News Formal

A Company Is Building a Giant Compressed-Air Battery in the Australian Outback

  • 📰 WIRED
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 23 sec. here
  • 6 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 27%
  • Publisher: 51%

Climate Desk News

Science,Environment,Energy

Hydrostor, a leader in compressed air energy storage, aims to break ground on its first large-scale plant in New South Wales by the end of this year. It plans to follow that with an even bigger facility in California.

The need for long-duration energy storage, which helps to fill the longest gaps when wind and solar are not producing enough electricity to meet demand, is as clear as ever. Several technologies could help to meet this need. But which approaches could be viable on a commercial scale? Toronto-based Hydrostor is one of the businesses developing long-duration energy storage that has moved beyond lab scale and is now focusing on building big things.

When it’s time to discharge energy, the system releases water into the cavern, forcing the air to the surface. The air then mixes with heat that the plant stored when the air was compressing, and this hot, dense air passes through a turbine to make electricity. The long-term viability of the technology will be closely tied to how its cost compares to other types of long-duration storage. The California plant has a projected cost of about $1.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.
We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 555. in NG

Nigeria Nigeria Latest News, Nigeria Nigeria Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Blaze damages Pa. winery occupying building that previously housed a fire companyFirehouse Winery in Shamokin suffered extensive damage in a fire that broke out on April 21.
Source: PennLive - 🏆 463. / 53 Read more »

The Tyler Hochman Interview: Building a B2B Workforce Analytics CompanyInterview with Tyler Hochman, CEO of FORE Enterprise.
Source: hackernoon - 🏆 532. / 51 Read more »

Unity Communications Founder on Building the CompanyExplore Patrick Brown's vision for Unity Communications, blending superior BPO services with his love for DJing.
Source: hackernoon - 🏆 532. / 51 Read more »

Jack Dorsey's payments company, Block, is building its own bitcoin mining systemThe company, formerly known as Square, now building a full bitcoin mining system.
Source: NBCNewYork - 🏆 270. / 63 Read more »