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Storing energy at seabed as efficient as current energy storage plants

By Damir Beciri
19 May 2013

norway-seaThe idea where energy is stored at the bottom of the sea has been around for a while, and a group of Norwegian researchers decided to contribute to realization of that concept. In cooperation with researchers at SINTEF who develop the tanks employed by this method, they plan to use their patent pending technology to… »

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Improving thermal energy storage tanks with a concrete layer

By Damir Beciri
One Comment13 November 2012

uark-thermocline-tesEngineering researchers at the University of Arkansas came up with a thermal energy storage system that performs as a viable alternative to other currently available methods used to store energy collected from solar panels. Use of the newly developed design could increase annual energy production while significantly decreasing production costs of concentrated solar power plants,… »