Posts Tagged Batteries

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An Energy Storage Transformation in Germany?

5 June 2013 | Issue 3

The need and viability of energy storage varies from place to place. How can the PV-saturated nation of Germany benefit from widescale energy storage?

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Transportation’s Battery Bottleneck: Context, Challenges, and Path Forward

5 June 2013 | Issue 3

Stanford Alum Kevin Hettrich describes the numerous advantages of electric vehicle transportation, as well as drawbacks which have prevented widespread penetration in the markets.

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Deploying battery storage in commercial buildings: opportunities and challenges

5 June 2013 | Issue 3

Buildings consume 41 percent of the total energy and 70 percent of the electricity in the US, meaning there is ample room for demand optimization using energy storage.

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Batteries – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

5 June 2013 | Issue 3

Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering Robert Huggins discusses the past, present, and future of the most common and well-known energy storage device – the battery.

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The Emerging Regulatory and Policy Landscape for Grid-Scale Electric Energy Storage

5 June 2013 | Issue 3

The wide expansion of utility-scale energy storage will involve a variety of policy and regulatory decisions. Stanford student Hunter Ellis takes a look forward at how this landscape will affect the industry.

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Informing the transition to low-carbon energy systems through energy systems analysis of energy storage for the power grid

5 June 2013 | Issue 3

Post-doctoral scholars Charles Barnhart and Mik Dale assess the extent to which the energy storage industry will help us transition to a low-carbon economy.