Manchester will be the home of a new cold energy storage plant as a new commisson shows.
The plant will store energy cryogenically from a mixture of renewable and off-peak generation with a process involving chilling the air into a liquid form. Once the air is warmed back up it will expand and power a turbine into generating electricity.
It is predicted that up to 5,000 homes could be powered for about three hours from the 5MW energy plant run by Highview Power Storage. The company believes that this technology has real potential and could be further improved for long-term use with green sources.
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