Rendering of Hydrostor’s Silver City project, which the company said will create a “renewable mini-grid” for Broken Hill, Australia. Image: Hydrostor.
An advanced compressed air energy storage has been selected as the preferred option for creating backup energy supply to Broken Hill, a city in rural New South Wales, Australia.
Transmission network operator Transgrid evaluated various energy storage project proposals for Broken Hill which would provide the highest net benefit to the local area and increase the ability to integrate renewable energy into its networks.
Hydrostor, a Canadian company with a proprietary advanced compressed air energy storage (A-CAES) technology, said yesterday that its proposed 200MW/1,500MWh Silver City Energy Storage Center project was identified by Transgrid in a new Project Assessment Conclusions Report as the best-placed.
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