This review focuses on compressed air energy storage (CAES) in porous media, particularly aquifers, evaluating its benefits, challenges, and technological advancements.
What is compressed air energy storage in porous media?
This review focuses on compressed air energy storage (CAES) in porous media, particularly aquifers, evaluating its benefits, challenges, and technological advancements. Porous media-based CAES (PM-CAES) offers advantages, including lower costs and broader geographical availability compared to traditional methods.
Can compressed air energy storage manage intermittency in porous media?
The global transition to renewable energy sources such as wind and solar has created a critical need for effective energy storage solutions to manage their intermittency. This review focuses on compressed air energy storage (CAES) in porous media, particularly aquifers, evaluating its benefits, challenges, and technological advancements.
Oldenburg and Pan laid the theoretical groundwork for PM-CAES, focusing on the coupled wellbore–reservoir system and highlighting the unique challenges posed by using porous media for energy storage.
Can porous media be used for GWh pm-CAES applications?
Storage sites in porous media can be used for GWh PM-CAES applications in future energy supply systems with a renewable energy share of up to 100 %. The intricate nature of PM-CAES requires specifically designed power plants that account for both the energy system characteristics as well as the geostorage's geological setting.
What is porous media CAES (pm-CAES)?
Porous media CAES (PM-CAES) has been identified as offering significant advantages in terms of total energy (exergy) capacity per site, cost per unit of power (1050 $/kW–2544 $/kW) and per unit of storage capacity (94 $/kWh–229 $/kWh) .
Can pm-CAES operate in a porous medium energy system dominated by res?
The present study represents the first attempt to assess PM-CAES operation in an energy system dominated by RES for a set of future energy system pathways. Fig. 1. (a) Schematic of the coupled simulator for a porous medium CAES (after ).