{"id":133634,"date":"2022-01-05T20:23:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T04:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/this-compressed-air-grid-battery-is-an-energy-storage-game-changer"},"modified":"2022-01-05T20:23:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T04:23:18","slug":"this-compressed-air-grid-battery-is-an-energy-storage-game-changer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/this-compressed-air-grid-battery-is-an-energy-storage-game-changer","title":{"rendered":"This Compressed Air Grid \u2018Battery\u2019 Is an Energy Storage Game Changer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cOWjwwKSR78?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Pumped hydropower is great. This method might be even better.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Two new compressed air storage plants will soon rival the world\u2019s largest non-hydroelectric facilities and hold up to 10 gigawatt hours of energy. But what is advanced compressed air energy storage (A-CAES), exactly, and why is the method about to have a moment?<\/p>\n<p>Compressed air is part of a growingly familiar kind of energy storage: grid-stabilizing batteries. Like <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/a31350880\/elon-musk-battery-farm\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/a31350880\/elon-musk-battery-farm\/\">Elon Musk\u2019s battery farm<\/a> in Australia and other energy overflow storage facilities, the goal of a compressed air facility is to take extra energy from times of surplus and feed it back into the grid during peak usage.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how the A-CAES technology works: Extra energy from the grid runs an air compressor, and the compressed air is stored in the plant. Later, when energy is needed, the compressed air then runs a power-generating turbine. The facility also stores heat from the air to help smooth the turbine process later on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pumped hydropower is great. This method might be even better. Two new compressed air storage plants will soon rival the world\u2019s largest non-hydroelectric facilities and hold up to 10 gigawatt hours of energy. But what is advanced compressed air energy storage (A-CAES), exactly, and why is the method about to have a moment? Compressed air [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1497,1506,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-energy","category-food","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}