California Legislature passes energy storage bill | Grist

PG&E, for instance, plans to build an experimental facility that would tap electricity generated during peak wind farm production to pump compressed air into an underground reservoir. When demand jumps, the reservoir would release the air to run electricity-generating turbines which are capable of producing 300 megawatts of power.

75 months and counting ... | Andrew Simms | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Twenty five months ago, working with my colleague, a climate scientist, Dr Victoria Johnson, and others, I decided to find out how long it would take before, on the best data available, we would begin to cross red lines where climatic instability and extremes were concerned. A quarter of that time has now passed.

To minimise the danger of alarmism, but without hiding from the facts, we set our parameters to assume that humanity would be on the lucky end of the spectrum of environmental risk. We were optimistic, perhaps too much so, about the speed and likelihood with which ecological dominoes might fall in a warming world. Nevertheless, what we found was startling. One hundred months on from August 2008 we were set to cross an atmospheric threshold.

Hyundai Heavy Aims to Boost Wind-Power Sales 13-Fold - BusinessWeek

Sept. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., the world’s largest shipyard, plans to increase wind-power sales 13- fold as concern about climate change spurs demand for alternative energy.
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Daewoo, the world’s second-largest shipyard, said last week it aims to generate 30 percent of its total sales from wind power in 2020. The company’s revenue from the business is expected to reach $25 million this year and $300 million in 2011, it said.

Samsung Heavy, the world’s third-largest shipyard, is building a plant in South Korea to build wind turbines.