California bottled sunshine

California, which offers 'green' ambitions to help the solar and wind power industry take root, is making strong increases in energy storage to achieve better synthetic renewable energy than the grid.

Governor Jerry Brown spoke at the Intersolar conference in San Francisco last month: 'We can't just rely on sunlight, we should bottle the sunlight.'

California's renewable energy storage technology is forced to provide one-third of the electricity to the state by 2020. This proposal opened up the industrial race and attracted major investors, like Peter Thiel, Vinod Khosla, a big name battery manufacturer like LG Chem. In addition, the race attracted both General Electric and Microsoft Corp founded by Bill Gates.

Opening of the first solar energy commercial plant eSolar in the desert city of Lancaster, California on August 5, 2009 - (Photo: Reuters)

Not only in California, Germany is also a pioneer in energy storage. Particularly in the US, in New York and Texas, some projects are underway under the support of the economic stimulus fund.

But the goal of state renewable energy issues: 'Storage levels are up to 1.3GW (1.3 billion Watt) by 2020 - enough energy to supply more than a million families.'

However, the energy storage business will face difficulties in how to cut costs and demonstrate technology, as the California Energy Commission has spent $ 1.7 billion to prove Our synthetic renewable energy storage technology at Ventura County Naval Base.

SunPower Corp CEO Tom Werner said: 'Currently, energy storage is not economical, but five years from now, I bet that I am not against it.'

Now many big businesses around the world are ready to bet on the energy storage industry with big international projects. It is certain, these capitalists, do not do it as a scientific experiment.