Stage of Development
Working quietly below the radar for the past five years, Highview has developed a novel utility scale storage and power system.
Hosted by SSE (Scottish & Southern Energy) and jointly funded by the UK’s Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC), we are currently testing a pilot demonstrator.
With full integration into the UK's national grid (regulation compliant), and delivering electricity on a daily basis, the plant demonstrates the practical operation of Highview's technology.
Technology
Cryogenic Energy Storage: our proprietary system, (we use liquefied air or liquid nitrogen as the storage medium), can deliver three services simultaneously:
i) energy storage;
ii) convert waste heat to power from co-located industrial or utility plants, including bio-mass and Energy from Waste plants; critically to include low grade heat;
iii) deliver cold: air conditioning, data centre cooling or refrigeration.
Downloadable presentation: Dr Tim Fox, 2012 Energy Storage Symposium
COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS
i) Highview Cryo Energy System (modular): energy storage system scalable from a few MWs to hundreds of MWs.
ii) Highview Cryo GenSet (modular): a zero emission alternative to a diesel genset or gas peaking plant. For more limited operations - e.g. back-up/security of supply/peak capacity.
News
Liquefied Air Could Power Cars and Storage Energy from Sun and Wind MIT Technology Review, 20th May
Two liquid air projects through to feasibility stage of competition Gasworld, 12th May
Highview Power Storage see interest from Chinese investors NewNet, 10th May
First commercial liquid air plant among UK competition winners The Engineer, 9th May
Renewable Power Could Be Stored as Liquid Air, U.K. Lobby Says Bloomberg, 9th May
Energy storage market makes case for 5GW target by 2020 Business Green, 9th May
£21million for carbon cutting technologies Department of Energy and Climate Change, Press Release, 8th May
The missing link: why Australia needs energy storage, The Conversation, 4th March
Into thin air: Storage salvation for green energy, New Scientist, 2nd January
Events
Highview has been invited to speak at a number of events during 2012. To see past and upcoming events where we will be presenting, please visit our events page.
A six-month study on the potential of liquid air as a new and sustainable energy vector, published by the Centre for Low Carbon Futures, will be presented at a one-day conference hosted by the Royal Academy of Engineering on the 9th May.
Find more about the conference

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