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Institute for systems to save or store energy, including flywheels.
www.eru.rl.ac.uk
Electricity Storage Association
"A non-profit trade association bringing electricity storage solutions to the power industry" links to a tutorial on Energy Storage Technologies
www.electricitystorage.org
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.
www.energystoragecouncil.org
history highlights thermal. From the University of Rochester District Energy Library.
www.energy.rochester.edu
Energy Storage for Power Systems, by A. Ter-Gazarian
Institute of Electrical Engineers page sells 244 page hardback book.
www.iee.org
California Distributed Energy Resource Guide
Energy Storage and Uninterruptable Power Supply Systems. Covers batteries, flywheels, superconductors, capacitors, and compressed air.
www.energy.ca.gov
"How Blackouts Work" from Howstuffworks
Links to "Big Blackouts in US History" and says, "the power grid . . . cannot store any power" Includes US maps.
science.howstuffworks.com
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)
tis.eh.doe.gov
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.
www.tva.com
Wikipedia entry covers history and reasons, has links to related topics, considers your submissions and edits.
en.wikipedia.org
Fuel Cells, Photovoltaics, Dispersed Generation and Energy Storage
Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) committee show of 12 slides (PDF)
grouper.ieee.org
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.
groups.google.com
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.
leiwww.epfl.ch
College-level class notes include picture of pumped storage facility, comparison of energy densities, and the CAES heat problem.
zebu.uoregon.edu
Covers "Why is energy storage important"? Compares methods of storage. Links to details.
zebu.uoregon.edu