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Electric Energy Storage Is Reality
Monday, 02 August 2010 18:15

Written by Marc Marton

ATLANTA- August 2, 2010 - A day hardly goes by without news of some development boosting the profile of electric energy storage (EES) in utility and energy markets.  Sample headlines from the past week include a battery manufacturer receiving fresh private equity funding; a high-powered public/private consortium securing DOE funding to develop even better batteries; a flywheel technology company announcing a project to provide 7 MW of storage for a Fortune 500 company data center; and yet more DOE funds flowing to a demonstration project for compressed air.

This is all good and indicative of healthy activity in this piece of the energy sector.  EES is acknowledged as a fundamental building block of future smart grid implementations and the more investment made to develop grid-scale applications, the better.  Storage will not only be an enabling technology to merge renewable sources on the grid, it can improve reliability of power transmission, enhance energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

About the only thing energy storage doesn’t have on its side is time.  Energy storage is largely seen as experimental or in development, not an energy resource ready for grid-scale deployment.  Aside from pumped hydro applications, grid-scale storage doesn’t have a long history.  This will change with the passage of time as costs for storage start to fall.  But, until the hand-wringing over the cost of smart grid development and deciding how it all gets paid for subsides, EES needs support to become main stream and emerge from demonstration project-status.
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