Utilities News

The 2025 report highlighted the urgent need to quickly deploy more energy storage infrastructure across the EU. The main energy storage method in the EU is by far ‘pumped storage hydropower’, which works by pumping water into reservoirs when there is an electricity surplus in the grid – for example on a sunny or windy […]

Existing compressed air energy storage systems often use the released air as part of a natural gas power cycle to produce electricity. In thermal energy storage systems intended for electricity, the heat is used to boil water. The AES Lawai Solar Project in Kauai, Hawaii has a 100 megawatt-hour battery energy storage system paired with […]