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1. Editorial: Energy Storage Critical to Solar Industry
  
  Explore Forbes Jul 21 2011 Solar Photovoltaic , Utility Grid
  
  At the Intersolar conference held last week in San Francisco, energy storage was covered in a pre-conference session, as if storage were an optional topic solar companies could ponder, rather than something critical to the industry’s future. Could it be that most solar folks are still [trying to understand] storage?
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  Mentions: California DoE Texas
2. World’s 1st Utility Baseload Solar Thermal Plant
  
  Explore Forbes Jun 21 2011 Utility Grid
  
  Torresol’s "Gemasolar" is a 19.9-MW plant with a 15-hour ‘battery’.
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  Mentions: Spain China Torresol Energy
3. IRS: Valence investor, Berg, understated income by $110M
  
  Explore Forbes Jun 7 2011
  
  The Internal Revenue Service says a venture capital business of billionaire Carl E. Berg, the unassuming, low-key New Mexico native who made his fortune in the Silicon Valley, understated its income by $110 million and owes $44 million in back taxes and penalties. ... Over the past two decades, Berg has spent more than $100 million for a 52% stake in Valence Technology, an Austin, Tex. company trying to develop batteries that will power cars. So far, there’s been no payoff. “This is a very tough business, but it has enormous potential,” Berg told Forbes earlier this year.
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  Mentions: U.S. Mexico Valence
4. Scale vs Stacking Benefits
  
  Explore Forbes May 20 2011 Utility Grid
  
  Given the steep capital costs of energy storage systems, storage technologies must be able to perform multiple services across different parts of the energy value chain.
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  Mentions: MIT Massachusetts
5. GE Determined to Develop Battery for Solar & Wind
  
  Explore Forbes May 2 2011 Solar Photovoltaic , Wind , Commercial & Industrial , Military , Utility Grid
  
  GE is determined to come out with a battery system that will store energy, but the investment costs are enormous because it needs to develop a massive storage system for a huge global customer base.
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  Mentions: GE Enersys Altair Nanotech
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