ice energy storage Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 10 Jul 2015 13:31:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Ice Cooling System Coming to Southern California https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ice-cooling-system-california/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ice-cooling-system-california/#respond Fri, 10 Jul 2015 13:31:27 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=55620 Californian companies NRG Energy and Ice Energy have teamed up to install an innovative new green technology that will help alleviate Southern California’s intensive energy usage during the day. These behind-the-grid units, called Ice Bears, work by making ice at night when electric usage is minimal and then using that ice to cool air conditioners during […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ice-cooling-system-california/feed/ 0 55620 Southern California Implementing 53 MW Ice Energy Storage for Air Conditioning Systems https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ice-energy-storage-air-conditioning-20100524/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ice-energy-storage-air-conditioning-20100524/#comments Mon, 24 May 2010 07:35:34 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=7717 Ice can be used to store energy (though the other way we may be tempted to think) just like hot bricks or molten salt. Several Southern California municipal utilities will be implementing ice-based energy storage devices to reduce the air conditioning consumption in government offices and commercial buildings. Over the next two years, they will install 6,000 devices at 1,500 locations, storing around 53 megawatts of energy in total.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ice-energy-storage-air-conditioning-20100524/feed/ 1 7717 CALMAC Stores Surplus Wind Energy in Ice Banks https://www.greenoptimistic.com/calmac-stores-surplus-wind-energy-in-ice-banks-20091125/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/calmac-stores-surplus-wind-energy-in-ice-banks-20091125/#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:15:00 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=5503 While some green projects store the excess energy in a kinetic form, such as the fore-mentioned flywheels, others are inventing ways to use frozen water to collect surpluses from wind farms, which are more productive at night, when winds are stronger.

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