Highview Cryo Energy System (modular): energy storage system scalable from a few MWs to hundreds of MWs.

[Nick Balmer]

Hello,

On Claverton the subject of energy storage comes up regularly. There is an interesting website here for Highview who have developed a Cryogenic Energy Storage system using liquefied air or liquid nitrogen as the storage medium which, can apparently deliver three services simultaneously:

i) energy storage;

ii) convert waste heat to power from co-located industrial or utility plants, including bio-mass and Energy from Waste plants; critically to include low grade heat;

iii) deliver cold: air conditioning, data centre cooling or refrigeration.

See

http://www.highview-power.com/wordpress/?page_id=1320

If it is working, it could provide a way forward to addressing the problem of intermittancy in time.

Personally, I am not enough of a scientist to be able to assess its technical performance.

I would be fascinated to hear from he scientists amongst you, and to understand how it works, and what sort of efficencies it would deliver.

Regards

Nick Balmer