MAN Energy Solutions indicators turbomachinery deal for Highview Power's 50MW LAES project

• MAN Energy Solutions is readied to offer the turbomachinery for Highview Power's 50MW/250MW liquid air energy storage space (LAES) project in Greater Manchester.

On Wednesday, the Volkswagen-owned engineering team officially authorized the deal to offer the equipment for the Carrington Town website at Highview's London office, having actually been picked as a possible supplier for the project in April.

Building began on the 50MW project in November 2020, which will make use of the LAES technology established by Highview. This functions by cooling ambient air and keeping it as a liquid at reduced stress, which can then be warmed and also expanded to drive wind turbines and produce electrical power.

The long-duration energy storage space innovation, which has actually been referred to as the CRYOBattery, is safe as well as has an inexpensive of possession over its life time, Highview Power asserts, with a megawatt-scale demonstrator project currently in operation near to the much bigger system's site.

The Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, hailed the project as a "world-first" which will show exactly how Greater Manchester is "putting itself at the forefront of the next industrial change in lasting low-carbon innovations".

"We understand that there are excellent green jobs in brand-new sectors simply waiting to be developed right throughout Greater Manchester as well as the North West, and also we hope that the Carrington storage center will assist us pioneer those abilities and also give a boost to our aspiration of becoming carbon neutral by 2038," Burnham stated.

The project is set up to reach business operation throughout next year and it will be run by Highview Power in collaboration with independent nuclear power plant developer Carlton Power.

In a fascinating sector parallel advancement, Malta Inc, a US-based developer of a novel 'pumped heat energy storage space' (PHES) modern technology signed a partnership a couple of days ago with Siemens Energy for the turbomachinery that its massive, long-duration storage space projects will need.