Citec, provider of Engineering and Information management services headquartered in Finland, has secured a first order from Highview Power, the UK based energy storage company.
Renewable sources such as wind and solar are increasing their share of the global electricity market, but supply and demand still present a big challenge.
However, Highview Power’s cryogenic technology uses liquid air to deliver clean, reliable and cost-efficient long-duration energy storage, which helps provide stability to grids using intermittent sources of renewable power. The systems liquefy air in tanks when power is cheap, for instance, when solar power is in surplus. Then they expand the liquefied air for use to drive a power-generator turbine when necessary.
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