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What is Compressed Air Energy Storage?

Compressed Air Energy Storage is one of the emerging technologies for storing energy. One method - because the wind doesn't always provide enough energy for wind turbine generators to generate electricity, will store the wind energy when they generate power and "off-peak electricity" to pressurize and store air underground.  The air can be used later, by releasing it to drive generators.

The Department of Energy (DOE) is presently working with several states to build Compressed Air Energy Storage parks, which would integrate a 75- to 150-megawatt (MW) wind farms, that are integrated with the Compressed Air Energy Storage parks.   Before a Compressed Air Energy Storage can be used, the underground caverns that store the wind energy, must be of the right geological size, depth formation and cap rock structure.

Compressed Air Energy Storage facilities will operate on off-peak electricity during nighttime hours. They will use the output from nearby wind power plants to operate when overall demand on the power grid is low and the utility dispatcher has curtailed output from the wind power plant. During the energy storage cycle, a compressor pushes air into the porous rock that may be several thousand feet underground and beneath the layers of impermeable cap rock. When demand for electricity rises, the stored air will be released, heated, and used to drive electric generators.

Compressed Air Energy Storage has been in use for more than 20 years in demonstration projects, and two facilities — one at 290 MW in Huntorf, Germany that began operations in 1978, and one in McIntosh, Alabama, that began operating in 1991. The Compressed Air Energy Storage in Alabama is rated at 100 MW. 

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