The appeal of national physicists on integrating renewable energy

See the news: 
New APS Report: Developing Energy Storage Technologies Among Crucial Steps Toward Increasing Renewable Electricity on Nation’s Grid

Integrate Renewable Energy On the Grid



APS (American Physical Society) developed a new report on integrating renewable energy. From the news, there are several recommendations made by the study for policy makers, regulatory agencies(DOE, FERC), forecasts providers, wind plant operators. The focus is mainly on energy storage, long-term transmission, business case and forecasting.

In addition to the perspectives in the report, I would like to make the following comments:
(1) The energy storage: besides searching for battery chemistries, it should be emphasized (worth exploring) that PHEVs could possibly act as economically viable storage devices after their usage is substantially increased (probably in need of government's promotions and subsidies).
(2) I highly agree with the viewpoint that regulatory agencies should develop response other than maintaining conventional reserve (the last point),but one aspect that should be included, besides energy storage and long-distance transmission,  is the demand response. Energy conservation or consumption shifting from peak hours to off-peak hours should be considered as a new type of reserve with great value to reduce the conventional reserve.

Integrate more renewable energy! Let's make effort together.

Learning and creating

I am working everyday, now as a phd student in electric power engineering, but soon will be an employee somewhere.
During my years as students, I can feel every little progress that I have made, and every new thing that I have learned. I enjoy them, and at the same time I feel I teach myself in this way, and most importantly, I can make full use of what I have learned to create useful things.
Now I start writing them down, and sharing with whoever have visited this blog and also got to know something that they did not know before.

By the way, this blog will be bilingual: English and Chinese.