Compressed Air Energy Storage

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?

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

Emerging Solar Strategies, Part 2: SOLON

Emerging Solar Strategies, Part 2: SOLON

Herman K. Trabish: September 21, 2012

“We are prepared to deal with whatever we need to deal with to play in the 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.

Autodesk: A Hollywood Happy Ending for Renewables and Greentech Innovation?

Autodesk: A Hollywood Happy Ending for Renewables and Greentech Innovation?

Herman K. Trabish: January 25, 2012

With Autodesk’s Academy Award-winning software, renewables innovators use movie magic to get across the Valley of Death.

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.

The Energy-Efficient Subway

The Energy-Efficient Subway

Michael Kanellos: September 1, 2011

Why not harvest megawatts from subway trains?

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

Bright Energy’s Twist on CAES: Use the Ocean

Bright Energy’s Twist on CAES: Use the Ocean

Michael Kanellos: June 21, 2011

The latest entry into the compressed air derby wants to plant a big bag under the ocean to hold gigawatt-hours’ worth of power.

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.

Energy Storage Originators: A New Type of Company?

Energy Storage Originators: A New Type of Company?

Michael Kanellos: January 12, 2011

GridFlex is sort of like a pre-developer of pumped hydro and compressed air projects.