Enough Northwest US wind energy to power about 85,000 homes each month could be stored in porous rocks deep underground for later use, according to a new study. Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National…
We’ve all heard of CAES (compressed air energy storage). Normally, the expression brings grid-scale operations involving vast underground caverns to mind or, at the very least, a substantial plant such as LightSail’s headline-making design. But…
General Compression has secured a USD$60 million investment which will partly go towards funding the company’s first grid-scale energy storage demonstration project, reports Recharge News. The 2MW compressed air energy storage (CAES) project, which is already…
If you search for “energy storage” on Twitter you can count on a good dozen or so tweets being published every hour. But if you were online last night, you would have been getting several…
NYSEG, a subsidiary of Iberdrola USA, has told the US Department of Energy it will not move forward with a compressed air energy storage (CAES) project in the Town of Reading, Schuyler County. A number…
In the last issue of Energy Storage Report, we ran a story about Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) of California issuing an energy storage request for information (RFI), which we interpreted as the company dipping its…
Working with the energy company Hydrostor, a team at the University of Windsor, Ontario, has been testing a unique CAES system that stores compressed 50 - 500 meters below the water’s surface in high-strength polyester…