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Researchers develop a promising new technology for grid-scale energy storage - An interdisciplinary team of researchers from Drexel University have reported the development of a new technology for grid-scale energy storage which could provide a fast, efficient method for storing energy on the electrical grid. This new technology, dubbed the “electrochemical flow capacitor,” stores energy in the same way as a supercapacitor, but is much less costly to scale up for large, industrial applications. Reference: 'The Electrochemical Flow Capacitor: A New Concept for Rapid Energy Storage and Recovery,' Advanced Energy Materials, DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201100768