Thought Leadership Blog
Enabling Renewables to Power the Grid
Technology enabling renewables to power the grid is necessary to facilitate the green energy transition. Storelectric offers safe, clean and cost-effective energy …
Water Levels, Heat and Energy
If you see me, weep Water levels in many great rivers are dropping to critical levels and below, due to high temperatures …
Hydrogen Transportation and Storage
There is much discussion on how to store and transport hydrogen, with diverse methods being proposed. I will focus on the storage and transportation at massive (i.e. infrastructure) scale.
A 21st Century Electricity System
Introduction The current regulatory and contractual framework is designed around a 20th century industry (baseload coal and nuclear, dispatchable gas, all other …
Interview with Proactive
Storelectric’s Mark Howitt highlights enormous opportunity for compressed air energy storage
Analysis of National Grid Future Energy Scenarios 2022
National Grid’s Future Energy Scenarios 2022 (NG’s FES 2022) is a small step forward on their 2021 document. It contains broader, for …
Holistic Network Design: National Grid Pathway to 2030
National Grid has taken a positive step forward by producing a Pathway to 2030 Holistic Network Design. We welcome its consideration for …
Hydrogen and CAES: Complementary but Different
Hydrogen is increasingly being touted as the ideal technology for both electricity storage and balancing renewable generation on the grid. However, the …
Grid Stability and Power Quality Challenges
The challenge of grid stability currently costs the grid about a half of energy balancing, but it is growing faster; within a …
Challenges of the Electricity Transition
Most people discuss electricity storage as though the challenge were just energy: balancing renewables, providing enough energy when they’re not generating as …
Electric vs Fuel Cell Vehicles
Introduction There are merits to both electric vehicles powered by lithium-ion batteries and fuel cell vehicles powered by hydrogen. Each technology has …
The Political and Regulatory Challenges facing the Energy System
There are many current issues facing the energy system which are challenging enough without confusing political challenges with regulatory ones. Too many political challenges are being given to regulators to sort out, which is grossly complicating matters for all parties.