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Our blog covers all things long-duration energy storage (LDES), energy policy, and energy transition.
Calculating the Need for Energy Storage
Current Calculations Currently each country and grid calculates its need for storage in a very complicated manner. They model various scenarios, projecting …
Grid Upgrades: Saving the UK Billions
The UK government and grid are planning £16bn grid upgrades as part of wider developments to accommodate an additional 17GW of new …
The Critical Challenges Renewables Pose and The Solutions
Enabling renewables to power grids affordably, reliably and resiliently is necessary. Storelectric has identified a number of critical challenges renewables pose for …
Interconnectors and Imports: Why the UK Risks Energy Insecurity
Interconnectors in Europe The United Kingdom no longer has enough domestically generated electricity for its own peak needs, and relies on imports …
Black Start: Rebooting Net Zero Grids
A Black Start is the process of independently restarting a power station or a section of the grid during a nation wide …
UK Energy Contracts: Why More Longer Durations Are Necessary
Since privatisation, UK energy contracts for major capital investment into infrastructure-scale plant and equipment that was not planned before privatisation have been …
Energy Storage: Vehicle to Grid and Shared Mobility
Vehicle to Grid (V2G) and Shared Mobility are two of the big buzz-phrases people roll out in the transportation sector as magical …
Doing My Bit for the Environment
I was recently asked: do renewable power plants impact the environment? Quite obviously the questioner was seeking to justify pursuing the fossil-fuelled …
CAES Alternatives: Demand Side Response, Batteries, and Others
Alternatives to CAES that provide arbitrage, balancing, ancillary, stability and other services include Demand Side Response (DSR), power stations, pumped hydro-electric stations, …
The Future Role of Hydrogen
The role hydrogen plays will be significant in zero-carbon economies in the future. To achieve all this, electrolysis needs to get much …
CAES Co-Location: Renewable Generation and Interconnectors
Storelectric’s CAES plants are usually designed as stand-alone plants with stand-alone profits based on buying electricity from the grid and selling it …
Adiabatic vs Isothermal CAES
Adiabatic and isothermal CAES are two different processes which sometimes get confused. The way each process treats heat during the compression and …