{"id":91,"date":"2013-09-25T03:13:28","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T03:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/2013\/09\/the-energetic-implications-of-energy-storage.html"},"modified":"2014-04-26T15:14:43","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T13:14:43","slug":"the-energetic-implications-of-energy-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2013\/09\/the-energetic-implications-of-energy-storage.html","title":{"rendered":"The Energetic Implications of Energy Storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When renewable energy sources such as solar and wind farms generate more electricity than consumers need, storing the excess doesn&#8217;t always make sense. Large, grid-scale batteries capable of storing the extra electricity are resource-intensive and costly to manufacture and maintain \u2014 sometimes more so than the energy they&#8217;re used to store.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.rsc.org\/en\/content\/articlelanding\/2013\/ee\/c3ee41973h#!divAbstract\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The energetic implications of curtailing versus storing solar- and wind-generated electricity<\/em><\/a>, Charles J. Barnhart et al, Energy &amp; Environmental Science, Issue 10, 2013. Open access. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2013-09\/su-ssc090913.php\" target=\"_blank\">Eurekalert<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/digest\/grid-scale_batteries_make_sense_for_solar_energy_but_not_wind_study_says\/3945\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yale Environment 360<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When renewable energy sources such as solar and wind farms generate more electricity than consumers need, storing the excess doesn&#8217;t always make sense. Large, grid-scale batteries capable of storing the extra electricity are resource-intensive and costly to manufacture and maintain \u2014 sometimes more so than the energy they&#8217;re used to store.&#8221; The energetic implications of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[68,18,69],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}