Smart Grid Energy Storage

Energy storage in grid infrastructure allows power companies to time shift energy to when electricity is needed.  Energy storage systems include flywheel energy storage, energy storage batteries, and energy storage capacitors.

Energy Storage News

Alstom and Drax pick gas partner for CCS project

25/01/2012 Gas producer BOC has been chosen to join Alstom and Drax on the team building a carbon capture and storage project in the UK.

Global energy storage to multiply 100-fold in next decade

11/11/2011

Global energy storage is predicted to increase 100-fold in the next decade from 121 MW this year to 12 353 MW in 2021.

Enel Distribuzione starts work on Italy’s first Smart Grid

08/11/2011

Work has started on a €10m ($14m) project to build Italy’s first Smart Grid.

Tokyo wants Smart Grid following Fukushima power cuts

08/11/2011 A Smart Grid is to be set up in Tokyo as a solution to the power problems the city faced in the days following the Fukushima nu...

Smart Grid experiment on England’s largest island

08/11/2011 A Smart Grid project involving some of the world’s biggest technology companies is underway on the Isle of Wight in the UK.

Energy storage drives surge in US clean-tech investment

04/11/2011 A surge in funding to energy storage companies helped US venture capital investment in clean-teach firms rocket 73 per cent inc...

First equipment delivery for South Korea’s Smart Grid test bed

02/11/2011 ZBB Energy and Honam Petrochemical have shipped the joint venture’s first energy storage and power control system to Jeju Islan...

Energy storage systems for ancillary services to pass $3.2bn by 2021

12/10/2011 The global market for short-duration energy storage systems (ESS) for ancillary services applications will soar in the coming d...

Smart grids to drive lithium ion battery demand, says IHS

26/09/2011 Information and analysis provider IHS has published a report that states that the expected proliferation of electrical smart gr...

ABB to use lithium-ion for grid-scale storage

09/09/2011 ABB is to incorporate International Battery’s lithium-ion large format HyperClass batteries into a distributed energy storage s...

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