xtreme power Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 23 Mar 2015 19:56:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Texas Introduces World’s Biggest Wind Energy Storage System https://www.greenoptimistic.com/texas-largest-wind-energy-system-20130127/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/texas-largest-wind-energy-system-20130127/#comments Sun, 27 Jan 2013 08:25:16 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=32129 North Carolina’s Duke Energy has started operations in what it refers to as the biggest battery power system in the world. The Notrees wind farm facility, which cost $44 million and has a 36 MW capacity, uses some of the most advanced technology to store the energy being produced by the 153 MW renewable energy […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/texas-largest-wind-energy-system-20130127/feed/ 1 32129 SunPower To Use Ice and Batteries For Storing Solar Energy https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sunpower-ice-energy-storage-20100913/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sunpower-ice-energy-storage-20100913/#comments Mon, 13 Sep 2010 07:25:05 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=10225 Storage technologies are often a roadblock for alternative energy, because of its intermittent nature. Utilities producing power from wind or solar, for example, have to develop ways of storing the energy for the periods when there isn't such a great demand on the grid, and the produced power is higher than the consumed.

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