Featured in Lean machines – 09-2011

Storage systems bolster solar

Storage systems: Storage technology solutions are emerging in the U.S. solar market as something like the second punch in a boxer’s one-two knockout combination, delivering a hard-fought win for solar project economics.
By
Charles W. Thurston

“Solar and storage technologies still are relatively expensive, but when you put them together, it lowers the cost,” observes Eric Cutter, a lead analyst at Energy+Environmental Economics, or E3, based in San Francisco. Energy storage approaches are as diverse as solar cell manufacturing practices. Among storage techniques are chemical, thermal, mechanical, bulk and gravitational methods, …

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