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New material may boost efforts to convert gasoline infrastructure into one based on hydrogen University of Oregon chemists have developed a boron-nitrogen-based liquid-phase storage material for hydrogen that works safely at room temperature and is both air- and moisture-stable -- an accomplishment that offers a possible route through current storage and transportation obstacles. Reporting in a paper placed online ahead of publication in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, a...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Electricity Storage Association (ESA) applauds Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR), Susan Collins (R-ME) and Senate Energy Chairman Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) for introducing the Storage Technology for Renewable and Green Energy Act of 2011 (STORAGE). This investment tax credit for energy storage technologies of all types is expected to jump start an industry...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Electricity Storage Association (ESA) has signed agreements to work with industry groups in three states--California, New York and Texas. The California Energy Storage Alliance (CESA), New York Battery and Energy Storage Technology Consortium (NY-BES+) and Texas Energy Storage Alliance (TESA) were formed by companies operating in their respective states joining together to accomplish mutually beneficial policy goals at the state...
Hydrogen offers great promise as a renewable energy source. It's staggeringly plentiful (the most abundant element in the Universe) and environmentally friendly (used in a fuel cell, it gives off only water). Unfortunately, storing and transporting hydrogen for personal use is a significant engineering challenge. Now, a team of researchers from the University of Texas at Dallas and Washington State University in Pullman, Wash., has made the counterintuitive discovery that aluminum, with a...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Electricity Storage Association (ESA) fully supports advanced energy storage companies. These technologies provide frequency regulation to stabilize our electric grid, increase reliability of our system, and reduce the cost of electricity to consumers. Energy storage provides a resource-neutral ability to use energy when we need it at the price we want it. As we add electric vehicles, renewable energy, and other systems that affect...
DALLAS, October 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- According to the new market research report "Advanced Energy Storage Technologies by Type, Applications and Strategic Opportunities (2011-2016) [ http://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/high-power-energy-storage-advanced-technologies-and-global-market-research-95.html ]" published by MarketsandMarkets, global energy storage technologies market is expected to grow at almost double-digit CAGR from 2011 to 2016. Browse 60...
LYON STATION, Pa., Oct. 26, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- East Penn Manufacturing Co., Inc., and its subsidiary Ecoult, announces the launch of Public Service Co. of New Mexico's (PNM) Prosperity Energy Storage Project in Albuquerque, NM. This project integrates an Advanced VRLA (Valve-Regulated Lead-Acid) and UltraBattery energy storage solution with a separately installed 500 kW solar plant. Its purpose is to provide simultaneous voltage smoothing for consistent energy levels and peak...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- REV Technologies Inc. (REV(TM)), a leading provider of energy aggregation and dispatch control services for grid-networked electric vehicles, today announced an award from Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) [NYSE: SAI]. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20111025/CG92734) REV has been selected by SAIC to provide electric vehicle (EV) conversion technology and integrated vehicle to grid (V2G) and...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Electricity Storage Association (ESA) commends the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for issuing a final rule on October 20, 2011, that will justly compensate energy storage-based resources that provide certain key reliability services on the electric grid. The ruling, which applies to all organized wholesale power market regions under FERC jurisdiction, will begin to set the structure for fast-responding resources to be...
SEABROOK, N.H., Oct. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- SustainX, Inc., developer of an industry-leading, transformative technology for utility-scale energy storage using compressed air, today announced that it has received a 7th U.S. patent that provides additional technology options for its isothermal compressed-air system, including variants allowing either hydraulics or a mechanical crankshaft. The crankshaft design is a mature, simple, reliable technology, has low frictional losses making...
