Current trends and future bets
Energy storage has come a long way in the last 12 months. While the pace of change will undoubtedly not have been quick enough for many in the industry, the fact remains that interest in…
Pumped Hydro
Storage focus for Amsterdam event
Energy storage and the challenges inherent to integrating renewable energy into utility power grids will be in focus at the European Utility Week Renewable Energy Integration & Energy Storage Conference from October 15 to 17 in Amsterdam.
Green light for pumped hydro project
It might not be the biggest project of its kind, but at half a gigawatt the Glyn Rhonwy pumped-storage hydroelectricity scheme is still a milestone in grid-scale energy storage in the UK. And as of…
Pumped hydro looks good at 40
We’ve already seen that, despite massive initial capital costs, the amount of energy needed to build a pumped hydro plant compared with its lifetime storage capacity makes it the most efficient energy storage investment in…
Doughnuts: just the thing for storage?
Depending on your point of view the plan announced by Belgium earlier this year is either pure James Bond, or straight from The Simpsons. The Bond take: the Belgian government is going to create a private island…
Another take on undersea batteries
Little more than a fortnight after a Massachusetts Institute of Technology proposal to store wind energy in a form of underwater pumped hydro comes news of a Norwegian company with a similar idea, according to Gigaom. The system…
New ball game for sea power storage
It’s only a proposal. But it’s an idea that could make offshore wind a lot more dependable and cost-effective, says the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT): storing surplus energy from wind turbines in a concrete…
Could Nordics be Europe’s battery pack?
This article was previously published in Marine Renewable Energy. It is a bit like buses: you wait ages for a North Atlantic power interconnector and then two come along at once. At the moment it…