Grid-scale energy storage is now a given, but the dominant battery solution only serves short-term storage needs, leaving a significant long duration storage gap solved only by site-limited solutions, such as pumped hydro.
We have combined our expertise in supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2)-based power cycle technology and components with safe, low-cost, highly-scalable storage media to deliver a superior Long Duration Energy Storage system, called Pumped Thermal Energy Storage (PTES) — where excess generation and off-peak electricity is converted and stored as heat and is later converted back to electrical power.
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Key advantages
Pumped Thermal energy storage (PTES) offers key advantages over other advancing technologies, including:
- Low capital cost
- Full operational flexibility with no limit to cycling duty
- Safe, environmentally benign materials
- Zero augmentation costs
- Higher projected reliability
- Low environmental impact
- Competitive performance
- Long plant life with no performance degradation