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PostJune 3, 2019

Doubts surround a plan to build the world’s largest energy storage project

The Advanced Energy Storage project is a one-gigawatt energy storage project proposed by Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems of Tokyo, who has developed a gas turbine technology that generates electricity from a mixture of natural gas and hydrogen, and Magnum Development, who operates salt mines in western U.S. which store natural-gas liquids. In this article James Temple, MIT Technology Review's senior editor for energy, explores the conversations around the possibility to use these caverns to store energy in the form of compressed air.

Read the full article at: https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613612/a-huge-energy-storage-deal-ra…

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by MIT Technology Review
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