Energy StorageProfessor Brian Collins, CB, FREng

Professor of Engineering Policy, UCL

Energy ecosystem

Different Technologies for different purposes

*SMES (Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage)

Electricity Storage Association (ESA)

Zinc – Air grid-scale battery technology

Seawater pumped reservoir

Beacon Power - Flywheels

Aerial view of Beacon Power’s 20MW flywheel energy storage plant in Stephentown, New York, which began operating in January. The facility stores and returns energy on a moment-to-moment basis to provide grid-stabilizing frequency regulation services.

The future

• A systems approach to energy generation, transmission and usage

• Large scale trials• Multidisciplinary engineering approaches• International collaboration• Economic and governance incentives• Sustained policy

Useful links

• http://www.raeng.org.uk/news/releases/shownews.htm?NewsID=626

• http://www.lowcarbonfutures.org/projects/smart-infrastructure/systems-modelling-and-energy-systems

• http://www.iea-eces.org/files/eces_strategicplan_2011-2015.pdf