Given the intermittent nature of both wind and solar, finding ways to efficiently store their energy is critical if those renewable sources are to realize their full energy potential for commercial use.
Utilities are anxious to tap technology that will allow renewable energy in storage to be released when the demand and price peak. They now must wait for the wind to blow, losing potential revenue.
General Compression would store energy underground in empty gas wells, saline aquifers or salt formations, and then release it as needed to spin a generator to produce electricity.
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