The Electric Utility Energy Storage Market is Projected to Top $2.5 Billion by 2015

The electric utility energy storage market is projected to top $2.5 billion by 2015. Eight technologies – batteries, compressed air storage, flywheels, hydrogen, superconducting magnetic energy storage, thermal energy storage, ultracapacitors, and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) – will compete head-to-head in this market.

Utility Energy Storage provides a comprehensive assessment of the state-of-the-art for energy storage technology and describes how the marketplace will likely evolve. Applicability and benefits are discussed for each storage technology, key players are profiled, and existing installations are identified. The report also provides an easy-to-use graphic comparison of competing technologies, allowing the match-up of product categories with specific applications.

Further, Utility Energy Storage analyzes the various benefits of storage installations for electric utilities, such as improved reliability and power quality, meeting needle peaks in electricity usage, reduced need for added generation capacity, deferred T&D upgrade investment, and reduction of CO2 emissions. Because of the intermittent nature of their power generation, storage is particularly applicable to utility-scale solar and wind farm installations.

Utility Energy Storage provides a comprehensive guide to opportunities for electric utilities, developers and suppliers of storage technologies, and engineering firms that design and construct installations.

Key Topics Covered:

PART I: OVERVIEW

1 MARKET ASSESSMENT & FORECAST

2 PROFILES OF KEY PLAYERS

3 MARKET DRIVERS

PART II: STORAGE TECHNOLOGIES

4 BATTERIES

5 COMPRESSED AIR ENERGY STORAGE

6 FLYWHEELS

7 HYDROGEN

8 PUMPED HYDROELECTRIC STORAGE

9 SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETIC ENERGY STORAGE

10 THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE

11 ULTRACAPACITORS

12 VEHICLE-TO-GRID

PART III: ANALYSES

13 TECHNOLOGY COMPARISON

14 APPLICATIONS & BENEFITS

15 RISK ASSESSMENT

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Companies Mentioned:

* American Electric Power
* Baltimore Gas and Electric Company
* Battelle
* Bechtel
* Bonneville Power Administration
* CH2M Hill
* Carolina Power & Light Co.
* Chevron Energy Solutions
* Edison Electric Institute
* GE
* Jersey Central Power & Light Co.
* Massachusetts Institute of Technology
* PricewaterhouseCoopers
* SAIC
* Shell
* Southern California Edison
* Southern Company
* Stanford University School of Business
* United Technologies
* U.S. Department of Energy
* Wisconsin Electric Power Company

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