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The University of Wisconsin is looking to new support from a battery company to help it become a leader in energy storage research. Global automotive battery supplier Johnson Controls is endowing a professorship, research labs and graduate studies in energy storage at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of
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The UK and China are collaborating to deliver the first-ever pilot demonstration of a liquid air energy storage system. The cryogenic energy storage plant being built near London by Highview Power Storage is scheduled to become operational next month. Engineers from the Chinese manufacturers of the technology are currently on-site
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Energy and utility consulting firm KEMA has come out with a new energy storage performance modeling tool designed to help determine returns on investment in available and emerging technologies. ES-Select offers probabilistic distributions for cost, payback and other key decision-making parameters. It’s targeted at companies looking to choose an
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A company that produces ultracapacitor-based energy storage products plans to work three other US firms on energy storage research and development programs. Maxwell Technologies expects to receive more than $500,000 in state and federal funding for collaborative R&D efforts with Yardney Technical Products, a Connecticut-based battery manufacturer;
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Southern California Edison is deploying an energy storage system on Catalina Island to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the island’s diesel generators. With no tie to the mainland grid, Catalina Island relies on diesel generators to produce electricity. However, such generators aren’t ideal for managing power demand, which
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A Swedish utility company plans to test a grid-connected system of batteries designed to store wind energy during times of low demand and better balance electricity loads. It also plans to explore how stored energy can help support an electric-car infrastructure. Falbygdens Energi (a subsidiary of Göteborgs Energi) is working
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North America’s largest advanced energy storage facility is now 100-percent online, providing 20 megawatts of flywheel-based storage capacity. Beacon Power Corporation says its first flywheel energy storage plant in Stephentown, New York, has just reached full capacity. The facility uses 200 high-speed flywheels to provide fast-response frequency regulation services
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With the Winter Olympic Games coming to the city of Sochi in 2014 and a $15 billion nationwide push to upgrade its energy grid, Russia is also looking at distributed energy storage to ensure secure power supplies. Russia’s Federal Grid Company (FGC) has been working with New York City-based
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They call it “Cambridge crude,” and it could revolutionize how we store energy. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a new type of battery that uses an oozy black goo to store and discharge electrical energy. It’s a battery design that’s radically different from
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A new type of energy storage facility in the UK could eventually be deployed across the country to provide backup power generated by wind. ABB’s DynaPeaQ installation in Norfolk takes in wind energy from a local village and stores it in a system of lithium-ion batteries. The stored energy
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Utility companies have long been in the business of generating energy, but storing energy is another matter. We could soon start seeing that change, though, as electricity utilities begin rolling out a number of stimulus-funded energy storage projects across the US. With the growing pressure to reduce carbon emissions, increase
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Here’s an encouraging development in the area of grid-based energy storage: Beacon Power is nudging closer toward construction of its second flywheel energy storage plant, now that it’s received approval from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to proceed to the second of three phases of Smart Grid