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Energy storage : a nontechnical guide /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baxter, Richard
Corporate Author: Knovel (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Tulsa, Okla. : PennWell, [2006]
Series:PennWell nontechnical series.
Subjects:
Energy storage.
Énergie > Stockage.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Storage and the electric power industry
  • Misperceptions and realities
  • Wholesale power
  • Transmission and distribution
  • Retail
  • 2. Storage in other energy markets
  • Petroleum market
  • Coal market
  • Natural gas market
  • Lessons learned
  • 3. Electricity storage technologies
  • System components
  • Pumped-hydroelectric storage (PHS)
  • Compressed air energy storage (CAES)
  • Flow batteries
  • Sodium sulfur battery
  • Lead-acid battery
  • Nickel cadmium battery
  • Flywheels
  • Electrochemical capacitors
  • Superconducting magnetic energy storage
  • Thermal energy storage
  • 4. Applications
  • Key design issues
  • Wholesale power
  • Transmission and distribution
  • Retail market
  • 5. Renewable energy and storage
  • Resource utilization challenges
  • Remote power
  • Island grid
  • Grid connected
  • 6. Our new energy future
  • The road to here
  • User's goals for storage technologies
  • A road map for the future.