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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..

CLRC Energy Research Unit - Institute for systems to save or store energy, including flywheels..

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

Energy Storage - San Diego State University College of Engineering page includes equations and figures, and focuses on batteries for vehicles..

Energy Storage: A Nontechnical Guide - Amazon.com page markets hardcover book with reviews and a sample page..

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. 5-author 8-page pdf of paper describes use of supercapacitors to increase CAES efficiency..

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].

Storage Device - Rocky Mountain Institute page links to three possible technologies for use in Hypercars(R).

Storage, Use, and Handling of Compressed Gases and Cryogenic Fluids in Portable and Stationary Containers, Cylinders, and Tanks - (NFPA 55) page shows scope of standard, links to preview (uses RealRead) and contents..

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..

YA Hydrogen article - positive this time - 212 message thread includes energy storage topics with nuclear vs. Hydrogen and renewables.

Energy Storage: Not Just R & D Nor Necessarily Expensive - Power Engineering magazine article compares chilled water storage(TES) and stationary sodium sulfur batteries. (May 15, 2006).

Global Markets for Capacitors, Flywheels and SMES Systems - Emerging and Mature Technologies. Promotes report projecting market growth. (August 24, 2005).

A Chemist’s Plan to Save Planet Earth - Rick Smalley says (in interview) that more money should be spent on research into energy storage. [Discover] (February 15, 2005).

Cape Barren: Wind & Hydrogen - Tasmanian projects: wind farms, hydrogen for storage, and a redox battery. (December 8, 2004).

Nuclear Energy Belongs in the Technology Museum - says nukes are less needed because energy storage allows renewables. (November 22, 2004).

Energy storage - 39-post Physics Forums discussion starts with "list all the ways energy can be stored". (January 12, 2004).

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. (September 5, 2002).

Electricity Storage and Renewables? - Transmission & Distribution consultant uses 19 pages to compare technologies and reasons. From the Energy Storage Association. [PDF] (May 30, 2002).

Fuel Cells, Photovoltaics, Dispersed Generation and Energy Storage - Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) committee show of 12 slides [PDF] (December 5, 2001).

Alternative Energy Storage Surprises - Senior Research Analyst writes of first-time costs, power density, and energy density. (June 4, 2001).

Pumped storage for renewable energy - Google sci.energy group discussion compares pumped storage to Compressed Air Energy Storage, asks why the space cannot be used for nuke waste. (April 21, 1997).