21st December, Gasworld
First Liquid Air energy report ready
Global engineering consultancy, Arup, and leading privately-owned industrial gas company, Messer Group, sponsor first Liquid Air Energy report.
A group including leading academics, research institutions, industry and policy experts is producing a White Paper to explore the energy and economic potential of liquid air, and whether it should – and can – become a new strategic sector in the global ‘clean tech’ ecosystem.
18th December, Plant Engineer
First liquid air mainstream energy report gets underway
Cryogenic energy storage plant is taking another step out of the laboratory towards full scale production, with the announcement that global engineering consultancy Arup and gas giant Messer Group are sponsoring the first liquid air energy report.
07 December, CNN
Liquid air future fuels garage inventor
Watching Peter Dearman at work amid the clutter in his garage cum workshop, it’s easy to see why one of his sons refers to him as a sort of “nutty professor.”
The British inventor has been tinkering with “liquid air” engines at his home in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire for more than three decades.
Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/07/tech/dearman-liquid-air-storage/index.html
28 November, Gasworld
Liquid air company recognised at IET Innovation Awards
UK company Highview Power Storage, a developer of Liquid Air Energy Storage systems, has won the Sustainability Award from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Innovation Awards.
The awards recognise the most innovative companies worldwide operating within a wide variety of engineering and technology disciplines. Winners were chosen from 430 entries, from 25 different countries.
Read more: http://www.gasworld.com/news/liquid-air-company-recognised-at-iet-innovation-awards/2001499.article
05 November, Professional Engineering
Highview explains liquid air plans
Highview Power Storage has released additional details of how its liquid air energy storage system would work on a commercial scale.
The system, which is being trialled at a plant in Slough, provides a potential method of storing and releasing intermittent energy from renewable sources as an alternative to “pumped hydro” electricity storage schemes.
Read more: http://profeng.com/news/highview-explains-liquid-air-plans
31 October 2012, IMechE
Pioneering British technologies that could help to store energy
The first – liquid air technology – is a hugely promising method of storing ‘wrong-time’ renewable energy without the need for expensive and geographically constrictive pumped-hydro plants, and one Bishop Stortford engineer is even working on a liquid air engine for use in transportation. The idea of liquid air as an energy vector is not new. Scientists first liquefied air in 1883, and within 20 years the Liquid Air Car Company had produced a vehicle that would run on it.
07 October 2012, Sky News
Liquid Air Could Be The Fuel Of The Future
Cars, homes and factories could be powered using the air we breathe in the future, according to engineers at a special summit.
British scientists developing the technology say normal air can be used to store energy by cooling it to -190C, turning it into a liquid.
Read more: http://video.sky.com/news/related/52351/1/Liquid Air A New Renewable Energy/true
04 October 2012, ABC Radio Melbourne
ABC Radio Melbourne: Breakfast with Red Symons
Listen to Dr Tim Fox on Australian radio.
04 October 2012, NBC News
‘Frozen air’ could heat up renewable energy
The journey to a cooler, greener planet may start with a breath of fresh air, suggests a battery technology under development that could rapidly solve one of the biggest problems with wind and solar energy.
Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/futureoftech/frozen-air-
03 October 2012, Professional Engineering
Liquid air makes a splash
Liquid air made a splash. Sadly it’s not often that an engineering story – unless it’s a nuclear reactor going into meltdown or an aircraft downed by a birdstrike – gets a lot of airtime in the mainstream media. But yesterday’s carefully co-ordinated effort by the IMechE, Highview Power Storage, a number of academics and the automotive engineering consultancy Ricardo to make the world sit up and pay attention to liquid air paid off.
Read more: http://profeng.com/ben-hargreaves/liquid-air-made-a-splash
03 October 2012, Discovery Channel
FROZEN AIR ‘BATTERY’ STORES WIND TURBINE ENERGY
Liquid air, which can be frozen, stored and warmed later, could work better than batteries or fuel cells to store energy from wind turbines or other renewables.
The technology was originally developed by Peter Dearman, a garage inventor in Hertfordshire, U.K., to power vehicles. For the past several years, U.K. tech firm Highview Power Storage has been working to transfer Dearman’s innovation to a system that can store energy for power grids.
Read more: http://news.discovery.com/tech/liquid-air-powers-wind-turbine-121003.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1
02 October 2012, Professional Engineering
Cold Storage
A number of concerns are frequently cited when considering electricity supply: whether renewables can be developed quickly enough to meet targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; whether the economic climate is right to encourage investors to build nuclear power stations; and whether gas-fired power stations should be fitted with carbon capture and storage technology.
