Energy Dome , an Italian company that develops solutions for the accumulation of energy on an industrial scale, announced that it has launched its first storage plant equipped with CO2 batteries . According to the company, this is a solution that allows energy to be conserved at a lower cost of about half the price. compared to that of systems that using the & quot; municipalities & quot; lithium-ion batteries.
These accumulators are basically the evolution of Liquid Air Energy Storage (LAES) systems. In the technology developed by Energy Dome, the gas is brought to a liquid state and then stored inside specially created tanks. When there is need for electricity, the gas from the liquid state is returned to the gaseous state. During this process, the gas activates a turbine which is used to produce energy.
L & # 39; plant & egrave; was launched two years after the first concept. The initial phase of operations confirmed the performance of the CO2 battery and the capacity; to store energy in the long term, without compromising in terms of efficiency, performance and degradation.
This first plant that & egrave; served to the company to show the goodness of its technology, offers 2.5 MW of power and 4 MWh of capacity. Energy Dome says its batteries can be installed quickly anywhere in the world, for less than half the size. of the cost of similarly sized structures based on lithium-ion batteries, and use readily available materials.
After proving validity; of its solutions, the company & agrave; is preparing for its first large plant , from 20 MW-200 MWh. Furthermore, it & egrave; already secured a series of commercial agreements such as the one with A2A . In the first part of the year, Energy Dome also signed a non-exclusive license agreement with Ansaldo Energia .
To support its growth plans and the development of its technology , Energy Dome will soon give & agrave; the start of a new round of financing. Claudio Spadacini , founder and CEO of Energy Dome, commented:
I am proud of our team and our achievements. Now we can provide an answer to the most important question; urgent of our time: climate change. Our revolutionary technology, the CO2 battery, is; now commercially available to make renewable energy affordable globally.
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