Big Squeeze: Compressed Air For Wind Energy Storage

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Researchers in the Pacific Northwest say excess wind energy could be stored by compressing air and keeping it in underground basalt reservoirs. Read more →

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Smart Turbines, With Batteries, Will Feed Texas Grid

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Three of GE's new turbines with short-term energy storage will be installed at a wind farm in Texas, where wind's grid penetration is high. Read more →

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Floating Wind Turbines With Undersea Energy Storage

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An MIT concept would connect deep-water wind turbines to concrete spheres at the seafloor that would take advantage of hydrostatic pressure to store energy. Read more →

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Flow What: A Battery Designed For Grid Storage

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A researcher offers a new possibility for grid-scale energy storage – a lithium-polysulfide flow battery that could be cheap and long-lasting. Read more →

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Storing Renewable Energy: Key To An All-Renewables Future

Gemasolar, the first commercial-scale plant in the world to apply central tower receiver and molten salt heat storage technology. (image via Torresol Energy)

The all-renewables future will require energy storage. Here we explore both current possibilities and technologies that might one day be practical. Read more →

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Desert Pumped Hydro Proposal Gets Scrutiny

Project would turn former iron ore pits in near Joshua Tree into reservoirs (image via Google Maps)

A pumped hydro project at a former iron ore mine near Joshua Tree National Park is touted as a way to get more renewable energy on the grid. Read more →

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How Natural Gas Pipelines Could Boost Hydrogen

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Blending hydrogen into natural gas pipelines could be a way to increase output from renewable energy production facilities, a U.S.-commissioned report says. Read more →

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Radical Wind Concept Promises Energy Storage

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A wind turbine without a generator? A Wyoming company says not only can it produce energy, but it can also store it. Read more →

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Graphene Supercapacitors: The End Of Batteries?

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Researchers say a new technique to scale up fabrication of graphene micro-supercapacitors could have them replacing batteries, with vastly faster charging. Read more →

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Wind Energy Battery Storage Advances, Despite Hiccups

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There have been a few issues, but more wind farms are using big batteries to enhance wind energy integration. Read more →

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