Read more: http://profeng.com/features/cold-storage/page:1
02 October 2012, BBC Radio Devon
Dr Tim Fox from IMechE discussing Liquid Air.
02 October 2012, BBC Radio Scotland: Newsdrive
Dr Tim Fox from IMechE discussing Liquid Air.
02 October 2012, BBC Radio 5: Breakfast
Dr Tim Fox from IMechE discussing Liquid Air.
02 October 2012, BBC Radio 4: Today Programme
Dr Tim Fox from IMechE being interviewed by Roger Harrabin about Liquid Air.
02 October 2012, BBC News
Liquid air ‘offers energy storage hope’
Turning air into liquid may offer a solution to one of the great challenges in engineering – how to store energy.
The Institution of Mechanical Engineers says liquid air can compete with batteries and hydrogen to store excess energy generated from renewables.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19785689
28 September 2012, Gasworld
Liquid air official launch next week: a glimpse at our energy future?
We’re at a crossroads in the quest for energy security, with sustainable solutions required to ensure our energy security – and one of these proposed solutions will be discussed at a high-profile launch event next week.
27 September 2012, Renewable Energy Magazine
Liquid air: A new industry for UK plc?
Leading academics, senior government officials and industry executives will meet at the UK’s Institution of Mechanical Engineers on Tuesday 2 October to consider how liquid air can help deliver a zero carbon economy.
Read more: http://www.renewableenergymagazine.com/article/liquid-air-a-new-industry-for-uk-20120927
26 September 2012, Plant Engineer
Liquid air to fuel UK low carbon engineering economy
Academics, government officials and industry executives will meet at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers on 2 October to kick off a programme aimed at harnessing liquid air to deliver a zero carbon economy and boost British business.
22 August 2012, Tech Week Europe
Is Liquid Air Energy Storage The Key To Making Data Centres Green?
Cryogenic storage can be switched on very quickly – it’s literally as easy as turning on a tap. So the specs are probably as good as diesel generators, but without any on-site pollution.
The way it would work is as follows: the data centre invests in some more backup cryogenic storage than it would need in a power cut, and charges the system up during off-peak hours. Hours of peak demand for electricity probably coincide with peak demand for data centre services (in business and leisure hours, people do a lot of Facebook and social media).
Read more: http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/comment/data-centres-liquid-air-energy-storage-90142
14 August 2012, Cape Business News
Basil Read’s high power partnership
UK energy storage company, Highview Power Storage and Basil Read Energy (BRE), a wholly owned subsidiary of Basil Read, one of Africa’s largest construction, engineering, mining and energy companies have formed a partnership for the commercial deployment of Highview’s proprietary energy storage technology in South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.
29 July 2012, Green Data Center News
Cryogenic Energy Storage for Data Centers by Peter Judge
Liquid air isn’t the most obvious energy storage system, but it is being proposed to help solve the problems of the electrical grid. I wonder if it could also help sort out some of the issues in data center power.
18 July 2012, Gasworld
UK company to help solve South Africa’s energy constraints
Highview is the first UK company to secure overseas commercial agreements in the fast-growing energy storage
market. This latest arrangement gives exclusive rights to BRE to deploy and implement Highview’s proprietary
cryogenic energy storage technology in their markets.
12 July 2012, Power-Technology.com
The right mix: technologies to store wind power
One of the most promising new storage technologies to emerge in recent years apart from battery systems has been developed by engineers at UK-based Highview Power Storage. By building the world’s first prototype of a liquid air energy storage system in 2010, it not only won The Engineer Technology and Innovation Award in December 2011, but also developed a potential solution to several of the sector’s issues.
Read more: http://www.power-technology.com/features/featurewind-energy-storage-batteries-kodiak-alaska/
12 July 2012, Recharge
Liquid air energy -storage set for the big time after German deal
UK technology developer Highview Power Storage (HPS) expects to see the first multi-megawatt plant using its liquid air energy-storage (LAES) concept built next year, after signing a commercialisation deal with German industrial gases group Messer.
Read more: http://www.rechargenews.com/business_area/innovation/article317683.ece
11 July 2012, New Energy World Network
UK’s Highview secures African deal for storage system
UK-based Highview Power Storage has partnered withBasil Read Energy (BRE), a subsidiary of African construction company Basil Read, to commercialise Highview’s energy storage technology.
The companies will be engaged in developing the cryogenic solution in the sub-Saharan region of Africa.
11 July 2012, BusinessDay
Basil Read Energy in energy storage deal with UK’s Highview
BASIL Read Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of construction company Basil Read, on Tuesday announced a strategic partnership with Highview Power Storage, the UK energy company, to develop Highview’s energy storage technology commercially in Southern Africa.
