Oil Economy Focus Rapid Review
A 5MW/15MWh plant near Manchester in the UK will become the first operational demonstration of liquid air energy storage (LAES) technology at grid-scale. LAES technology stores air as a liquid and then converts it back to a gas, involving an expansion process that releases stored energy, and this drives a turbine to generate electricity. In addition to providing energy storage, the LAES plant converts waste heat to power using heat from the onsite landfill gas engines. The LAES technology can scale to hundreds of megawatts and could easily store enough clean electricity generated by a local windfarm to power a town for many days.
LINK TO THE SOURCE ARTICLE: Liquid air energy storage plant: World’s first at grid-scale
