Poer System Energy Storage Technologies [Paperback]

Power System Energy Storage Technologies provides a comprehensive analysis of the various technologies used to store electrical energy on both a small and large scale. Although expensive to implement, energy storage plants can offer significant benefits for the generation, distribution and use of electrical power. This is particularly important in renewable energy, which is intermittent in its supply. This book provides coverage of major technologies, such as sections on Pumped Storage Hydropower, Compressed-Air Energy Storage, Large Scale Batteries and Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage, each of which is presented with discussions of their operation, performance, efficiency and the costs associated with implementation and management.

• Provides a description and analysis of various storage technologies, such as Pumped Storage Hydropower, Compressed-Air Energy Storage, Large Scale Batteries and Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage
• Breaks down each storage type and analyzes their operation, performance, efficiency and costs
• Considers how each energy storage plant benefits the generation distribution and use of electric power

1. Types of Energy Storage
2. Pumped Storage Hydropower
3. Compressed-Air Energy Storage
4. Large-Scale Batteries
5. Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage
6. Flywheels
7. Capacitors
8. Hydrogen Energy Storage

Contains comprehensive sections on advances in technologies, applications and the economic and environmental costs of energy storage technologies

Paul Breeze is a journalist and freelance science and technology writer and consultant in the United Kingdom. He has specialised in power generation technology for the past 30 years. In addition to writing Power Generation Technologies, Second Edition, he has contributed to jolC4