Read more: http://www.businessday.co.za/Articles/Content.aspx?id=175982
11 July 2012, Bloomberg Business Week
Basil Read to Develop Highview’s Technology, Business Day Says
Basil Read Holdings Ltd. (BSR)’s energy division agreed to develop London-based Highview Power Storage Ltd.’s technology in sub-Saharan Africa, Business Day reported, citing Highview Chief Executive Officer Gareth Brett.
11 July 2012, Engineering News
Company Announcement: Strategic Partnership between Highview Power Storage and Basil Read Energy
Under the terms of the agreement, BRE has the exclusive rights to deploy of Highview’s technology both in South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. Highview receives technology licence fees per MW installed. The team has commenced a feasibility study for a specific first site, expected to be a 10MW plant with more than 50MWh of stored capacity.
11 July 2012, Highview Press Statement
Liquid Air Energy Storage technology to help ease South Africa’s energy constraints
Award-winning UK energy storage company, Highview Power Storage and Basil Read Energy (BRE), a wholly owned subsidiary of Basil Read, one of Africaʼs largest Construction, Engineering, Mining and Energy companies and a listed entity on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange (JSE), announce a strategic partnership agreement for the commercial deployment of Highviewʼs proprietary energy storage technology in South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.
11 July 2012, Energy Live News
World first ‘frozen air’ storage goes commercial
Generating energy from the air we breathe is now a step closer as the world’s first pilot plant for liquid energy storage (LAES) has been commercialised.
Designed by a British firm, the new process has only been tested at the pilot plant in Slough but it could now spread after getting a vote of confidence from the Messer Group last week.
Read more: http://www.energylivenews.com/2012/07/11/world-first-‘frozen-air’-storage-goes-commercial/
09 July 2012, New Energy World Network
UK’s Highview partners with Messer to commercialise storage solution
UK-based Highview Power Storage has partnered with German industrial group Messer to commercialise Highview’s energy storage technology.
06 July 2012, Plant Engineer
Strategic partnership for Liquid Air Energy Storage
Messer Group will use Highview’s cryogenic energy storage technology while Highview gins access to Messer’s engineering expertise in gas liquefaction.
06 July 2012, Green Tech Media
Energy Storage Update: Zinc-Air and Frozen Air Move Forward
Of course, the key to Highview’s approach is to have lots of industrial gases available to freeze and unfreeze. Messer, which operates about 70 cryogenic air separation plants in Europe, Asia and South America, plans to integrate Highview’s technology into its plants, and holds an exclusive license to use it in those settings, while leaving Highview free to develop projects that aren’t co-located or connected with industrial gas production.
05 July 2012, Eureka
Liquid air energy storage technology edges closer to commercialisation
A solution to one of the most pressing problems facing large scale wind power – how to store surplus energy when the wind is blowing and release it when the weather is calm – has edged one step closer to commercial realisation.
05 July 2012, Highview Press Statement
Strategic partnership for Liquid Air Energy Storage
Highview Power Storage, a UK technology developer, and Messer Group, the world’s largest owner-managed international industrial gases company, announce a strategic partnership agreement towards the commercial realisation of Highview’s energy storage technology.
Read more: http://www.highview-power.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/HPS-Messer-PR-05.07.2012final.pdf
05 March 2012, Dr Tim Fox, 2012 Energy Storage Symposium.
Presented at Columbia University, U.S.
Read more: http://energy.columbia.edu/sitefiles/file/Tim%20Fox%20Day%201.pdf
05 March 2012, Green Tech Media
Liquid Air for Utility-Scale Energy Storage?
It takes plenty of electricity to make air cold enough to turn from a gas into a liquid. What if you could reverse that process and turn that energy sink into a source of energy storage?
U.K.-based Highview Power Storage is trying out just that technology right now, in a 300-kilowatt, 2.5 megawatt-hour pilot plant built at a Scottish & Southern power station outside London that’s feeding stored energy into the grid.
Read more: http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/liquid-air-for-utility-scale-energy-storage/
27 February 2012, Renewable Energy Magazine
Could “liquid air” be answer to problems of wrong-time energy?
UK company Highview Power Storage has built and tested the world’s first Liquid Air Energy Storage plant; and, with solutions to manage wrong-time wind energy an urgent priority, the technology has picked up a number of engineering and energy awards, including the prestigious Grand Prix Prize at The Engineer 2011 Technology and Innovation Awards presented at the Royal Society in December.
