This study investigates how a district with a high capacity of non-controllable renewable electricity generation can entirely self-consume its production at a community level either directly or for heating and cooli.
[pdf] The Santiago Pumped Storage Project, which will be located in Chã Gonçalves, in the municipality of Ribeira Grande de Santiago and will cost around 60 million euros, promises to significantly increase energy storage capacity, thus making it possible to increase the country's electricity production capacity.
[pdf] 300MW of storage capacity - enough to power 200,000 homes during blackouts. The system uses lithium-ion batteries (yes, like your smartphone) but scaled up to industrial proportions.
[pdf] Enel and Rome Fiumicino Airport have commissioned Italy's largest energy storage system with second-life batteries from electric cars. The stationary 10 MWh storage system uses a total of 762 battery modules from Mercedes-Benz, Nissan and Stellantis vehicles.
[pdf] Compressed-air-energy storage (CAES) is a way to for later use using . At a scale, energy generated during periods of low demand can be released during periods. The first utility-scale CAES project was in the Huntorf power plant in , and is still operational as of 2024 . The Huntorf plant was initially de. Researchers from North China Electric Power University have looked into methods for improving the efficiency of compressed air energy storage (CAES) systems, which are used to store excess energy from solar and wind power plants.
[pdf] In 2024, Oslo deployed floating battery arrays in Oslofjord, achieving: This project single-handedly reduced diesel backup usage by 73%—take that, fossil fuels! [7] Here’s where Oslo gets clever: converting surplus wind energy into heat stored in underground granite chambers.
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