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More Great Links
- The Iowa Stored Energy Park Web Site
- The Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities Web Site
- Compressed Air Energy Storage on U.S. Department of Energy Web Site
- Wind Research: National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Sandia National Laboratories
Sources
- Aston, Adam. "Catching the Wind in a Bottle." BusinessWeek. Oct. 8, 2007. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_41/b4053092.htm
- Gardner, John and Haynes, Todd. "Overview of Compressed Air Energy Storage." Boise State University. December 2007. http://coen.boisestate.edu/WindEnergy/resources/ER-07-001.pdf
- The Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities Web Site http://www.iamu.org/
- The Iowa Stored Energy Park Web Site http://www.isepa.com/index.asp
- "Iowa to Combine Wind Energy and CAES Technology." Renewable Energy World. Jan. 12, 2007. http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story?id=47096
- "Iowa utilities still learning lessons from stored energy facility." Energy Services Bulletin. Vol. 26, No. 3, March 2007. http://www.wapa.gov/ES/pubs/esb/2007/mar/mar071.htm
- "Wind plus compressed air equals efficient energy storage in Iowa proposal." Energy Services Bulletin. Vol. 22, No. 4, August 2003. http://www.wapa.gov/es/pubs/ESB/2003/03Aug/esb084.htm
