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The Electricity Storage Association is an international trade association established to foster development and commercialization of energy storage technologies. Our mission is to promote the development and commercialization of competitive and reliable energy storage delivery systems for use by electricity suppliers and their customers.
2010 Symons Award Winner John Boyes
John D. Boyes, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, is the 2010 recipient of the Electricity Storage Association (ESA)‘s annual Phil Symons Electricity Storage award. Mr. Boyes, the manager of the Energy Storage and Distributed Energy Resources Department at Sandia, received the award at the ESA’s 20th Annual Meeting, held in Charlotte, North Carolina on May 4-6, 2010.
Mr. Boyes was recognized for his instrumental role in the evolution of storage systems having, for the past 12 years, managed the Energy Storage Systems Program at Sandia National Laboratories, which is funded by the Department of Energy.
Read more...20th Anniversary Meeting a Success
The 20th Annual Meeting in Charlotte, NC was a success. With almost 350 in attendance, the agenda was chock full of over 40 presentations on various topics ranging from electricity storage in the U.S. and around the world, to energy products to the energy storage value proposition.
Keynote addresses were provided by Jim Roger, CEO, Duke Energy; and Dr. Imre Gyuk, Manager, Energy Storage Systems Program, U.S. Department of Energy. Additionally, the meeting featured a speech by Senator Ron Wyden.
Stay tuned for information on next year’s Annual Meeting!
Read more...ESA Has Moved!
The Electricity Storage Association has moved its headquarters to the nation’s capitol. Our new address is:
1155 15th Street, NW
Suite 500
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: 202-293-0537
Dr. Nourai Joined KEMA
Dr. Ali Nourai, Chairman of ESA Board of Directors, retired from American Electric Power (AEP) in March 2010 after a 30-year utility career. He helped launching AEP’s successful sodium sulfur battery program in 2006 and introduced the concept of the Community Energy Storage (CES) in 2009.
Shortly after his retirement, Dr. Nourai joined KEMA as an Executive Consultant. He explains this move as a necessary step to reach out to other companies and help them with their projects in the field of energy storage that is rapidly growing. KEMA is the industry’s leading consulting company in storage and offers an excellent global platform for him to work on and reach out to utilities and other businesses across all energy storage application areas.
Energy Storage in the New York Electricity Markets
The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) has issued Energy Storage in the New York Electricity Markets, a white paper that reviews the contributions and possible benefits of energy storage systems to the operation of the bulk power system.
Read more about it here.
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