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Commercial Energy-Storage Market Gaining Steam
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Rick Laezman
| April 2013
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  • Green Building

Transformative change often requires major societal shifts to reach and cross the proverbial tipping point.

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The World Is Plugging Into Batteries
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Rick Laezman
| April 2013
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  • Green Building

As the consumption of power generated by unconventional sources grows, so does the need to store that power.

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Solar-Energy Storage Market to Reach Nearly $2 Billion in 2018, Report Projects
by
Mike Breslin
| March 2013
| under
  • Green Building

According to the National ­Alliance for Advanced Battery Technology, the confluence of powerful trends underway across the nation’s electrical-energy system is driving the need for a drastically different approach to managing the grid system in the 21st century.

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Energy Storage Expands Worldwide
by
Rick Laezman
| February 2013
| under
  • Green Building

Those who follow the emergence of renewables know that one of the biggest drawbacks is intermittency. The wind and the sun are not necessarily most plentiful when electricity is in demand.

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Current Events: Smart Power Storage
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Debbie McClung
| June 2012
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  • Green Building

Thus far, the structure and integrity of the grid have limited the deployment and effectiveness of intermittent alternative energies, such as solar photovoltaics (PV). The sun may not always shine enough to meet demand.

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