Handbook of Energy Storage

The importance of Energy Storage in Energy Supply.- The Demand of Energy Storage .- The Technologies of Energy Storage.- Integration and Application of Energy Storage Solutions.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Sterner researches and holds courses on energy storage and regenerative energy industries at Regensburg University of Applied Sciences, and develops energy storage concepts for companies and municipalities. Together with colleagues, he previously launched the Power-to-Gas storage technology, which remains his chief research interest. He is a member of the VDE and serves as an advisor to the EU Commission (DG Energy) and Germany's federal government (BMWi). He is actively involved in coordinating the VDI, OTTI and Eurosolar energy storage conferences, and has co-authored additional books, including an IPCC Assessment Report.

Prof. Dr. Ingo Stadler's focus area is renewable energy, both in academia as well as in private sector projects. Since 2006, he is Professor for Renewable Energies and Energy Economics at TH Köln and one of the initiators of Cologne Institute for Renewable Energy (CIRE). He joined the scientific board of "Dubrovnik Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems" and he is a member of the Scientific Board of the annual conference "International Renewable Energy Storage Conference IRES". In 2006, Dr. Stadler finished his habilitation on "Demand Response: Non-Electrical Energy Storage for Electricity Supply Systems with high Renewable Energy Penetration". For more than a decade he was working as expert in the PV programme of the International Energy Agency IEA.