Look into natural gas trading and scheduling. There's already an entire body of knowledge around storing energy, and sophisticated automated contracts, financia

Look into natural gas trading and scheduling. There's already an entire body of knowledge around storing energy, and sophisticated automated contracts, financial instruments, laws, and regulations. "Pools" are just energy storage, and the same geologic features used for those facilities could be used for compressed air storage. (EDIT: I used to do this software!)