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Article | REF: BE8100 V1

Electrical energy storage systems

Authors: Bernard MULTON, Judicaël AUBRY, Pierre HAESSIG, Hamid BEN AHMED

Publication date: April 10, 2013, Review date: January 18, 2024

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2.1 General information on energy storage

As we have already pointed out, it is often claimed that electricity cannot be stored, but this is not true . A special form of energy, electricity is rarely stored directly, but can be converted into other forms that can themselves be stored (gravitational potential, kinetic potential, chemical potential, etc.). Thanks to excellent conversion efficiencies in both directions (during charging and discharging), it can be restored, in many cases without any major thermodynamic limit,...

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