Newsletter June 2014
Hello everyone. Here’s what’s new.
Forbes explained how ice storage is a cost efficient way to cool commercial buildings while optimizing the power grid and the New York Times reported that while experts say that energy storage is crucial to transforming the electric grid into a clean, sustainable, low-emissions system, batteries are still expensive. Instead some users of commercial power are adopting energy storage in the form of ice.
Ice storage was also highlighted in industry publications including, Engineered Systems, which published the case study on the Hill School and featured the IceBank® tanks on the cover! BOMA published the article (pg.55) Thermal Storage Systems Give Building Owners Ultimate Flexibility. And in an interview with Renewable Energy Focus, CALMAC's CEO Mark MacCracken, explained the driving concepts behind the California Lottery Building and its net zero pavilion as well as emerging trends in the green building construction industry.
In more energy storage news, Trane released a new video on the ice-enhanced air cooled chiller. The ECO Report explained that electrical transmission losses of 5–7% are the norm today and that on a hot day electrical losses can rise to as much as 14%. CALMAC's Director of Energy Solutions, Evan Berger met a captive audience as he explained electricity prices at the Trane Acceleration tours in New Jersey and New York. CALMAC also partnered with Trane to meet up with leading energy minds at the Joint Venture Silicon Valley energy storage symposium.
Lastly, in international news, the Hindu Business Line reports that a new thermal energy storage program for consumers to lower peak demand has been launched. And the International Facility Management magazine published a blog and article by CALMAC CEO Mark MacCracken, Cooling Efficiency Through Energy Storage. (See the .pdf of the article attached.)
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- Cooling Efficiency Through Energy Storage, International Facility Management (blog)
- Thermal Energy Storage Essential to Future of Clean, Renewable Energy, International Facility Management (article)
- Renewables, Nuclear Must Triple to Save Climate, UN Says, Business Week
- Thermal Storage Systems Give Buildings Owners Ultimate Flexibility on page 54, BOMA magazine
- Ice-Enhanced Air-cooled Chiller Plant Video, Trane
- Ice or Molten Salt, Not Batteries to Store Energy, New York Times, New York Times
- Ice Storage: A Cost-Efficient Way to Cool Commercial Buildings While Optimizing the Power Grid, Forbes
- Chill Out: A Mechanical Study and Chiller Upgrades Revive School Infrastructure, Engineered Systems magazine
- California’s Fowl Problem: 10 Ways to Address the Renewable Duck Curve, GreenTechMedia
- Renewable Energy Focus Interview with CALMAC CEO
- Tata Power Launches Thermal Storage to Cut Peak Demand, The Hindu Business Line
- Demand Management Incentives- ConEdison of New York
- Transmission Grid Loss, The ECO Report
- US Congressional Action Could Help Advance Energy Storage Technologies, RenewableEnergyWorld
- National Climate Assessment
- Energy Storage- Greater Use of Wind Power & Benefits to Grid Operators, CleanTechnica
