A Nation-Sized Battery?

Energy Policy

Volumn 45, Issue , 2012, Pages 263-267

  Pickard, William F ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispatchable energy; Intermittency challenge; Massive electricity storage

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATED OUTPUT; BATTERY TECHNOLOGY; DISPATCHABLE ENERGY; INTERMITTENCY; RENEWABLE SOURCES;

ENERGY POLICY;

ELECTRIC ENERGY STORAGE;

DEMAND ANALYSIS; ENERGY RESOURCE; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84859779619     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.02.027     Document Type: Article

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