Energy Storage lays out the real world options for increasing the deployment of energy storage and thereby enhancing the economic and environmental benefits of clean energy.

Energy Storage provides a good introduction into this emerging technology and shows through many examples how various energy storage technologies are already being effectively utilized by utilities and their customers.

Contents

Storage and the Electric Power Industry

• Misperceptions and Realities
• Wholesale Power
• Transmission and Distribution
• Retail

Storage in Other Energy Markets

• Petroleum Market
• Coal Market
• Natural Gas Market

Electricity Storage Technologies

• System Components
• Pumped-Hydroelectric Storage (PHS)
• Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES)
• Flow Batteries
• Sodium Sulfur Battery
• Lead-Acid Battery
• Nickel Cadmium Battery
• Flywheels
• Electrochemical Capacitors
• Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage
• Thermal Energy Storage

Applications

• Key Design Issues
• Wholesale Power
• Transmission and Distribution
• Retail Market

Renewable Energy and Storage

• Resource Utilization Challenges
• Remote Power
• Island Grid
• Grid Connected

Our New Energy Future

• The Road to Here
• User's Goals for Storage Technoloies
• A Road Map for the Future

Index

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