Storage systems for transportation, land handling and naval applications

A confluence of industry, social, environmental and economical drivers is creating new interest in electric energy storage systems. The limitation in the energy resources availability, the continuing increasing of the fossil fuels cost and the more attention to the earth ecosystem, is making storage systems a suitable solution in many applications ranging from grid application toward the industrial and transportation ones. In this paper a review of actual electrical storage technologies suitable for transportation and naval applications is provided with particular attention to the functionalities that is possible to introduce according to the selected technology. Moreover, the applications of storage systems in land and naval handling will be analyzed in details underlining the advantages deriving by the introduction of opportunely chosen storage units.