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Battery Seen as Way to Cut Heat-Related Power Losses

Several utilities, including Con Edison, National Grid and the large European utilities Enel and GDF SUEZ, have signed up to fine-tune and test what they hope could lead to an answer — a battery half the size of a refrigerator from Eos Energy Storage, the company said Tuesday. If the testing goes well, the batteries hold the promise of providing storage that until now has been unaffordable on a large scale.

"Energy storage is no longer an idea and a theory — it’s actually a practical reality," said Steve Hellman, Eos’s president. "You’re seeing a lot of commercial activity in the energy storage sector."

By DIANE CARDWELL

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/17/business/energy-environment/battery-seen-as-way-to-cut-heat-related-power-losses.html?hpw&_r=0

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