China Now Saves Electricity for the Future with Huge Golf Balls

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Compressed air storage systems are excellently suited for the long-term storage of large amounts of energy. China has now also recognized this and in two years brought two particularly large systems to the grid.

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The world's largest compressed air energy storage (CAES) system has been put into operation in China's Jiangsu province, storing excess energy in underground salt caverns with a capacity of 2.4 gigawatt hours, BGEN reported. The amazing technical performance could serve as a miracle weapon for volatile electricity production caused by renewables.