain Affluent Society?

http://www.mnforsustain.org/trainer_t_renewable_sustain_society.htm

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

http://www.fuelcellsworks.com/Supppage1648.html

Tasmanian projects: wind farms, hydrogen for storage, and a redox battery.

CLRC Energy Research Unit

http://www.eru.rl.ac.uk/

Institute for systems to save or store energy, including flywheels.

EERE: Power - Energy Storage

http://www.eere.energy.gov/EE/power_energy_storage.html

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?

http://www.electricitystorage.org/pubs/2002/Lisbon_May_2002_KEMA.pdf

T&D consultant 19 page pdf compares technologies, reasons. From the ESA.

Electricity Storage Association

http://www.electricitystorage.org/

"A non-profit trade association bringing electricity storage solutions to the power industry" links to a tutorial on Energy Storage Technologies

Energy Storage

http://www.eere.energy.gov/distributedpower/pdfs/review2q01pres/doe-storageq2.pdf

technologies and applications, by Imre Gyuk. pdf slides include discharge time vs. power rating comparison of several options.

Energy Storage

http://www.ece.umr.edu/links/power/energy.htm

Page with links to pdfs on storage, and other energy issues.

Energy Storage

http://zebu.uoregon.edu/2001/ph162/l8.html

Covers "Why is energy storage important"? Compares methods of storage. Links to details.

Energy Storage

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/sci.nanotech/browse_thread/thread/154db2ab634203f5/04f43e50c0fb2

17 message thread on H2 storage, nanotubes, and motorcycle power

Energy Storage

http://www.futureenergies.com/search.php?query=&topic=10

category at Future Energies, on-line magazine. Covers fuel cells, hydrogen, and batteries.

Energy Storage

http://www.energy.rochester.edu/storage/

history highlights thermal. From the U. of Rochester District Energy Library.

Energy Storage Council

http://www.energystoragecouncil.org/

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-Gazari

http://www.iee.org/Publish/Books/Energy/index.cfm?book=EN%20006

Page at the Institute of Electrical Engineers, selling 244 page, hardback book.

Energy Storage Technologies

http://www.epri-peac.com/dg/energy_storage/es_home.html

Research, evaluation, and application of energy storage technologies (EPRI PEAC)

Energy Storage Technologies Could Help U.S. Avert

http://www2.bv.com/news/articles/sep03/energy_storage.htm

Article from Inside Energy /with Federal Lands

Energy Storage Unit Ensures Consistent Power Suppl

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

Describes distributed superconducting magnetic energy storage (D-SMES) unit to control sags and surges in grid. Includes contacts.

Energy Storage: General

http://www.nrme.qld.gov.au/energy/infosite/energy_storage.html

Diagrams of fuel cells, compensated (constant volume) and uncompensated (constant pressure) compressed air, batteries, and pumped hydro.

Flywheels and Compressed Air

http://zebu.uoregon.edu/1996/ph162/l10a.html

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 an

http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/scc21/1547/SCC21present200112.pdf

IEEE Committee show of 12 slides

Handbook of Energy Storage for Transmission or Dis

http://www.epri.com/OrderableitemDesc.asp?product_id=1007189

EPRI book advertisement. Includes abstract and chapter titles.

Integrated Distributed Generation and Energy Stora

http://www.epri.com/OrderableitemDesc.asp?product_id=1004455

book from EPRI. Page includes abstract, objective, approach, results; and ordering information.