| Argonne Utilities Research: Energy Storage - Information and links for various types of advanced non-traditional energy storage. Argonne Labs (Gov).
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| CLRC Energy Research Unit - Institute for systems to save or store energy, including flywheels.
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| Electricity Storage Association - "A non-profit trade association bringing electricity storage solutions to the power industry" links to a tutorial on Energy Storage Technologies
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| Flywheels and Compressed Air - Page from a series of lecture notes; discusses flywheels and compares them to compressed air for energy storage. Includes formulae to calculate energy stored.
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| Energy Storage Council - Group of industries and developers to advocate and facilitate the deployment of energy storage technologies. Links to pages of 6 charter members and 2 newer members.
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| EERE: Power - Energy Storage - U. S. Department of Energy site with short summaries of compressed air energy storage, superconducting magnet E. S., flywheels, pumped hydro, Utility Battery Storage (UBS) and supercapacitors.
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| Energy Storage - history highlights thermal. From the U. of Rochester District Energy Library.
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| Energy Storage for Power Systems, by A. Ter-Gazarian - Page at the Institute of Electrical Engineers, selling 244 page, hardback book.
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| California Distributed Energy Resource Guide: Energy Storage and UPS Systems - Summarizes five energy storage technologies: batteries, flywheels, superconductors, capacitors, and compressed air.
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| Physical Limits of Portable Power Storage - MIT Media Lab compares flywheels, compressed air, ultracapacitors, and fuel cells.
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| Renewable Energy News: Blackout Highlights Solar Energy Potential - Postulates hydrogen for energy storage, with photovoltaics, to prevent future blackouts. Includes before and after satellite photographs of recent northeast USA blackout. Register (free) to view full story
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| "How Blackouts Work" from Howstuffworks - Links to "Big Blackouts in US History" and says, "the power grid . . . cannot store any power" Includes US maps.
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| Energy Storage Technologies Could Help U.S. Avert Blackouts - Article from Inside Energy /with Federal Lands
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| Energy Storage Unit Ensures Consistent Power Supply in TVA Service Area - Describes distributed superconducting magnetic energy storage (D-SMES) unit to control sags and surges in grid. Includes contacts.
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| Wikipedia - Free encyclopedia article covers history and reasons, links to related topics.
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| Renewable energy - Wikipedia - portion of article describes need for storage with renewable energy sources.
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| Energy Storage - technologies and applications, by Imre Gyuk. pdf slides include discharge time vs. power rating comparison of several options.
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| Energy Storage - Page with links to pdfs on storage, and other energy issues.
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| The Power Delivery System of the Future - Target in article from sample issue of the Electricity Journal describes need for storage in the transmission system.
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| Pumped storage for renewable energy - Google sci.energy group discussion compares p. s. to Compressed Air E. S. and asks why the space cannot be used for nuke waste.
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| The Success of Energy Storage is All in the Timing - Compares batteries, flywheels, supercapacitors, and superconductors for seamless power. Includes figures[Electrical Construction & Maintenance]
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| Principle of a hybrid Compressed Air and Supercapacitors Energy Storage system - with Maximum Efficiency Point Tracking. 5-author 8-page pdf of paper describes use of s'caps to increase CAES efficiency.
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| More on Energy Storage - College-level class notes include picture of pumped storage facility, comparison of energy densities, and the CAES heat problem.
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| Energy Storage - Covers "Why is energy storage important"? Compares methods of storage. Links to details.
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| Can Renewables Sustain Affluent Society? - Considers a few renewable energy sources, then addresses 'the storage problem'. Considers batteries, crushed rock, solar ponds, pumped hydro, hydrogen and thermochemical.
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| Energy Storage: General - Diagrams of fuel cells, compensated (constant volume) and uncompensated (constant pressure) compressed air, batteries, and pumped hydro.
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| Nuclear Energy Belongs in the Technology Museum - says nukes are less needed because energy storage allows renewables.
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| Ancillary Services Conference - Jan 19 conference considers “Loads and/or Storage As Suppliers of Regulation� and “Cost Effective Frequency Regulation Using Energy Recycling and Flywheel Energy Storage Systems�
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| PowerCorp - Markets 15 Mega-Joule Flywheel system.
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| Energy Storage - 17 message thread on H2 storage, nanotubes, and motorcycle power
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| $Windpower-Energy Storage$ - 17 message thread compares costs for pumped hydro, and batteries, including Vanadium Redox; in context of storage for wind or solar.
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| YA Hydrogen article - positive this time - 212 message thread includes energy storage topics with nuclear vs. Hydrogen and renewables
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| Cape Barren: Wind & Hydrogen - Tasmanian projects: wind farms, hydrogen for storage, and a redox battery.
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