Compressed air energy storage project signed
A group of local governments announced Thursday it’s signed a 25-year, $775-million contract to buy power from what would be the world’s largest compressed-air energy storage project.
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What is a compressed air energy storage project?
A compressed air energy storage (CAES) project in Hubei, China, has come online, with 300MW/1,500MWh of capacity. The 5-hour duration project, called Hubei Yingchang, was built in two years with a total investment of CNY1.95 billion (US$270 million) and uses abandoned salt mines in the Yingcheng area of Hubei, China’s sixth-most populous province.
What is advanced compressed air energy storage (a-CAES)?
They will run on an updated version of the technology called advanced compressed air energy storage (A-CAES). A-CAES uses surplus electricity from the grid or renewable sources to run an air compressor.
What is compressed air energy storage (CAES)?
Among the different ES technologies, compressed air energy storage (CAES) can store tens to hundreds of MW of power capacity for long-term applications and utility-scale. The increasing need for large-scale ES has led to the rising interest and development of CAES projects.
How many compressed air storage projects are there in the world?
For decades, there were only two operating compressed-air storage projects worldwide, at salt domes in Alabama and Germany. Another challenge is that those projects depend in part on natural gas.
Will compressed air be viable?
Some of the biggest questions surrounding the viability of compressed air involve economics. Hydrostor expects its Kern County project to produce just 60% to 65% of the electricity it consumes — a larger loss of energy than with lithium-ion batteries and several other kinds of storage.
What is compressed air storage?
Compressed-air storage existed before Hydrostor—plants in Germany and Alabama have been around for decades and use variations on this approach. Hydrostor’s system uses a supersize air compressor that ideally would run on renewable electricity.