As per energy storage news, approval is being sought for a 400MW advanced compressed air energy storage (A-CAES) project with eight hours of storage to be built in California by technology provider Hydrostor. The Canada-headquartered company is the first in the world to have built an operating commercial A-CAES facility, a much smaller 1.75MW project in Goderich, Ontario, with about 10MWh capacity based on its own technologies. Hydrostor has now filed an Application for Certification with the California Energy Commission for the 400MW / 3,200MWh Pecho Energy Storage Center it wants to build in the state’s San Luis Obispo County. Application for [...]
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Storelectric’s Green Hydrogen Patent for its invention, a Hybrid CAES (Compressed Air Energy Storage) / Hydrogen Energy Storage System has been granted in the United Kingdom. What does this give them? We estimate it gives them control of 50% of the green hydrogen market in the United Kingdom. The US, EU, China and Canada are patent pending, with other patents due for submission for ROR. The patent does not in any way cover Grey or Black Hydrogen, but this hydrogen is produced using fossil fuels and thus produces emissions. Presently most of the global market for Hydrogen is grey or black hydrogen, [...]
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