Enhanced Frequency Response from a Liquid Air Energy Storage (LAES) plant

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Title
Enhanced Frequency Response from a Liquid Air Energy Storage (LAES) plant

CoPED ID
44e57303-f5a6-4671-a0e1-541f825bbe1f

Status
Closed


Value
£100,000

Start Date
Nov. 1, 2016

End Date
Jan. 31, 2017

Description

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Highview Power Storage is a UK based developer of energy storage systems which use liquid air as the energy storage medium. Liquid Air Energy Storage (LAES) systems, demonstrated for many years at pilot scale, will offer a bulk energy storage option that will add resilience and flexibility to the power network of the UK and to export markets around the world. LAES plants are built using established technology, sourced from a global mature supply chain, commonly found in the industrial gas and LNG sectors. A Pre Commercial Partial Demonstrator has been built at Pilsworth in Greater Manchester and is currently being commissioned. This system has received £8m in funding from DECC and the funds sought from Innovate UK for this proposed project will have additionality by converting the partial demonstrator into the world's first ever commercial scale full LAES system with rapid response capability. LAES systems function by using an electrically driven compressor based refrigeration system to condense air into a cryogenic fluid. The liquid air (LAIR) is stored in low pressure tanks until the system is required to discharge, at which point ambient (or waste) heat is applied and work is captured from the expanding gas in an expansion turbo generator (note that the generator is typically synchronous and as a result, naturally provides inertia to the system). Highview have developed a way to enhance the design of LAES systems in order to provide rapid enhanced frequency response services with future LAES plants. This project will explore a first of a kind deployment of their newly patented system innovations and ascertain the commercial benefit of entering future National Grid Enhanced Frequency Response tenders, in addition to the demand for similar services and faster response times in general around the world.

David Kaye PM_PER

Subjects by relevance
  1. Energy
  2. Warehousing
  3. Innovations
  4. Future
  5. Supply chains
  6. Liquefied natural gas
  7. Natural gas
  8. Markets (systems)

Extracted key phrases
  1. Enhanced Frequency response
  2. Liquid Air Energy Storage
  3. LAES system function
  4. Energy storage system
  5. Future National Grid Enhanced Frequency Response tender
  6. Future LAES plant
  7. Highview Power Storage
  8. Refrigeration system
  9. System innovation
  10. Bulk energy storage option
  11. Rapid response capability
  12. Frequency response service
  13. Energy storage medium
  14. Fast response time
  15. Liquid air

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