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2010 Electricity Storage Meeting, Charlotte, NC
Date
May 4 - May 7, 2010
Time
Agenda will be available soon.
Venue
The Westin Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Registration
Please download the registration form to register today and mail to address provided on form.
Online registration will be available soon.
How do you integrate cost effective energy storage solutions and renewable power into the smart grid?
The Energy Storage Forum in Beijing on 30-31 March 2010 brings to you a comprehensive conference program unique in Asia that has been thoroughly researched to include topics that will allow you to understand and examine all aspects of Energy Storage.
Listen to over 30 international industry experts from over 10 countries and gain insights on subjects such as:
If you are an ESA member, email (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) to get your 15% discount code.
ESA members are also speaking. Click Energy Storage for more information.
Executive E-Briefing from Customized Energy Solutions and Strategic Decisions Group
Date: 16th December 2009
Time: 9 – 10 a.m. Pacific Time / 12 – 1 p.m. Eastern Time Registration fee: Free Venue Webinar (Please visit http://www.ces-ltd.com/webinar.html for additional information and registration form.)
Along with smart grid technologies, grid-scale energy storage has been heralded as the answer to many challenges facing the power industry. Energy storage does indeed have the potential to be game-changing, but there are many unresolved technological, regulatory and economic issues.In this free Executive eBriefing, two advisors to the energy industry with experience in energy storage, smart grid, and renewable integration will discuss the trends in this emerging technology and its game-changing potential for the industry.
Hosted by Customized Energy Solutions and Strategic Decisions Group, this one-hour webinar will explore these and other issues related to grid-scale energy storage technologies.
Speakers:
Dr. Rahul Walawalkar: Customized Energy Solutions
Christopher Dann: Strategic Decisions Group
Rep. Mike Thompson [D-CA-1] and Rep. David Wu [D-OR-1] introduced a House version of the Senate STORAGE bill written by Senator Ron Wyden [D-OR]. These STORAGE bills recognize the need for storage in the US electricity grid and offer tax incentives to foster innovation and deployment of energy storage technologies. Please read the texts of the Bills below and learn more about the potential impact storage can make on the development of a Smart Grid in America. Read more...
H.R 4210 Storage Technology of Renewable and Green Energy Act of 2009
S. 1091 Storage Technology of Renewable and Green Energy Act of 2009
S. 1091 Storage Act Frequently Asked Questions
Five Technologies that Could Change Everything
ESA Chairman, Ali Nourai, to be a featured speaker at this London Conference in December 2009. The program will discuss the latest in technologies in large format energy storage to fully realise the potential of renewable energies and electric vehicles. Revealing the latest technologies in large format energy storage to fully realise the potential of renewable energies and electric vehicles. Energy_Storage_Solutions_2009_EUROPES_FIRST.pdf
Ali Nourai, Chairman or Electricity Storage Association and Manager, Energy Storage Program, AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER (USA), spoke at the EV Li-ion Battery Forum in Shanghai 1-4 September 2009.
The conference had over 150 participants from at least 14 different countries including Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, India and of course China. Among the delegates and speakers there were over 25 different battery manufacturers and over 14 different vehicle manufacturers. This is what Sam Smith from EV World had to say about the event:
The program was designed to bring together both technical developers and representatives from the financial community to review the current status of Electric Vehicle (EV) and related Lithium Ion battery programs in Asia. Coming from the US I can honestly say I was impressed with both the number and quality of the programs underway. In the US we speculate on what is "coming", in China there are several programs that are here now.
Asia is ahead of North America when it comes to scaling up production in the near term. Where we talk of maybe 5000 vehicles in 2010 or 2011, several Chinese manufacturers are beyond that goal. One difference I did note - when a Chinese OEM decides on which battery he will use in his vehicle - he buys the battery company. Here in the US the OEM's in the past have treated battery manufacturers as suppliers only, hoping that multiple customers would lower unit costs.
During his visit in China, Ali Nourai also visited manufacturing facilities of Valence and BYD where he test drove an all electric BYD e6 car with a 249 mile range.
For more information about the event that just happened and future events please visit www.ev-li-ionbatteryforum.com
See a complete listing of the awards of funds from the DOE American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) for the all catagories under the Battery and Component Manufacturing Initiatives. battery_awardee_list.pdf
Infocast’s Storage Week is a two-day Storage Summit (July 13-14) that will examine the market design, policy incentives and barriers that apply to all storage systems. Day Two of the Summit is highlighted by two separate tracks -- one devoted to “bulk” storage project development and finance (over 20MW) and one for “distributed” (under 20 MW) storage business models and case studies. Two full-day events follow: Energy Storage Technology and Investment Outlook (July 15) and Storage at the “Edge” - Opportunities on the Customer Side of the Meter (July 16).
For more information see www.infocastinc.com/index.php/conference/185
Sponsored by the US Department of Energy and Sandia National Laboratories, in cooperation with ESA, is the premier forum for the dissemination, review and discussion of papers on specific electrical energy storage and power electronics technologies and applications. The conference covers a range of storage and power electronics topics: conventional and advanced battery energy storage, electro-chemical capacitors, SMES, flywheels, CAES, pumped hydro and more. We invite submission of papers on complete systems, components, applications, and research results. EESAT welcomes both technical reports and/or papers on economic analysis. For more information, see www.sandia.gov/eesat
90 delegates attended the ESA London Meeting to discuss the use and application of electricity storage on power networks. The transmission system operators for Great Britain and the all Ireland Grids presented their views on system operation if generation from sustainable sources is to meet governments' targets. Other presentations covered distribution network operators’ views, and the roles and opportunities for demonstration projects. For comparison, the meeting included a review of storage activities in North America and the work of the US Department of Energy Electricity Advisory Committee in the US.. The meeting ended with a panel of experts debating how storage could be used more widely, what policy changes and regulatory changes would be necessary and how the storage developers, project promoters and all participants in the power industry should come together in making full use of storage in the power networks of the future.
A report will be published in the next ESA newsletter.