Opportunities For Local Power Storage and Alternative Energy Sources Today

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Research and Markets has announced the addition of Nano-engineered Energy Markets: New Opportunities for Electricity Generation and Transmission, Local Power Storage and Alternative Energy Sources to their offering.

Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Dec 10, 2004
Electrical grids worldwide face unprecedented challenges. Traditional sources of fuel for electricity generation are rising rapidly in price at a time when industrialization in China, India and elsewhere is pushing up the demand for electricity.

There are also huge environmental and political pressures to change the fuel sources that drive power stations and to run electricity grids more efficiently.

Nanotechnology appears to have a unique contribution to make in meeting these goals. Nano-engineering promises highly efficient new conductors and superconductors that could gradually replace current transmission facilities.

Nano-enabled solutions, such as supercapacitors, will create entirely new opportunities for local electricity storage and may gradually lead to new distributed architectures for electricity grids.

These new networks will lead to much lower rates of energy wastage. At the same time, nanoengineering is breathing new life into alternative energy sources -- especially solar power and fuel cells. These renewable energy sources may eventually play a significant role both in alleviating demand pressure on the grid and as direct sources of power for the grid itself.

This new report will pinpoint and quantify the opportunities for nano-engineered solutions in the electrical power industry worldwide.

It will examine timeframes and strategies for their implementation in the light of government subsidies, regulatory requirements, anticipated costs of fossil fuels and the huge costs involved in transitioning grids to new technologies. Forecasts will be broken out by application, technology platform and geography.

It will also take a look at what commercial firms are currently doing in this area and which nascent technologies and products seem likely to be commercialized over the next eight years.

The report will valuable to strategic planners at power companies, manufacturers of electricity industry plant and equipment, solar energy companies, battery and fuel cell firms, materials suppliers and a broad range of nanotechnology firms and investors.

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Idaho Lab, Utah Company Achieve Major Milestone In Hydrogen Research

Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Dec 08, 2004
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory and Ceramatec of Salt Lake City are reporting a significant development in their efforts to help the nation advance toward a clean hydrogen economy.