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Article: NPC Newsmaker Program - Renewable Energy: Grid, Power Experts to Discuss Compressed Air Storage.

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November 6, 2009
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Leaders from PJM, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and Energy Storage & Power, LLC (ESP) will detail the increasing need for compressed air storage for renewable energy at a National Press Club Newsmakers press conference at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, October 27, in the Zenger Room, 13th floor, National Press Building, 529 14th St., N.W., Washington, DC.

Participants will include PJM CEO Terry Boston, EPRI's compressed air storage expert Robert Schainker and ESP CEO Stephen Byrd. Boston, who manages the Mid-Atlantic grid, has long advocated for more options to store renewable energy to help PJM better manage its power flow. Schainker, who heads EPRI's Power ...

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