Many recipients have shifted their focus away from electric vehicles toward grid storage opportunities.
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A123 makes batteries for electric cars and grid storage, technologies that China sees as a huge growth industry.
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Grid storage is seen as helpful to smooth the sudden ups and downs in electricity supplies from wind and solar generation.
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However, if we really want to transform the energy sector in a meaningful way, it will require attention to the other relatively ignored storage domain: grid scale power storage.
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A123 System also indicated that it is seeking buyers for its grid energy storage business.
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SanDisk has announced their first new enterprise SSD since they purchased Pliant a couple of months ago and their iSSD ball grid array storage product for tablets and other mobile devices has been adopted as a SATA interface standard.
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This type of grid-level storage is a priority for the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, or ARPA-E, program.
He and his students are now developing systems for grid-scale storage.
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If tariffs for capacity or kilowatt-hours are raised to compensate for declining volumes, the effect may be to drive customers from the grid (especially if storage becomes cost-effective).
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Despite all the talk of grid-based energy storage, the least expensive solution to the variability of wind and solar power is geographic dispersion, according to Leo Casey, Chief Technology Officer of Boston-based inverter company Satcon Technology, (NASD:SATC) speaking at the Building Energy 11 conference in Boston on March 9th.
The Smart Grid accommodates all generation and storage options.
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Other factors that will increase storage capacity growth are the creation and sharing of user generated content and the growth of machine to machine communication (and thus information storage) such as smart grid networks, video surveillance, big science in astronomy and physics and other emerging automated users of storage capacity.
Altair Nanotechnologies is working with the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute and the University of Hawaii to supply a 2 megawatt energy storage system to maintain grid stability, all using its nano-scale processing technology that it says provides rapid charging.
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Yes, I know A123 also pursued the smart grid market to provide utility-scale storage.
Or, just avoided connecting to the Grid altogether and purchased some back up storage.
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The grid also provides a substitute for energy storage from renewable energy systems.
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But Richard Smith, head of energy strategy for National Grid, told BBC News that other sorts of storage would be increasingly important in coming decades and should be incentivised to commercial scale by government.
Sun's announcement marks the information technology industry's latest step toward "utility computing, " a grid system in which companies pipe in data processing and storage from faraway server farms, says Nicholas Carr, author of The Big Switch, a book on utility computing published earlier this week.
The grid needs short-, medium-, and longer-term storage to run smoothly, and car batteries could most easily meet the short-term need, a process called frequency regulation.
Instead, the company unveiled an update to Flickr at the NYC event with a host of new features that includes a retooled grid UI built out of images and up to 1TB of free storage for users.
So storage is critical when more than 15 to 20 percent of the power grid is made up of intermittent renewable energy.
In the long run, he sees millions of electric car batteries as storage for renewable energy and a way to balance demands on the power grid.
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