Renewable Energy Storage: Its Role in Renewable and Future Electricity Markets / Edition 1

by PEP (Professional Engineering Publishers)

Overview

It has been frequently stated that energy storage is an essential requirement if significant generation by renewables is to be achieved, but are the present systems likely to be adequate? This text reviews the present status and future potential of the different systems of energy storage, their role in power generation by renewables specifically, and the electricty market generally.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781860583063
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	02/11/2005
Series:	IMechE Seminar Publications
Pages:	64
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.49(h) x 0.46(d)

About the Author

PEP - Professional Engineering Publishers - is the author of Renewable Energy Storage: Its Role in Renewable and Future Electricity Markets, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Increasing the value of renewable sources with energy storage

The Regenesys energy storage system

The costs and benefits of electrical energy storage

The use of flywheel energy storage in electrical energy management

Superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES)

Hydrogen storage - technically viable and economically sensible?