21 February 2012, Cogeneration & On-site Power Production
UK firm in talks to push power storage scheme to market
A means of storing at least 200MWh of excess electricity generated by wind turbines is being developed by UK-based Highview Power Storage.
The company is in talks with several UK and continental Europe-based firms with a view to pushing the technology towards commercial-scale operation, Highview Power Storage chief operating officer Toby Peters told ICIS Heren on Friday.
Read more: http://www.cospp.com/news/2012/02/21/uk-firm-in-talks-to-push-power-storage-scheme-to-market.html
14 February 2012, Energy Live News (ELN)
Can frozen air help store energy?
Watch: http://www.energylivenews.com/
Alternative link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8nATQnavrU
08 February 2012, Southern African Association for Alternative Energy
New wind power energy storage
A British company has unveiled a solution to storing wind power enrgy, which can then be released during periods of calm.
Highview Power Storage uses liquid air storage which takes electricity at peak times and uses it to cool air until it liquefies at –196 deg C.
Read more: http://saaea.blogspot.com/2012/02/new-wind-power-energy-storage.html
08 February 2012, npower
Is liquid air storage the answer to unreliable wind?
Engineers believe they have found an answer to the unreliability of wind power: liquid air storage. The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Imeche) is unveiling the unique new British technology in London tomorrow.
The Liquid Air Energy Storage (LAES) takes electricity from the grid at peak times, such as on windy days, and uses it to cool air until it liquefies at -196 degrees Celsius.
08 February 2012, Recharge
UK tests grid-linked ‘liquid air’ system for energy storage
UK start-up company Highview Power Storage (HPS) has completed a year-long trial of a grid-connected “liquid air” energy storage (LAES) system.
The company believes the system has the potential to solve the problem of storing surplus power generated by future large-scale renewable energy sources.
Read more: http://www.rechargenews.com/business_area/innovation/article302208.ece
07 February 2012, Green Post
英Highview Power Storage社の新”蓄電”システム。余剰、再生可能エネルギーで液体空気を製造
英Highview Power Storage社が、Rushlight Energy Environmental Awardという初めて聞く技術に関する賞を受賞したというニュースを見て、同社のユニークな蓄電方法を知ることになりました。
Read more: http://greenpost.way-nifty.com/softenergy/2012/02/highview-power-.html
07 February 2012, Alternative Energy Africa
New Solution for Wind Energy Storage
UK company Highview Power Storage has released a new option to store wind energy during peak periods for consumption, helping to solve a major issue facing wind farms. With the new technology, wind farms will not be forced to turn off the turbines during peak wind hours in order to avoid overloading the power grid.
Read more: http://ae-africa.com/read_article.php?NID=3634
07 February 2012, Renewable Energy Focus
UK energy storage company picks up awards
UK energy storage technology company, Highview Power Storage, has won the Rushlight Award for Power Generation and Transmission, and the Group Energy Environmental Award.
Read more: http://www.renewableenergyfocus.com/view/23709/uk-energy-storage-company-picks-up-awards/
06 February 2012, H&V News
Wind power energy storage technology revealed
A British company has unveiled a solution to storing wind power enrgy, which can then be released during periods of calm.
Highview Power Storage uses liquid air storage which takes electricity at peak times and uses it to cool air until it liquefies at –196 deg C.
Read more: http://www.hvnplus.co.uk/news/wind-power-energy-storage-technology-revealed/8626077.article
06 February 2012, Plant Engineer
Combined heat and power, and energy storage plants are the biggest games in town. Brian Tinham looks at latest developments
Few would disagree with the imperative today for engineers to work towards reducing our dependence on fossil fuels and bearing down on carbon emissions. One of the most obvious ways to achieve both, where power generation is concerned, is to favour any of the range of combined heat and power (CHP) technologies, subject to scale, where at all feasible.
Read more: http://www.plantengineer.org.uk/article/39807/Power-play-.aspx
Downloadable PDF: http://fplreflib.findlay.co.uk/articles/39807/Power_play.pdf
Magazine frontcover: http://www.highview-power.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Front-cover.jpg
04 February 2012, Grough
British company’s energy storage system could boost windfarms’ potential
A British company has unveiled what it claims is the solution to one of windpower’s major drawbacks: storage of surplus energy which can then be released during periods of calm.
Highview Power Storage uses liquid air storage which takes electricity at peak times and uses it to cool air until it liquefies at –196C.
03 February 2012, Plant Engineer
Patent granted for award-winning cold energy storage
UK energy saving technology firm Highview Power Storage has been granted a patent for its new CryoEnergy System (CES) in both China and South Africa.
