Newsletter January 2019
At the recent ASHRAE conference, Mark MacCracken, CALMAC® VP, Portfolio Leader at Trane spoke to a packed session on Building Energy Storage: The Future of the Smart Grid. On the show floor, attendees toured the Trane booth and got to see the latest facts on the Thermal Battery™ cooling system featuring CALMAC Ice Bank® tanks. Wasn't there? Here are some highlights from the show.
In other news, a new study found the energy storage market in North Carolina could exceed 1 GW by 2030. And MacCracken explains how for a zero net energy building or for grids increasing in solar or wind, energy storage can provide additional energy agility to help optimize the energy generation mix in the article, "How energy storage is part of energy management".
Energy storage news
- AHR 2019 Highlights
- North Carolina energy storage market could exceed 1 GW by 2030, says study by universities, UtilityDive
- How energy storage is part of energy management, Energy Efficiency Manager, Vol 2/2018, www.seemindia.org
- The balance of power – modelling a microgrid in Durban, South Africa, CIBSE Journal