Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) and Magnum Development have announced plans for the ’world’s largest renewable energy storage project’, to be located in Utah, US.
The Advanced Clean Energy Storage (ACES) initiative will develop 1,000 megawatts of completely clean energy storage for technologies and strategies in the quest to decarbonise the power grid of the Western US.
The consortium plans to hold hydrogen or compressed air in a huge salt cavern in central Utah, which reportedly is roughly one mile deep and three miles across.
Japan-based MHPS has developed gas turbine technology that enables a mixture of renewable hydrogen and natural gas to produce power with lower carbon emissions.
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