20 MW Thermal Energy Storage Trials Hydroxide Molten Salt at the offshore energy island Bornholm
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Denmark’s ‘energy island’ of Bornholm is to host what is being claimed as “game changing” molten salts-based storage technology that its developer aims to deploy as a future large-scale source of renewable heat and power.
Hyme Energy will deploy its system using molten hydroxide salts at an operating combined heat and power (CHP) plant in Rønne as part of an EU-backed project to demonstrate a clutch of pioneering storage technologies.
Hyme says it is the first to be able to use molten hydroxide salts as a medium for long-duration energy storage (LDES), thanks to technology transferred from its sister company in the nuclear sector that allows their highly corrosive nature to be controlled during high-temperature storage applications.
A cheaper molten salt…