Compressed Air

An emerging technology called Adiabatic-Compressed Air Energy Storage (A-CAES) uses industrial air compressors to generate heated air, heat exchangers to extract the heat energy, and large underground tanks to store the pressurized cold air before remixing at the surface.

Siemens Energy, Corre Energy to collaborate on multiday compressed air energy storage

This agreement is meant to facilitate and accelerate Corre Energy’s international roll-out of integrated CAES and renewable energy infrastructure projects that support the global energy transition.

Hydrostor inks $250 million investment for energy storage growth

Goldman Sachs is investing $250 million to help the company build more than 1 GW/8.7GWh of its Advanced Compressed Air Energy Storage (A-CAES) projects in California and Australia. Some development is already underway.

Global energy storage market set to grow 20X by 2030; will hit one terawatt-hour

According to the latest outlook from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), energy storage installations will reach a cumulative 358 gigawatts/1,028 gigawatt-hours by the end of 2030, more than twenty times larger than the 17 gigawatts/34 gigawatt-hours online at the end of 2020.

‘We are uniting’: Long-duration energy storage competitors join forces at COP26

Normally competitors in the quest to deploy long-duration energy storage, and replace fossil fuels with dispatchable clean energy at all hours of the day, 24 companies joined forces at the COP26 United Nations climate summit to form the Long Duration Energy Storage Council.

Highview hires MAN Energy for UK cryogenic energy storage project

Energy storage company Highview Power has selected MAN Energy Solutions as a partner for a 50 MW liquid-air storage facility with a minimum of 250MWh in the UK. The plant in Carrington Village, Greater Manchester, uses cryogenically-liquefied air as a medium for storing energy which Highview says is especially suitable for special applications that require large amounts of energy over

Energy Cast is a regular podcast featuring some of the top experts across all links in the industry chain. Those include coal, nuclear, efficiency, renewables, oil and gas, as well as top government researchers. Longtime project manager Jay Dauenhauer created it and has been hosting Energy Cast for several years. Today we are talking about the right storage for the

Toronto-based energy storage firm acquired by Blackstone

Utility-scale energy storage, with the potential to enable a historic amount of renewable generation resources, also should increasingly attract high levels of investment in coming years. That forecast was borne out again this week when private equity giant Blackstone announced that funds within its Energy Partners division have completed the acquisition of a Toronto-based developer of battery storage solutions. NRStor

Compressed Air

Energy Cast is a regular podcast featuring some of the top experts across all links in the industry chain. Those include coal, nuclear, efficiency, renewables, …

Utility-scale energy storage, with the potential to enable a historic amount of renewable generation resources, also should increasingly attract high levels of …

DOE launches Grand Challenge to accelerate U.S. energy storage supply chain, deployment

The U.S. Department of Energy is accelerating its commitment to developing large-scale energy storage technologies. DOE Secretary Dan Brouillette announced the …

UK liquid air storage firm wants to challenge lithium ion in U.S.

Lithium ion battery installations dominate the energy storage market, but a United Kingdom firm is hoping to break that monopoly by developing the first liquid …

Highview Power bringing 50-MW cryogenic storage plant to UK

Cryogenic energy storage firm Highview Power is planning to build its first large-scale commercial facility in the United Kingdom, according to a Monday press r…

Utah clean energy storage project to combine hydrogen, salt dome assets

Herbert was joined by Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) and Magnum Development at the event to detail the Advanced Clean Energy Storage (ACES) project in …

Energy storage firm Highview Power partnering with TSK on global projects

The partners will work together to develop projects in Spain, the Middle East and South Africa. The projects could add several gigawatt hours of storage capacit…

Liquid Air Energy Storage firm Highview Bolsters Leadership Team

Together, Somerset and Brett bring more than 45 years of experience from the energy industry and have collectively overseen development and financing of more th…

Italian innovation on display at POWER-GEN International

The panel explored Electric Vehicles in particular, with an emphasis on how the coming transition to an electrified transportation sector will affect the utilit…

FERC Order 841 enables energy storage resources to compete in wholesale power markets and levels the playing field with conventional sources of generation….

FERC Order 841 comes more than a year after FERC concluded the rules governing the wholesale purchase of conventional sources of generation barred energy storag…

The order enables energy storage resources to compete in wholesale power markets and levels the playing field with conventional sources of generation….