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August 6, 2010
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Xcel Shows It Can Catch the Wind in a Big Battery Utility's test results prove wind power and solar power can work better with a battery.   |
The Motley Fool
April 11, 2011
Travis Hoium |
Energy Storage and the Future of Energy Batteries and compressed air will play a role in making renewable energies more effective. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2010
Prachi Patel |
Batteries That Go With the Flow A new battery design promises to even out fluctuations in solar and wind power |
The Motley Fool
February 14, 2011
Travis Hoium |
Grid Storage Is Starting to Heat Up Battery makers are putting an increased focus on the electrical grid for business. |
The Motley Fool
January 9, 2012
Travis Hoium |
Backup Power's Cost to Renewable Energy How much does renewable energy's intermittent nature really cost utilities? |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2006
Karl Stahlkopf |
Taking Wind Mainstream Given wind's intermittency, can the power grid handle much larger amounts of variable generation? |
The Motley Fool
June 1, 2011
Travis Hoium |
Germany May Lead the Next Clean-Energy Revolution Without nuclear power, Germany will need to step up its solar and wind games. |
Wired
March 23, 2009
Vince Beiser |
Store Power in Super Batteries Storing wind and solar power is key to the successful transition to these energy sources. |
The Motley Fool
July 28, 2010
Eric Wesoff |
Energy Storage Needs Better Utility Policy, Language, Culture How about we start by calling storage, storage and a battery, a battery? |
BusinessWeek
October 8, 2007
Adam Aston |
Catching The Wind In A Bottle A group of Midwest utilities is building a plant that will store excess wind power underground. |
The Motley Fool
September 13, 2010
Eric Wesoff |
SunPower Working on Solar Plus Energy Storage SunPower is looking to combine rooftop solar with batteries, flow batteries, and thermal storage technology. |
Popular Mechanics
May 17, 2007
Tyghe Trimble |
Turbine Turbulence: How to Fix U.S. Wind Power On the outskirts of Abilene, Texas, if you get close enough, the whoosh of giant, energy-pumping blades might convince you that wind power is destined to grow. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2011
Peter Fairley |
Flywheels Keep the Grid in Tune Spinning masses face off against big batteries in the half-billion-dollar market for grid stability |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2007
John Voelcker |
Can Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles Keep the Electric Grid Stable? Speakers at an IEEE-USA symposium on plug-in hybrid electric vehicles debate the promises and challenges of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology. |
Chemistry World
September 25, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Alkaline flow battery charges up renewable energy storage Scientists in the US have developed an alkaline flow battery that they hope will help to tackle the tricky problem of storing energy from renewable power sources such as wind and solar. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2010
Seth Blumsack |
How the Free Market Rocked the Grid It led to higher rates and rolling blackouts, but it also opened the door to greener forms of electricity generation |
Fast Company
August 8, 2011
Rachel Z. Arndt |
Winfried W. Wilcke On Building A Bigger Battery For The Electric Car Winfried W. Wilcke uses nanoscience to boost the storage capacity of electric-car batteries while keeping them lightweight. |
Chemistry World
September 22, 2014
David Bradley |
Molten metal batteries set to store grid power Storing electricity from intermittent, but renewable, sources such as wind and solar power and even from more conventional power stations, could allow national electrical grids to meet demand more consistently. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2012
Vaclav Smil |
A Skeptic Looks at Alternative Energy It takes several lifetimes to put a new energy system into place, and wishful thinking can't speed things along |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2008
John Voelcker |
Our First Electric Cars...May Be Trucks The path to bringing hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and electric vehicles into daily use could have some unexpected twists and turns. |
The Motley Fool
September 9, 2010
Eric Dutram |
Three ETFs to Play the Coming Energy Storage Boom Reports suggest a looming energy-storage boom. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2013
Jean Kumagai |
The Smartest, Greenest Grid What the little Danish island of Bornholm is showing the world about the future of energy |
Popular Mechanics
October 15, 2009
Jennifer Bogo |
Lone Star Energy: Why Texas Will Resist the Call for a Unified Grid A recent proposal to link the eastern, western and Texas grids together to create a national, energy-friendly supergrid has sparked the interest of utilities and energy insiders, but Texas doesn't want to participate. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2012
Jean Kumagai |
Virtual Power Plants, Real Power Five kilowatts here, a hundred kilowatts there -- with a smart grid, it all adds up |
Chemistry World
April 7, 2015
Tim Wogan |
Super-fast charging aluminium batteries ready to take on lithium A new rival to the lithium-ion battery has been created that charges in under a minute and still performs almost perfectly after being recharged thousands of times. |
Wired
July 2001
Steve Silberman |
