"How Blackouts Work" from Howstuffworks
Links to "Big Blackouts in US History" and says, "the power grid . . . cannot store any power" Includes US maps.

A Chemist’s Plan to Save Planet Earth
Rick Smalley says (in interview) that more money should be spent on research into energy storage. [Discover]

Alternative Energy Storage Surprises
Senior Research Analyst writes of first-time costs, power density, and energy density.

Ancillary Services Conference
Jan., 2005 conference considered “Loads and/or Storage As Suppliers of Regulation” and “Cost Effective Frequency Regulation Using Energy Recycling and Flywheel Energy Storage Systems”

California Distributed Energy Resource Guide
Energy Storage and Uninterruptable Power Supply Systems. Covers batteries, flywheels, superconductors, capacitors, and compressed air.

Can Renewables Sustain Affluent Society?
Considers a few renewable energy sources, then addresses 'the storage problem'. Considers batteries, crushed rock, solar ponds, pumped hydro, hydrogen and thermochemical.

Cape Barren: Wind & Hydrogen
Tasmanian projects: wind farms, hydrogen for storage, and a redox battery.

CLRC Energy Research Unit
Institute for systems to save or store energy, including flywheels.

EERE: Power - Energy Storage
U. S. Department of Energy site with short summaries of compressed air energy storage, superconducting magnet E. S., flywheels, pumped hydro, Utility Battery Storage (UBS) and supercapacitors.

Electricity Storage and Renewables?
Transmission & Distribution consultant uses 19 pages to compare technologies and reasons. From the Energy Storage Association.

Electricity Storage Association
"A non-profit trade association bringing electricity storage solutions to the power industry" links to a tutorial on Energy Storage Technologies

Electricity Storage Association
Newsletter reviews recent events for several technologies.

Energy Storage
history highlights thermal. From the U. of Rochester District Energy Library.

Energy Storage
Wikipedia entry covers history and reasons, has links to related topics, considers your submissions and edits.

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