Ontario does not need another storage technology startup searching for a problem today. It needs capacity, flexibility, and reliability in specific places where the grid is constrained and where new generation and wires take years to build. That is the right way to look at Hydrostor’s proposed Quinte Energy Storage … [continued]
Trump or no Trump, new large scale compressed air energy storage facilities can replace fossil power plants, including power plants in the US.
Whether it’s a malicious authoritarian plot or plain old bureaucratic bungling, President Trump has compromised air safety, public health, and national security, and capitulated to Russia, all within his first 30 days in office. That’s just the short list, and the hurts keep on coming. Nevertheless, clean energy investors still … [continued]
Use of underground formations for cost-competitive compressed air energy storage systems, image courtesy of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
A new analysis indicates that compressed air energy storage systems can beat lithium-ion batteries on capex for long duration applications.
Quidnet Energy deploys underground rock formations for new pumped hydropower energy storage system (image courtesy of Quidnet).
The US startup Quidnet Energy is leveraging oilfield know-how to bring a new underground pumped hydro energy storage system to Texas.
New long duration, large scale compressed air energy storage system leverages simple water pressure to cut costs.
New long duration, large scale compressed air energy storage system leverages simple water pressure to cut costs.
Image: The investor environment for offshore wind farms could benefit from co-locating storage systems based on supercooled liquid air (courtesy of Highview Power).
The leading offshore wind stakeholder Ørsted is betting on “liquid air” long duration energy storage to build the business case for wind.
If you say energy storage today, most people think you are talking about batteries. The intermittency of renewable energy sources such as solar and wind means sometimes there is more electricity available than is needed. Batteries can take that excess electricity and store it until such time as it can … [continued]
In Israel’s recent solar-plus-storage tender, at least 120 MWh of storage will be from CAES systems built by Augwind.
Researchers in the UK claim injecting high pressure air into the porous sandstone beneath the North Sea could store enough energy to meet all the country’s energy needs during the winter. It might be the ideal way to store energy from offshore wind turbines.
Hydrostor, a Canadian company, says it has developed a new compressed air energy storage system that is half the cost of grid-scale batteries and equal to the cost of a new natural gas powered generating plant.
