Storage

• California Distributed Energy Resource Guide - Energy Storage and Uninterruptable Power Supply Systems. Covers 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.
• Distributed Energy and Energy Storage - CSIRO Energy Technology page includes lithium metal batteries, ultrabatteries, and supercapacitors. Links allow eMail to contacts for each project.
• 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 University of Rochester District Energy Library.
• Energy Storage - Wikipedia entry covers history and reasons, has links to related topics, considers your submissions and edits.
• Energy Storage - Covers "Why is energy storage important"? Compares methods of storage. Links to details.
• Energy Storage - San Diego State University College of Engineering page includes equations and figures, and focuses on batteries for vehicles.
• 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 - Institute of Electrical Engineers page sells 244 page hardback book.
• Energy Storage Systems - Research Program is part of the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability at DOE (United States of America).
• 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.
• Grid energy storage - Wikipedia entry.
• Handbook of Energy Storage for Transmission or Distribution Applications - EPRI book advertisement. Includes abstract and chapter titles.
• "How Blackouts Work" from Howstuffworks - Links to "Big Blackouts in US History" and says, "the power grid . . . cannot store any power" Includes US maps.
• Integrated Distributed Generation and Energy Storage Concepts - book from EPRI. Page includes abstract, objective, approach, results; and ordering information.
• More on Energy Storage - College-level class notes include picture of pumped storage facility, comparison of energy densities, and the CAES heat problem.
• 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.
• Personal Energy Sources - Research group of the Delft University of Technology, Nederlands, developing alternative embedded power sources. Includes project summary.
• Principle of a hybrid Compressed Air and Supercapacitors Energy Storage system with Maximum Efficiency Point Tracking - Five-author eight-page paper describing the use of supercapacitors to increase CAES efficiency. [PDF]
• 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. [PDF]
• Stored Electrical Energy Emergency and Standby Power Systems - (NFPA 111) page links to preview and contents, markets full hardcopy ($28 USD)
• $Windpower-Energy Storage$ - 17 message thread compares costs for pumped hydro, and batteries, including Vanadium Redox; in context of storage for wind or solar.