The company has built a pilot plant that demonstrates the practicality of its novel energy collecting system, which uses liquid air as the storage medium.
03 February 2012, BBC Radio 4: Today Programme
Listen to Highview CEO, Gareth Brett discussing out technology.
From: 2hr 46mins 50secs
Listen: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01bbb62/Today_03_02_2012/
Alternative link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la-yEJoeJuM&feature=youtu.be
02 February 2012, BBC South East Today
Watch Highview demonstrate our pilot plant on the BBC.
From: 17mins 50secs
Watch: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01bf8m3/South_East_Today_02_02_2012/
Alternative link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mpu2GErtILI&feature=youtu.be
02 February 2012, The Independent
Wind farm energy storage solution
A British company, Highview Power Storage, is developing a commercial facility that can store energy created by wind farms, potentially unlocking the conundrum of how to smooth out the peaks and troughs of generation as the wind picks up and dies down.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/i/matrix/the-business-matrix-thursday-02-february-2012-6298249.html
02 February 2012, Carbon Commentary
A new way to store energy – liquid air
A venture capitalist idly glancing through business plans probably wouldn’t give an energy storage business a second glance. All the glamorous companies are focused on finding cheap ways of making low cost energy. Storage is down-market, and ever so slightly dull.
Read more: http://www.carboncommentary.com/2012/02/02/2260
02 February 2012, E2B Pulse
Could liquid air be the solution to storing surplus wind energy?
A UK energy storage company is claiming to have developed a solution to one of the major problems facing wind power – how to store surplus energy when the wind is blowing and release it during calm weather.
Read more: http://www.e2bpulse.com/Articles/298685/E2B/Pulse/News/home_headlines/Could_liquid_air.aspx
02 February 2012, DPA
Liquid air: the solution to wind power’s unreliability?
A solution to the most pressing problem facing large-scale wind power – how to store surplus energy when the wind is blowing and release it when the weather is calm – will be presented to the public for the first time at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London on Thursday evening (February 2). Liquid Air Energy Storage (LAES) takes electricity from the grid at peak times, such as on windy days, and uses it to cool air until it liquefies at minus 196 degrees Celsius.
Read more: http://www.dpaonthenet.net/article/47870/Liquid-air–the-solution-to-wind-power-s-unreliability-.aspx
01 February 2012, The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Liquid air energy plant planned by Highview Power Storage
Highview Power Storage says it will develop a commercial facility using liquid air to store renewable energy after a successful pilot project.
UK company Highview recently completed tests at a 350 kilowatt pilot plant near London and connected it to the National Grid, and says it is confident its technology works and is planning a larger scale plant.
Read more: http://eandt.theiet.org/news/2012/feb/liquid-air.cfm
01 February 2012, Eureka
Liquid air the solution to wind power’s unreliability?
A solution to the most pressing problem facing large scale wind power – how to store surplus energy when the wind is blowing and release it when the weather is calm – is being presented to the public tomorrow for the first time.
01 February 2012, Reuters
UK firm plans to firm up liquid air energy storage
UK company Highview Power Storage plans to develop a commercial facility which uses liquid air to store renewable energy after a pilot project was successful, the firm told Reuters on Wednesday.
Read more: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/02/01/uk-liquid-air-idUKL5E8D14AR20120201
01 February 2012, Press Association
Experts hail ‘liquid air’ storage
Technology which turns air into liquid to store energy is a “promising” solution to the problem of intermittent wind power, it has been claimed.
01 February 2012, Energy Live News
Is liquid air storage the answer to unreliable wind?
Engineers believe they have found an answer to the unreliability of wind power: liquid air storage. The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Imeche) is unveiling the unique new British technology in London tomorrow.
Read more: http://www.energylivenews.com/2012/02/01/is-liquid-air-storage-the-answer-to-unreliable-wind/
01 February 2012, Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Liquid air: the solution to wind power’s unreliability?
A solution to the most pressing problem facing large-scale wind power – how to store surplus energy when the wind is blowing and release it when the weather is calm – will be presented to the public for the first time at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London tomorrow (Thursday 2 February).
26 January 2012, Engineering Live
Novel energy storage system
UK energy storage technology development company Highview Power Storage has been granted a patent for its CryoEnergy System (CES) in both China and South Africa
Highview Power Storage has developed and built a pilot plant of a novel energy storage system, which uses liquid air as the storage medium. Although using mature components the integration is novel; and the first of the company’s portfolio of patents has now been granted in two of its target markets.
Read more: http://www.engineerlive.com/Power-Engineer/Heat_Recovery/Novel_energy_storage_system/23973/
