Can you store my Electric Power?

Eventually, both urban and rural residents will face the electric power storage challenge if America will obtain energy independence. The potential of renewable energy sources are extremely high. Unfortunately, this potential has not been met with reliable innovation that can harness the immense renewable energy resources and deliver them in a usable form as a higher-value product. Basically we need a system that stores the electric power produced from renewable sources off-peak and releasing it during on-peak periods. Developing these resources will not only lessen environmental impacts but also lower the country's payments for imported energy.

Ideally, both urban and rural resident will begin to find ways to work together to help resolve the electric energy storage challenges. The two pressing issues that require synergy are location and timing.  First, many of the potential rural power generation sites are located far from transmission facilities which drives up cost and currently limits us to off-grid applications. Second, the timing is critical because electric power has a tremendous weakness: it must always be used precisely when it is produced. Thus, one of the greatest challenges facing the electric power industry is how to harness the immense renewable energy resources and deliver them as needed.

In the spirit of working for the common good, UTE members including myself are looking for rural landowners with 40 or more acres that would accept urban investments to development energy farms on their land. The investments would enable  rural residents to handle electric energy generation, storage and transmission. The following literature discusses the possibilities in more detail.