Energy Storage
Professor 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/show
news.htm?NewsID=626
• http://www.lowcarbonfutures.org/projects/s
mart-infrastructure/systems-modelling-andenergy-systems
• http://www.ieaeces.org/files/eces_strategicplan_20112015.pdf