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BOULDER, Colo.—-The stationary energy storage sector will play an increasingly larger role in the electricity grid of the future. Demand is being driven by several key trends including the proliferation of renewable energy from variable sources such as wind and solar, the expansion of utility smart grid initiatives, and the introduction of plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles.

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Frost & Sullivan’s Energy & Power Systems Senior Industry Analyst, Anu Cherian, will speak at the Advanced Energy Storage 2010 Conference & Exposition on Monday, October 11, 2010.

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(AP:WASHINGTON) An administration task force is proposing several options aimed at overcoming liability obstacles that could hinder the development of “clean coal” technology.

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ROCKVILLE, MD–(Marketwire – 08/03/10) – MarketResearch.com has announced the addition of Visiongain ’s new report “The Energy Storage Technologies (EST) Market 2010-2020,” to their collection of Energy market reports. For more information, visit http://www.marketresearch.com/product/display.asp?ProductID=2718760 . In the report, the rapidly growing EST market is fully …

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Ice Energy, a leading provider of smart-grid enabled advanced energy storage solutions to the electric utility industry, today announced an agreement with Science Applications International Corporation that will extend the company’s Ice Bear distributed energy storage offering to U.S.

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Intel researchers are exploring nanoscale materials that could be used to create ultracapacitors with a greater energy density than today’s lithium ion batteries as part of work in a new lab dedicated to work on microgrids.

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The Metroplex’s record snow this month snapped power lines and put more than 200,000 electricity customers in the dark for anywhere from a few hours to days.

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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP)–Rancher Jack Chatfield sees untapped value in the spaces that lie beneath New Mexico’s dusty landscape. But he said the state needs to first decide who owns them. Scientists are looking at underground fissures and caverns as places where carbon dioxide emissions captured from fossil fuel power plants can be stored.

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