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There are a few possibilities for grid-scale storage. Lightsail energy are planning compressed air storage at grid-scale and say they can get 750kWh of storage
by lotsofmangos 12y ago
There are a few possibilities for grid-scale storage.
Lightsail energy are planning compressed air storage at grid-scale and say they can get 750kWh of storage into a shipping container format, or much more underground by using caverns emptied by the oil and gas industry http://www.lightsail.com/ http://www.lightsail.com/
There is also Gravity-power who are planning underground mass storage in the 160MWh range http://www.gravitypower.net/ http://www.gravitypower.net/
And Isentropic, who are using hot gravel storage to build a 6MWh plant in the UK Midlands http://www.isentropic.co.uk/ http://www.isentropic.co.uk/
Also, there are developments in chemical storage like the Ryden battery, which could bring battery costs low enough to just put storage where the power is being used - http://powerjapanplus.com/ http://powerjapanplus.com/