Why electrical energy storage is useful

BY 

BEN HARACK

 – OCTOBER 18, 2010POSTED IN: NEWS, RENEWABLE ENERGY REVIEW

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1. Peak shaving
2. Energy storage for power quality improvement
3. Large-scale energy storage systems
4. Energy storage for intermittent power source balancing
5. Compressed air energy storage (CAES)
   1. The Basics
   2. Different types of reservoirs
   3. The difficulties
6. Cambridge gravel-argon battery: Great potential
7. Dispatchable renewables
8. Call for submissions

Readers who are new to the subject of energy may find it useful to look over our brief documents on important energy terms andelectricity grid terms.

This week we are taking a look at electric energy storage. There are a number of important reasons why energy storage systems are desirable for power grids. ¹ Here are some of the major uses for energy storage on an electric power grid: