Why Energy Storage?

In addition to the enormous benefits that Energy Storage provides as a foundation for Clean Energy technology, large scale energy storage will allow today's electrical system to run significantly more efficiently. Greater efficiency means less pollution, lower prices, and more reliable power.

Generation

Today's electrical system is dominated by coal and natural gas powered generation facilities, most of which are operating significantly below their maximum efficiency. This inefficiency means that electricity generation costs more and pollutes more than it needs to.

Why do these inefficiencies exist? Every power plant has an optimal output where it is producing power as efficiently and cheaply as possible. If you either raise or lower the output of the power plant from this point, the efficiency of the plant falls... often considerably.

In today's electrical system, power plants must rapidly raise and lower their outputs to meet changing demand for electricity. This means that most power plants rarely, if ever, operate at maximum efficiency.

Large scale Energy Storage can be used to respond to these demand fluctuations, soaking up excess power when demand falls, and providing that stored power when demand rises. This will allow today's already established generation facilities to run constantly at their maximum efficiency, reducing costs and pollution considerably.

Transmission

Large scale Energy Storage systems, like that being developed by Velkess, can be used to allow old transmission lines to operate more efficiently and supply more power to consumers during high demand times.

The electrical transmission systems that supply cities like Los Angeles and New York were built when these cities where far smaller and demanded less electricity. During high demand times, like a hot summer afternoon, old transmission lines must run at or above their maximum designed capacity in order to satisfy this large and growing demand. As the amount of power transmitted through a line increases, the losses on that line rise exponentially, so running these facilities at such high levels is very inefficeint. Because of the high value of real estate around these urban centers and a public distaste for new transmission projects, it is very difficult to site and build new transmission lines to increase the amount of power that is available within a metropolis.

By using Velkess energy storage systems, municipalities can draw more power through their already available transmission lines at night time when demand is low, and store that energy for use during the day when demand is high. Velkess energy storage will allow these cities to provide for the power needs of their citizens more efficently, more cheaply, and more reliably.