Over the past decade, prices for solar panels and wind farms have reached all-time lows. However, the price for lithium ion batteries, the leading energy storage technology, has remained too high. So researchers are exploring other alternatives, including flow batteries, thermal batteries, and gravity-based systems.
CORRECTION (March 14, 2020): At 12:53 we incorrectly identify the size of the energy storage market. Overall, the energy storage market is predicted to attract 0 billion dollars in investments by 2040.
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The Colorado Renewable Energy Society presents:
Ken Regelson & Rhonda Peters:
The GRID needs a BATTERY – Why Storage is Key to a Clean Renewable Energy Economy
Batteries hold the key to a power grid based on clean renewable energy sources but they can do a lot more than most of us know. Learn why we can be optimistic that remaining hurdles in policy, technology and cost will soon be overcome.
Rhonda Peters, PhD, is an energy engineer and Principal at InterTran Energy Consulting. Her background is in the wind industry.
Ken Regelson is an electrical engineer and consultant focussed on accelerating the move to a sustainable energy future. He is online at EnergyShouldBe.org
Organized by the Jeffco chapter of the Colorado Renewable Energy Society. Contact: jcres@cres-energy.org.
cres-energy.org.
CRES features several local monthly speaker series throughout the state, provides speakers, experts, workshops and weighs in on state energy policy.
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Filmed and edited by Martin Voelker, CRES. Video Rating: / 5
Under your bed, in the attic even on your mobile phone, it seems there’s never enough storage. It turns out it’s also true of energy, particularly on sustainable energy.
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