In the Gobi Desert exterior Golmud in the northwestern province of Qinghai, a row of white tanks stands tall in the open wilderness. Inside, air is compressed and cooled to -194 levels Celsius (-317 Fahrenheit), after which it turns into liquid.
When launched, it expands by greater than 750 occasions, drives generators and generates electrical energy.
This is the world’s largest liquid-air energy storage plant. Also often called the Super Air Power Bank, it is constructed by China Green Development Investment Group and developed with the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (TIPC-CAS).
And it is almost prepared, in response to a Science and Technology Daily report on December 23. The facility can ship up to 600,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electrical energy per discharge cycle. It runs for 10 hours straight.
Each 12 months, it should generate about 180 million kWh, sufficient for 30,000 properties, in response to the report.
Wang Junjie, a researcher with TIPC-CAS, advised the official Beijing Daily in May that the plant would assist even out variations in renewable power.