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LightSail Gets $5.5M From Total, Thiel, Khosla, Gates for Compressed Air Energy Storage

LightSail Gets $5.5M From Total, Thiel, Khosla, Gates for Compressed Air Energy Storage

Eric Wesoff, Herman Trabish: February 19, 2013

Can LightSail get to the right efficiency, cost, and scale?

Energy Storage: Crossing the Chasm to Commercialization

Energy Storage: Crossing the Chasm to Commercialization

Zach Pollock: February 4, 2013

Clean Energy Connections and GTM broadcast a discussion on energy storage.

Primus Lands DOD Contract for Energy Storage at Marine Base Microgrid

Primus Lands DOD Contract for Energy Storage at Marine Base Microgrid

Eric Wesoff: January 23, 2013

The military has a set of problems that microgrids and low-cost large-scale energy storage might solve.

LightSail Gets $37.5M From Thiel, Khosla, and Gates for Compressed Air Grid-Scale Storage

LightSail Gets $37.5M From Thiel, Khosla, and Gates for Compressed Air Grid-Scale Storage

Eric Wesoff, Herman Trabish: November 14, 2012

A goal of being as efficient as pumped hydro, but without the geographic restrictions

LightSail Gets $37.5M From Thiel, Khosla, and Gates for Compressed Air Grid-Scale Storage

LightSail Gets $37.5M From Thiel, Khosla, and Gates for Compressed Air Grid-Scale Storage

Eric Wesoff, Herman Trabish: November 5, 2012

A goal of being as efficient as pumped hydro, but without the geographic restrictions

$22M for Potential Breakthrough in Energy Storage: Isentropic Energy

$22M for Potential Breakthrough in Energy Storage: Isentropic Energy

Eric Wesoff: June 12, 2012

Could Isentropic Energy’s pumped-heat electrical energy storage disrupt the large-scale electrical energy storage market?

Stat of the Day: Power Plant Siting Problems? What Problems?

Stat of the Day: Power Plant Siting Problems? What Problems?

Herman K. Trabish: February 28, 2012

A new tool estimates that there is enough land and water to accommodate 958 gigawatts of clean energy and all the CAES we can use in the U.S.

LightSail Energy Could Make Compressed Air Grid-Scale Storage Work

LightSail Energy Could Make Compressed Air Grid-Scale Storage Work

Herman K. Trabish: February 23, 2012

A goal of being as efficient as pumped hydro, but without the geographic restrictions

The Energy Storage Market Quadruples in Five Years

The Energy Storage Market Quadruples in Five Years

Herman K. Trabish: February 16, 2012

The storage industry is going to rely on subsidies to jump-start its early growth.

Dear Santa: The Wind Industry Christmas Wish List

Dear Santa: The Wind Industry Christmas Wish List

Herman K. Trabish: December 19, 2011

The wind industry has behaved nicely this year. Some gifts would be appreciated.

Utility-Scale Storage: Moving From Trials to the Real World

Utility-Scale Storage: Moving From Trials to the Real World

Katherine Tweed: August 5, 2011

Any day now or not for a decade, depending on whom you ask

Primus Gets $11M From KP and Others for Energy Storage

Primus Gets $11M From KP and Others for Energy Storage

Eric Wesoff: May 31, 2011

VC investors continue to look for a disruptive energy storage model.

Energy Storage Medley: Hydrogen, CAES, Li-ion, NaS, NiCad…

Energy Storage Medley: Hydrogen, CAES, Li-ion, NaS, NiCad…

Eric Wesoff: May 11, 2011

Renewable portfolio standards might be unachievable without energy storage technology.  Here’s a medley of storage topics and links.

Compressed Air Storage Beats Batteries at Grid Scale

Compressed Air Storage Beats Batteries at Grid Scale

Eric Wesoff: March 3, 2011

CAES is efficient, scalable and familiar to utilities. Can electrochemical technologies compete in grid-scale storage?

McPhy Makes Some Progress With Hydrogen Storage

McPhy Makes Some Progress With Hydrogen Storage

Eric Wesoff: February 7, 2011

The hydrogen economy is alive and might still be a part of the nascent grid-based energy storage sector.