Overview
The electric utility energy storage market is projected to top $2.5 billion by 2015. Eight technologies - batteries, compressed air storage, flywheels, hydrogen, superconducting magnetic energy storage, thermal energy storage, ultracapacitors, and vehicle-to-grid - will compete head-to-head in this market.
Utility Energy Storage provides a comprehensive assessment of the state-of-the-art for energy storage technology and describes how the marketplace will likely evolve. Applicability and benefits are discussed for each storage technology, key players are profiled, and existing installations are identified. The report also provides an easy-to-use graphic comparison of competing technologies, allowing the match-up of product categories with specific applications.
Further, Utility Energy Storage analyzes the various benefits of storage installations for electric utilities, such as improved reliability and power quality, meeting needle peaks in electricity usage, reduced need for added generation capacity, deferred T&D upgrade investment, and reduction of CO2 emissions. Because of the intermittent nature of their power generation, storage is particularly applicable to utility-scale solar and wind farm installations.
Utility Energy Storage provides a comprehensive guide to opportunities for electric utilities, developers and suppliers of storage technologies, and engineering firms that design and construct installations.
CONTENTS:
PART I: OVERVIEW
1 MARKET ASSESSMENT & FORECAST
1.1 Overview
1.2 Market Forecast
1.3 Storage Technologies
1.4 Smart Grid
1.5 Market Resources
2 PROFILES OF KEY PLAYERS
2.1 Argonne National Laboratory - Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage
2.2 Electric Power Research Institute
2.3 Electricity Storage Association
2.4 Energy Storage Council
2.5 Sandia National Laboratory - Energy Storage Systems Research Program
2.6 UK Energy Storage Consortium
3 MARKET DRIVERS
3.1 Load Management
3.2 Peak Demand
3.3 Demand Growth
3.4 Power Quality and Reliability
3.5 Spinning Reserve
3.6 Renewable Power Integration
3.7 Tax Credits
PART II: STORAGE TECHNOLOGIES
4 BATTERIES
4.1 Overview
4.2 Lead-Acid Batteries
4.3 Lithium-Ion Batteries
4.4 Metal-Air Batteries
4.5 Sodium-Sulfur Batteries
4.6 Vanadium-Redox Flow Batteries
4.7 Zinc-Bromide Flow Batteries
4.8 Key Players
4.9 Installations
5 COMPRESSED AIR ENERGY STORAGE
5.1 Overview
5.2 Profiles of Key Players
5.3 Installations
6 FLYWHEELS
6.1 Overview
6.2 Applications
6.3 Key Players
6.4 Installations
7 HYDROGEN
7.1 Overview
7.2 Key Players
7.3 Installations
7.4 Outlook
8 PUMPED HYDROELECTRIC STORAGE
8.1 Overview
8.2 Installations
8.3 Outlook
9 SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETIC ENERGY STORAGE
9.1 Overview
9.2 Applications
9.3 Key Players
9.4 Installations
9.5 Outlook
10 THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE
10.1 Overview
10.2 Key Players
10.3 Molten Salt Storage For Solar Installations
10.4 Outlook
11 ULTRACAPACITORS
11.1 Overview
11.2 Applications
11.3 Key Players
11.4 Market Resources
12 VEHICLE-TO-GRID
12.1 Overview
12.2 Applications
12.3 Key Players
12.4 Pilot Projects
12.5 Outlook
12.6 Market Resources
PART III: ANALYSES
13 TECHNOLOGY COMPARISON
13.1 Overview
13.2 Performance Comparisons
14 APPLICATIONS & BENEFITS
14.1 Overview
14.2 Financial Benefits
14.3 Power Generation Support
14.4 Transmission and Distribution Support
14.5 End-User Benefits
15 RISK ASSESSMENT
15.1 Overview
15.2 Installation Economics
15.2 Monetizing Storage Benefits
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