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World’s largest compressed air energy storage project comes online in China
The specs certainly look impressive. Let’s hope this thing works as designed. Definitely a promising approach.
World’s largest compressed air energy storage project comes online in China
Submitted 5 months ago by schizoidman@lemmy.ml to energy@slrpnk.net
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Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 5 months ago
kaboom36@ani.social 5 months ago
Wouldn’t this be horribly inefficient?
hitmyspot@aussie.zone 5 months ago
The tldr says 72% efficient. If it can store excess solar or wind from times they are not in use and release at times of higher demand, it should be great.
Better is always on the road to perfect.
kaboom36@ani.social 5 months ago
Yeah that isn’t as horrible as I had initially thought, though its still not great
You are right though something is better than nothing, but I wonder how this facilities cost compares to an equivalent battery storage facility
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Compared to what?
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
pumped water or flywheels maybe? you lose a lot of energy compressing gas to heat dissipation.
kaboom36@ani.social 5 months ago
I was thinking of lithium or sodium ion battery storage
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 5 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Chinese developer ZCGN has completed the construction of a 300 MW compressed air energy storage (CAES) facility in Feicheng, China’s Shandong province.
Previously, the largest CAES facility was a 100 MW project switched on in October 2022 by the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, also in China’s Hebei province.
It claimed that the facility was 30% cheaper than the 100 MW project built by the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics and said its overall efficiency is 72%.
The $207.8 million facility boasts an energy storage capacity of 300 MW/1,800 MWh and occupies an area of approximately 100,000 m2.
The facility has an estimated annual electricity generation of 600 TWh and is projected to save about 189,000 tons of standard coal consumption.
The project’s investor has disclosed plans to offer various ancillary services to generate revenue through participation in China’s electricity trading market.
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Wanderer@lemm.ee 5 months ago
The renewables movement will be won on finances and nothing else.
That sounds really promising.