Energy storage batteries

Apart from the promising electrochemical properties that will be exhaustively discussed through this chapter, carbon nanotubes have become a hot research topic due to their outstanding electronic, mechanical, thermal, optical and chemical properties and their biocompatibility. Near- and long-term innovative applications can be foreseen including nanoelectronic and nanoelectromechanical devices, held emitters, probes, sensors and actuators as well as novel materials for mechanical reinforcement, fuel cells, batteries, energy storage, (bio)chemical separation, purification and catalysis [20]. 

EC = ethylene carbonate DME = dimethoxyelhane DMC = dimethyl carbon ate DEC = diethylcarbonate. Derived from LIBES (Lithium Battery Energy Storage Technology Research Association) released information. 

EU = European Union USABC = United States Battery Advanced Consortium IREQ = Hydro-Quebec ANL = Argonne National Laboratory EDF = Electricity de France LIBES = Lithium Battery Energy Storage Technology Research Association,... 

BATTERY ENERGY-STORAGE SYSTEMS FOR POWER-SUPPLY NETWORKS... 

Many, perhaps most, of recent (since 1980), utility-scale BESSs are presented in Table 10.1. For each BESS, details are given of the location, rated capacity, principle applications, and date of installation. The more familiar systems, i.e., those for which descriptive information is reasonably available, are discussed below. In recent years, the lead-acid battery, energy-storage, and related industries have often been involved in acquisitions and other corporate structure changes such that name changes have taken place. The following discussion uses names that were appropriate when the BESSs came to public attention. 

The BESS at Crescent EMC was originally installed for test purposes at the Battery Energy Storage Test (BEST) facility in New Jersey and underwent some cycling there, perhaps the equivalent of 200 cycles. At Crescent, it is cycled to reduce the demand whenever there is a possibility that Duke Energy will experience their... 

Table 10.2. Costs of battery energy-storage systems ...

M. Farber-De Anda, J.D. Boyes, W. Torres, Lessons Learned from the Puerto Rico Battery Energy Storage System, SAND99-2232, September 1999, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA. 

RAPS systems that incorporate a component of renewable energy generally require battery energy-storage. Examples of such systems, together with their application and associated service, are summarized in Table 14.1. 

Battery Energy Storage - Energy storage using electrochemical batteries. The three main applications for battery energy storage... 

LIBES Lithium Battery Energy Storage Technology Research Association... 

Erik J. Spek (electric cars, batteries/energy storage), TUV SUD Canada, Newmarket, ON... 

P. C. Butler, Battery Energy Storage for Utility Applications Phase 1—Opportunities Analysis, Sandia National Laboratories, SAND94-2605, Oct., 1994. 

S. Euruta, NEDO s Research and Development on Battery Energy Storage System, Utility Battery Group Meeting, Valley Forge, Pa., Nov. 1992. 

T. Hirabayashi, S. Furuta, and H. Satoh, Status of the Moonlight Project on Advanced Battery Energy Storage System, Proc. 26th lECEC, Boston, Mass., 1991, vol. 6, pp. 88-93. 

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