Renewable Power Could Be Stored as Liquid Air, U.K. Lobby Says
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Turning air into liquid using surplus energy from wind and solar could be a way to store power from intermittent sources and open up an industry worth 1 billion pounds ($1.6 billion) a year to the U.K., a report showed.
The technology would address the “fundamental problem” of how to store energy from renewable sources when it’s not needed and may create as many as 22,000 jobs by 2050, lobby group Centre for Low Carbon Futures said today in the report.