The Energy Web The best minds in electricity R&D have a plan: Every node in the power network of the future will be awake, responsive, adaptive, price-smart, eco-sensitive, real-time, flexible, humming -- and interconnected with everything else... |
Searcher
May 2001
Irene E. McDermott |
The Internet Express - I got the power: alternative energy resources on the web... |
IndustryWeek
April 1, 2005
John Teresko |
Powerful Opportunities As global manufacturing faces conflicting energy challenges new answers are being found. The winning opportunities are in power management, renewable resources and distributed power generation. |
Wired
May 2005
Daniel H. Pink |
The New Power Generation Soccer moms, taco shops, even real estate developers - mainstream America is starting to pull the plug and rely on homegrown solar energy. Call it the dawn of the hygrid age. |
Financial Advisor
March 2008
Jeff Schlegel |
The Next Biggest Thing The next gold rush might already be here -- green technologies, a vast sector running the gamut from renewable energy sources to clean technologies that enables businesses to boost performance while minimizing their environmental impact. |
InternetNews
March 24, 2010 |
IBM Smart Grid Push Aims for Power Efficiency In a team-up with eMeter, IBM plans to help public utilities improve their power usage and efficiency. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2007
Peter Fairley |
Electric-Car Maker Touts 10-Minute Fill-up Thanks to an uncommonly stable lithium chemistry and high-surface-area nanopatterned electrodes, Altair Nanotechnologies' lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles charge up fast. Very fast. Skeptics say substation-scale power levels needed are unrealistic. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2009
Logan Ward |
10 Most Brilliant Innovators of 2009: Sodium-Sulfur Home Battery The most popular alternatives to fossil fuels for generating electricity -- wind and solar -- don't look so good once the sun sets and the wind dies down. |
The Motley Fool
April 21, 2011
G. David Frye |
Who's Profiting From Wind Power? In the U.S., GE is blowing away the competition. |
Fast Company
July 2009
Anya Kamenetz |
Why the Microgrid Could Be the Answer to Our Energy Crisis Why small-scale, local power -- the microgrid -- could be the answer to our energy crisis. And why the big utilities are fighting it with all they've got. |
Investment Advisor
August 2009
Robert F. Keane |
Alternative Energy Twisting in the Wind The Pickens plan was not the only one to cut back on ambitious alternative energy plans. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2007
John Voelcker |
Lithium Batteries for Hybrid Cars Hybrid cars need to travel farther in electric-only mode, and that means lithium-ion battery technologies have a lot riding on them. |
Mother Jones
Jul/Aug 2002
Alex Markels |
Prevailing Winds For decades, Big Energy blew off renewable energy as insignificant. Now the industry's biggest players are racing to build wind farms -- and cash in on the latest energy boom. |
BusinessWeek
June 24, 2010
Deprez & Boyle |
Wal-Mart's Wind Power Gripe in Massachusetts Cape Wind's green power will cost it more. It's trying to avoid the rate increase while trumpeting its green energy initiatives |
National Defense
February 2009
Frodl & Manoyan |
Converting U.S. Car Park to Hybrids Should Be Priority One Reducing personal vehicle demand for gasoline is the quickest and most effective way to cut our consumption of crude oil, and by extension, make our nation more secure. |
The Motley Fool
October 14, 2009
Toby Shute |
2 Big Bills for Solar Legislation in California is a start, but more is needed to set the solar space on fire. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2013
John Boyd |
Japan's Digital Grid Scheme Japanese consortium aims to transform the country's centralized grid into islands of interconnected cells |
The Motley Fool
December 10, 2009
Toby Shute |
The Wind Is at These Companies' Backs We're going to need a lot of turbines. |
Wired
March 23, 2009
Brendan I. Koerner |
Power to the People: 7 Ways to Fix the Grid, Now The grid took more than a century to grow into the unwieldy beast it is now. Given the urgency of climate change, energy independence, and economic demands, we have only a fraction of that time to fix it. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2007
Robb Mandelbaum |
MIT Conference is Bullish on Solar Power MIT's Energy 2.0 Conference brought entrepreneurs and inventors together with financiers to discuss not just advances in renewable fuels but in unconventional oil, hybrid cars, and climate change policy. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2007
Harry Goldstein |
How to Blackout-Proof a City Mumbai's economic miracle threatens to overwhelm the power grid. |
Chemistry World
October 10, 2013
Rowan Frame |
Molten air -- a new class of battery Scientists from the US have invented a new type of battery. The so-called 'molten air batteries' have among the highest electrical storage capacities of all battery types to date. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2008
Peter Fairley |
Largest Solar Thermal Storage Plant to Start Up Spanish solar power station will produce 50 MW in the dark |
This Old House
Keith Pandolfi |
Is Wind Power for You? Under the right conditions, saving energy can be a breeze. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2008
Alex Hutchinson |
Solar Thermal Power May Make Sun-Powered Grid a Reality For five decades solar technologies have delivered more promises than power. Now, new innovations are exiting the lab and plugging into the grid -- turning sunlight into serious energy. |
