To meet nitrogen purity requirements, the company needs a consistent supply of clean, dry compressed air going into the ...

EU-funded researchers are looking to hot air to overcome the supply and demand issues faced by solar energy and ease the clean energy transition. By Michael Allen As the world shifts toward renewable ...

Salt-water aquifers under British waters could hold 77-96 TWh of renewable-energy-powered compressed air for the two-month windows required of seasonal energy storage, according to a study conducted ...

Renewable energy production is growing rapidly globally thanks to technological advancement. However, intermittency of solar and wind power output has given rise to big demands for energy storage ...

Newly formed firm Energy Storage and Power plans to make compressed-air energy storage machines for utilities that need storage for wind and solar power sources. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

Clean energy resources, such as wind and solar, hold untold promise for a more sustainable energy future, but a big problem with these and other clean energy resources is their intermittent nature: ...

Intuitively, it seems that the water displacement stores about 1/2 the energy--the other half is in the form of heat generated during compression. That's why it's so important to store that heat in a ...

The system consists of a reversible compressor connected to a storage unit that can be installed indoors or outdoors. The compressor must be connected to the solar panels, with the whole system being ...

Decarbonizing the world's electricity grids won't be an easy task, but it is a necessary one if we're going to mitigate some of the worst effects of climate change. Since wind and solar power are ...

Every now and again you run across an idea that makes you think to yourself: “That's brilliant, yet so simple, I wonder why I didn't think of that!” In the case of electricity, we (all of us ...