Researchers from Canada have analyzed the performances of an aboveground compressed air energy storage system (CAES) with both an experimental setup and a numerical model. A quasi-steady-state ...

Researchers in China developed a new compressed air energy storage system that uses flooded roadways in abandoned coal mines to store compressed air and heat for nighttime power generation.

Compressed-air energy storage, a decades-old but rarely deployed technology that can store massive amounts of energy underground, could soon see a modern rebirth in California’s Central Valley. To ...

For years, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has championed the potential of advanced compressed air energy storage (A-CAES), and now the feds are putting a whole bunch of money where their mouth is ...

In a significant advancement for renewable energy storage, researchers at the State Grid Hubei Electric Power Testing Research Institute (China), in collaboration with the China Energy Digital ...

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. As the world shifts toward renewable energy, one major ...

Hydrostor’s GEM A-CAES has received a conditional loan guarantee of up to $1.76 billion from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to build the Willow Rock Energy Storage Center, a cutting-edge compressed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. China’s Huaneng Group has reached a new milestone in energy storage with the launch of phase two of its Jintan Salt Cavern ...

Moving from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources like wind and solar will require better ways to store energy for use when the sun is not shining or the wind is not blowing. A new study by ...

The limitations of lithium-ion batteries are prompting a search for longer-duration solutions. Compressed air energy storage (CAES) and other emerging technologies are gaining traction as safer, ...

Broken Hill's hard-rock geology could hold part of the solution to Australia's energy storage problem as the country shifts to renewables. A 200-megawatt, $1 billion facility built by Canadian company ...