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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.
» Advanced Energy Storage - Penn State education and research on batteries, flywheels, and supercapacitors for vehicles.
» Argonne Utilities Research: Energy Storage - Information and links for various types of advanced non-traditional energy storage. Argonne Labs (Gov).
» CLRC Energy Research Unit - Institute for systems to save or store energy, including flywheels.
» California Distributed Energy Resource Guide: Energy Storage and UPS Systems - Summarizes five energy storage technologies: batteries, flywheels, superconductors, capacitors, and compressed air.
» 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 Association - "A non-profit trade association bringing electricity storage solutions to the power industry" links to a tutorial on Energy Storage Technologies
» 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 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 for Power Systems, by A. Ter-Gazarian - Page at the Institute of Electrical Engineers, selling 244 page, hardback book.
» Energy Storage: General - Queensland Government page with information on energy storage technologies. Includes diagrams of regenerative 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.
» IEEE on Fuel Cells, Photovoltaics, Dispersed Generation and Energy Storage - Standards Coordinating Committee show of 12 pdf slides
» More on Energy Storage - College-level class notes include picture of pumped storage facility, comparison of energy densities, and the CAES heat problem.
» New and Alternative Technologies for Electricity Generation: Energy Storage Systems - Covers compressed air energy storage and battery technologies.
» 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 Dept. study shows (p. B-17) graph of reserve electricity prices moving between 0 and 750 dollars per MegaWatt-hour. Needs pdf reader.
» 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
» Renewable energy - Wikipedia - portion of article describes need for storage with renewable energy sources.
» Telepower and the PacifiCorp VRB/VESS - Sub-contractor explanation of why the Castle Valley, Utah installation is not working.
» 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 - The best option for seamless power may be energy storage technologies. Discusses batteries, flywheels, supercapacitors, and superconductors. Includes figures[Electrical Construction & Maintenance]
» Wikipedia - Free encyclopedia article covers history and reasons, links to related topics.