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Energy StorageProfessor Brian Collins, CB, FREng
Professor of Engineering Policy, UCL
Energy ecosystem
Different Technologies for different purposes
*SMES (Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage)
Electricity Storage Association (ESA)
Zinc – Air grid-scale battery technology
Seawater pumped reservoir
Beacon Power - Flywheels
Aerial view of Beacon Power’s 20MW flywheel energy storage plant in Stephentown, New York, which began operating in January. The facility stores and returns energy on a moment-to-moment basis to provide grid-stabilizing frequency regulation services.
The future
• A systems approach to energy generation, transmission and usage
• Large scale trials• Multidisciplinary engineering approaches• International collaboration• Economic and governance incentives• Sustained policy
Useful links
• http://www.raeng.org.uk/news/releases/shownews.htm?NewsID=626
• http://www.lowcarbonfutures.org/projects/smart-infrastructure/systems-modelling-and-energy-systems
• http://www.iea-eces.org/files/eces_strategicplan_2011-2015.pdf