Newly formed firm Energy Storage and Power plans to make compressed-air energy storage machines for utilities that need storage for wind and solar power sources. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

The electric power industry is on the verge of a new era where many of the rules will be different, but the underlying requirements will be the same: reasonably priced power available on demand and ...

Intuitively, it seems that the water displacement stores about 1/2 the energy--the other half is in the form of heat generated during compression. That's why it's so important to store that heat in a ...

Salt-water aquifers under British waters could hold 77-96 TWh of renewable-energy-powered compressed air for the two-month windows required of seasonal energy storage, according to a study conducted ...

Clean energy resources, such as wind and solar, hold untold promise for a more sustainable energy future, but a big problem with these and other clean energy resources is their intermittent nature: ...

Every now and again you run across an idea that makes you think to yourself: “That's brilliant, yet so simple, I wonder why I didn't think of that!” In the case of electricity, we (all of us ...

Seamus Garvey is the Founding Chairman of the newly established International CAES Alliance, which aims to raise awareness of the potential and power of CAES. Electricity generated by fossil fuels is ...

Decarbonizing the world's electricity grids won't be an easy task, but it is a necessary one if we're going to mitigate some of the worst effects of climate change. Since wind and solar power are ...