Altair Nanotechnologies is working with the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute and the University of Hawaii to supply a 2 megawatt energy storagesystem to maintain grid stability, all using its nano-scale processing technology that it says provides rapid charging.
Sun's announcement marks the information technology industry's latest step toward "utility computing, " a gridsystem 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.