- How Stuff Works: Battery - Illustrated explanation of battery function, types, and chemistry; related links. Good basic introduction to how batteries work.
- Car and Deep Cycle Battery FAQs - Understanding batteries and how to maintain them.
- How Power Paper Will Work - Explains the technical concepts behind ultra-thin battery technology and how paper-thin batteries could soon be powering a variety of everyday products. From 'How Stuff Works'.
- Lead Acid Battery Technology Comparison - Examine the differences in performance and cost of absorbed glass mat, gel, and flooded lead acid batteries in deep-cycle applications (marine, and RV).
- Ancient Inventions - Describes the history and operation of the Baghdad Battery - (c. 250 BC).
- Hydrogen as a Secondary Fuel - Large color photograph of the Hindenberg burning, with lecture notes on Hydrogen for Fuel Cells. Large Print, with an e-mail contact
- Inexpensive Electrical Energy Storage - Introduces a new, inexpensive full flow electrolyte battery for bulk energy storage.
- EV World:PacifiCorp to Install Vanadium Energy Storage System - Business Wire article says PacifiCorp will Install 'VESS' flow cell which converts chemical energy into electrical energy. 250 kW - 2000 kWh (8 hour)
- RWE Group Halts Regenesys Project - TVA (USA government) announces contractor encountered a number of engineering difficulties in flow battery during scale-up
- TVA to Build Power Storage Plant Storage Plant in Mississippi - USA government news release describes start of "the nation's first large-scale, battery-like power storage facility". Includes contacts.
- Regenesys Technologies Limited, Organization Details - Industry periodical database entry describes flow-battery maker and locates both projects.
- UK Innogy scraps Regenesys power storage project - Reuters article says parent company decided not to fund flow-battery technology development
- Telepower Australia Commercialisation Page - Outside SEI in Japan, Telepower Australia has more experience and technical know-how with VRB than anyone else. Link to bibliography.
- VRB Power - Site for company marketing Vanadium Redox Battery Energy Storage Systems. Includes QuickTime walkthrough of South Africa's VRB installation.
- PacifiCorp to Install Vanadium Energy Storage System - 250kW, 8hr VESS redox flow regenerative fuel cell system to go into Utah in June.
- Multimode Battery Energy Storage System For Custom Power Applications - 4 pp technical paper on system at Salt River Project. 200kW x 45 minutes.
- Army manuals - maintenance and operation for batteries and related equipment
- Ovonic NiMH Battery Featured at EVS-17 - 3,000 Miles for Only $60 Worth of Electricity
- Battery University - Analyzer and charger maker offers web version of book about batteries and how to charge them.
- TutorGig.com Encyclopedia article - Includes history, future, common types, standard sizes, hyperlinks to related information.
- Telepower and the PacifiCorp VRB/VESS - Sub-contractor explanation of why the Castle Valley, Utah installation is not working.
- All About Batteries - Information about battery history and science.
- Regenesys - Tennessee Valley Authority describes this technology to improve electric system reliability by using regenerative cells to store energy through a chemical process. Includes photos of the facility being built in Mississippi.
- Batteries and Fuel Cells - Comparison table includes energy density and volume.
- Argonne Technology Transfer: Batteries and Fuel Cells - Many links focus on fuel cells and Lithium-Ion batteries.
- Materials for Large Size Batteries and Fuel Cells - Page sells report which examines technologies and profiles companies involved. Forecasts markets.
- Green Batteries - Information on rechargeable batteries and battery chargers.
- Powerful lithium battery - More powerful, longer-lasting lithium batteries on the horizon with Sandia-developed materials breakthrough. Silicon and graphite: a materials match made in battery heaven.
- Battery Technologies - Short descriptions of new developments, with links to details.
- Magnesium battery patents - Compares Aurbach and Matsushita designs.
- Battery Technology Comparison - Rechargeable. Compares AA cells, a few larger batteries, and supercapacitors.
- Battery FAQ - Gel vs. SLA, deep cycles, ratings.
- Why do large battery packs fail early? - Resources for Design. Explains problems in batteries with many cells.
- New Technology Batteries Guide - Fundamentals of Battery Technology
- High Capacity Electrical Storage & Power Conditioning Units - outlines Plurions Cerium Zinc flow battery.
- Introducing Cerium Based High Energy Redox Batteries - 6 page paper on new technology. Includes discharge curves.
- Battery Review - tested small (AA) rechargeable batteries and chargers in a controlled environment.
- Premium Power Corporation - Energy & Power Storage Solutions, makes flow batteries for storage and power quality assurance.
- Glossary - terms defined.
- Battery (electricity) - Wikipedia entry includes picture of AA cells, circuit symbol, table of common sizes with designations and voltages. Discusses capacity and explosions.
- EuroPositron - Start-up preparing to make aluminum batteries for electric vehicles.
- Utility Scale Batteries - PESWiki entry from Pure Energy Systems. Includes ideas from readers.
- Chino Battery Energy Storage Power Plant - Engineer-of-record report. Energy Citations Database entry describes the largest battery in the world. Abstract of 653 page document.
- AEP'S Appalachian Power Unit to Install First U.S. Use of Commercial-Scale Energy Storage Technology - 1.2 MegaWatt sodium-sulfer battery. [requires login]
- Sodium Sulfur and Lithium-Metal-Polymer Batteries Show Commercial Promise - cites 100kW x 7 hr AEP system [EERE: News]
- AEP'S Appalachian Power Unit to Install First U.S. Use of Commercial-Scale Energy Storage Technology - [PRNewswire]
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