Engineering News Blog

Engineering News

Latest news of interest to engineers. Sourced from GlobalSpec's Engineering News
Previous in Blog: Chemistry Creates Self-Stirring Liquids   Next in Blog: Google Camera Helps Nab Alleged Tree Killers
Close

Comments Format:






Change Mode
Close

Subscribe to Discussion:

CR4 allows you to "subscribe" to a discussion
so that you can be notified of new comments to
the discussion via email.

Close

Rating Vote:







Add Vote
Rate Comments: Nested

Lithium Batteries Tapped for Community Storage

Posted February 02, 2010 7:59 AM

From CNET News.com:

A smart-grid project in Ohio will test whether the electricity business will follow the history of computing, with storage moving from center to the edge of the network. Start-up International Battery on Monday said that it has been chosen to supply lithium ion batteries for a community energy storage pilot project run by utility AEP set to go online by the middle of this year.

Read the whole article

Reply

Interested in this topic? By joining CR4 you can "subscribe" to
this discussion and receive notification when new comments are added.
Anonymous Poster
#1

Re: Lithium Batteries Tapped for Community Storage

02/03/2010 2:43 PM

It's interesting that they (AEP) make it sound like the 'community interest' is at stake. If the truth were known, it's their own monetary interest that's at stake. Increase the peak and they increase their profit. This isn't about being 'green', it's about greed. What they should be doing is load shifting to level out the load--not increase the peak.
Reply
Reply to Blog Entry
Have a Different Question?

Previous in Blog: Chemistry Creates Self-Stirring Liquids   Next in Blog: Google Camera Helps Nab Alleged Tree Killers

Advertisement

Got Something to Say?
Ask a Question
Start a Discussion

Search this Section
General Discussion:
Go

Search this Blog
Engineering News:
Go

Recent Blog Entries

CR4 Sections
Aerospace
BioMech & BioMed
Chemical & Material Science
Civil Engineering
Communications & Electronics
Education and Engineering Careers
Electrical Engineering
General Discussion
Instrumentation
Manufacturing
Mechanical Engineering
New Technologies & Research
Software & Programming
Sustainable Engineering
Transportation

Site Directories
Forum Directory
Blog Directory
User Group Directory
RSS Feeds

CR4 Rules of Conduct
CR4 FAQ
Site Glossary

Who's Online (171 right now)
Show Members
Advertisement