RDI Focus Area 2:
Energy Security, Reliability and Resilience Using Long Duration Energy Storage
RDI Focus area 2 centers on the Liquid Air Energy Storage (LAES) solution to enable decarbonized grids with sector integration.
The focus area’s objective is to address the challenges of renewable energy intermittency which is impacting grid stability and security. Developing and optimizing LDES technologies to store energy for extended periods reduces the supply-demand variation in renewable sources like solar and wind. By integrating LDES with LNG, district heating, industrial processes and digitalization, the objective is not only to maximize the usage of renewable energy, enhance energy efficiency, and decarbonize hard-to-abate sectors, but also enable new revenue streams.
Achieving these objectives requires integrating systems and adjusting them to meet each other’s needs to form links in the Net Zero Energy Ecosystem. This work includes:
- Integrating renewables by long duration energy shifting.
- Ensuring resilient grids via grid stability services (inertia, short circuit capacity, reactive power, voltage, frequency control).
- Improving overall process efficiency with integration to process plants (LNG terminals, steam generators, district heating, industrial processes).
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