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Electricity Energy Storage Technology Options
A White Paper Primer on Applications, Costs, and Benefits
1020676

Electricity Energy Storage Technology Options
A White Paper Primer on Applications, Costs, and Benefits
1020676

Technical Update, December 2010

EPRI Project Manager D. Rastler

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This report was prepared by Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) 3420 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, California 94304 Principal Investigator D. Rastler EPRI wishes to thank the energy storagevendors, system integrators and industry stakeholders who provided valuable input and comments and input to this document. EPRI would like to thank and acknowledge Eric Cutter, David Miller and Lakshmi Alagappan at Energy and Environmental Economics, Inc., who provided detailed analytics and supporting analysis. EPRI also likes to thank and acknowledge David Gauntlett at AECOM who worked very closelywith participating vendors, suppliers and system integrators in compiling the extensive background data which is summarized in this report. The author would also like to thank his close colleagues at EPRI for their support and valuable comments: Ben Kaun, Haresh Kamath, Bill Steeley, Robert Schainker and Sean Wright. This report describes research sponsored by the Electric Power ResearchInstitute (EPRI).

This publication is a corporate document that should be cited in the literature in the following manner: Electric Energy Storage Technology Options: A White Paper Primer on Applications, Costs, and Benefits. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA, 2010. 1020676. iii

ABSTRACT
A confluence of industry drivers—including increased deployment of renewable generation, the high capital cost of...