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What are the best ways to match up long-duration energy storage technologies to applications and revenues? And what is ‘longer-duration’ storage and when will we need it? Florian Mayr and Dr Fabio Oldenburg at Apricum - The Cleantech Advisory offer some perspectives. This is a short extract of an article which originally appeared in Vol.26 of PV Tech Power, our quarterly journal and can be found in the Storage & Smart Power section contributed to each edition by the team at Energy-Storage.news.
Between five and more than 1,000 hours of energy discharge – that’s what the term “long-duration energy storage” encompasses in the industry today. It’s a very broad definition that covers a wide array of storage technologies and use cases.
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Highview Power demonstration project, also near Manchester, UK. Image: Highview Power.
Liquid air energy storage (LAES) company Highview Power has chosen Volkswagen subsidiary MAN Energy Solutions to provide turbomachinery which will form the core of a 50MW / 250MWh facility under development in northern England.
Highview Power s large-scale CRYOBattery is being constructed in Carrington Village, Greater Manchester. The MAN Energy Solutions turbomachinery train is to form the core of the liquid air energy storage facility, which Highview claims will be one of the largest battery storage systems in Europe once completed. As well as turbomachinery for marine, power plant and other applications, MAN is also known for its diesel engine technology.
Image: MAN Energy Solutions.
Highview Power has chosen MAN Energy Solutions to provide its LAES turbomachinery solution for its 50MW/250MWh CRYOBattery under development in Carrington Village, Greater Manchester.
The MAN turbomachinery train is to form the core of the liquid-air energy storage facility, which Highview claims will be one of the largest battery storage systems in Europe once completed.
Construction of the asset – which is being developed with Carlton Power – began in 2020, with plans for it to enter into commercial operation in 2022.
This construction is to proceed in two phases, with the first to involve the installation of a ‘stability island’ to provider near-instantaneous energy grid stabilisation. This is to be achieved using a generator and flywheel among other components. Enabling the short-term stabilisation will provide the basis for Phase 2 and the completion of the liquid-air energy storage system including various compressors, air expanders an
MAN Energy Solutions to partner on worldâs largest liquid-air energy-storage (LAES) project
Highview Power to deploy MAN LAES turbomachinery solution in its CRYOBattery long-duration application
MAN Energy Solutions to partner on worldâs largest liquid-air energy-storage (LAES) project. (Credit: MAN Energy Solutions)
Highview Power, a global leader in long duration energy storage solutions, has selected MAN Energy Solutions to provide its LAES turbomachinery solution to Highview Power for its CRYOBattery facility, a 50 MW liquid-air, energy-storage facility â with a minimum of 250MWh â located in Carrington Village, Greater Manchester (UK).
The liquid air energy storage plant uses cryogenically-liquefied air as a medium for storing energy. It is especially suitable for special applications that require large amounts of energy over a discharge time of several hours, and enables fluctuating, renewable sources to bear base-loads. The MAN turbomachinery train will