20 Experts Detail Dawn of Utility-Scale Energy Storage

ROCKVILLE, Md. - Oct. 9, 2015 - PRLog -- Modern Markets Intelligence (MMI) today published “Storage of All Stripes,” an illuminating, exclusive report on the dawn of utility-scale energy storage. The report includes the perspectives of 20 leaders featured in Smart Grid Today in the last six months.

“These innovators are feverishly working to get utility-scale energy storage solutions on the market around the globe, and this special report will help anyone who makes, buys or sells electricity make informed choices,” Smart Grid Today Publisher Sam Spencer said. “Long called the 'Holy Grail' of the electric industry, energy storage is now shaping up as a crucial element of not only the smart grid and smart cities but also businesses using it to save money by avoiding demand charges and power outages.”

“Historians will mark 2015 as the dawn of utility-scale energy storage, a development that will help green energy entrepreneurs, utilities and their customers cut carbon emissions,” Smart Grid Today Editor Brett Brune said. “The huge surge in energy storage R&D, as well as in companies chasing an emerging market, is a natural outgrowth of the solar boom that started a few years back. That is, of course, because energy storage helps solve solar’s intermittency issues.”

“Storage of All Stripes” includes discussion of “heatcrete,” molten-salt thermal energy storage, power conversion systems, lithium-ion battery-based “demand-reduction systems,” flywheel systems, storage-as-service and “that black box called storage.”

The experts Smart Grid Today interviewed addressed many applications, including frequency regulation, DR, demand management, spinning reserve needs, peak-shaving, renewable energy integration, community energy storage, microgrids, distribution grid reliability and “primary control reserve” or PCR.

The experts address a plethora of evolving issues, including modular energy storage architecture (MESA) standards, “modular charging” for EVs and recognizing energy storage as its own asset class in energy-related regulations.

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