Energy Storage Professor Brian Collins, CB, FREng Professor of Engineering Policy, UCL
Dec 27, 2015
Energy StorageProfessor Brian Collins, CB, FREng
Professor of Engineering Policy, UCL
Energy ecosystem
Different Technologies for different purposes
*SMES (Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage)
Electricity Storage Association (ESA)
Zinc – Air grid-scale battery technology
Seawater pumped reservoir
Beacon Power - Flywheels
Aerial view of Beacon Power’s 20MW flywheel energy storage plant in Stephentown, New York, which began operating in January. The facility stores and returns energy on a moment-to-moment basis to provide grid-stabilizing frequency regulation services.
The future
• A systems approach to energy generation, transmission and usage
• Large scale trials• Multidisciplinary engineering approaches• International collaboration• Economic and governance incentives• Sustained policy
Useful links
• http://www.raeng.org.uk/news/releases/shownews.htm?NewsID=626
• http://www.lowcarbonfutures.org/projects/smart-infrastructure/systems-modelling-and-energy-systems
• http://www.iea-eces.org/files/eces_strategicplan_2011-2015.pdf