Highview Power

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Highview Power
Company type Private
Industry Energy storage
Headquarters London, England
Key people
Colin Roy (Chairman) [1]
Richard Butland (CEO)
Website www.highviewpower.com

Highview Power is a long-duration [2] energy storage pioneer, specialising in liquid air energy storage (LAES). LAES stores excess renewable energy by cooling air to a liquid and then converting back to renewable energy when there is demand from the grid.

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It is based in England, with an office in Central London with international offices in North Sydney, Australia, Dubai and Chennai, India. [3]

In June 2024 Highview Power secured the backing of the UK Infrastructure Bank and the energy industry leader Centrica with a £300 million investment for the first commercial-scale liquid air energy storage (LAES) plant in the UK.

The £300 million funding round was led by the UK Infrastructure Bank and the British multinational energy and services company Centrica, alongside a syndicate of investors including Rio Tinto, Goldman Sachs, Kirkbi and Mosaic Capital.

The investment will enable the construction of one of the world’s largest long duration energy storage (LDES) facilities in Carrington, Greater Manchester, using Highview Power’s proprietary LAES technology. Once complete, it will have a storage capacity of 300 MWh and an output power of 50 MW for six hours. Construction will begin on the site immediately, with the facility operational in early 2026, supporting over 700 jobs in construction and the supply chain.

Technology

Its CRYOBattery™ technology [4] uses low-cost electricity to cool air to -196 °C, reducing it to a liquid 1/700th the volume. [5] At times of high demand for electricity, when prices are typically high, the liquid is expanded through a turbine to generate electricity, free of combustion and the resultant emissions. [6] The process can utilise waste heat [7] and waste cold [8] to boost efficiency. The system utilises standard equipment from sectors like Liquified Natural Gas and, unlike short-duration energy storage technologies (like thermochemical batteries), doesn't require mining for, or complex recycling of, rare minerals. [9]

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  1. ↑ Bounds, Andy (4 June 2018). "World's first liquid air energy storage plant opens near Manchester". Financial Times . Retrieved 24 April 2022.
  2. ↑ Stubbe, Richard (4 September 2018). "Highview Power CEO Cavada Ready to Fill Energy Gap". BNEF. Bloomberg . Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  3. ↑ Office Locations Highview Power
  4. ↑ "Highview Power to build Europe's largest energy storage plant". University of Birmingham. Archived from the original on 2022-01-22. Retrieved 2025-11-02.
  5. ↑ "Electrical energy can be captured as liquid air". The Economist. ISSN   0013-0613 . Retrieved 2025-11-02.
  6. ↑ IChemE. "Highview Power to build Europe's largest battery storage system". www.thechemicalengineer.com. Retrieved 2025-11-02.
  7. ↑ She, Xiaohui; Peng, Xiaodong; Nie, Binjian; Leng, Guanghui; Zhang, Xiaosong; Weng, Likui; Tong, Lige; Zheng, Lifang; Wang, Li; Ding, Yulong (2017-11-15). "Enhancement of round trip efficiency of liquid air energy storage through effective utilization of heat of compression" . Applied Energy. 206: 1632–1642. doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.09.102. ISSN   0306-2619.
  8. ↑ She, Xiaohui; Peng, Xiaodong; Zhang, Tongtong; Cong, Lin; Ding, Yulong (2019-02-01). "Preliminary study of Liquid Air Energy Storage integrated with LNG cold recovery". Energy Procedia. Innovative Solutions for Energy Transitions. 158: 4903–4908. doi: 10.1016/j.egypro.2019.01.702 . ISSN   1876-6102.
  9. ↑ "How liquid air could help keep the lights on". BBC News. 2019-10-22. Retrieved 2025-11-02.
  10. ↑ "Ashden Winners". Ashden . Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  11. ↑ "Frost & Sullivan Applauds Highview Power's Technological Expertise..." PR Newswire . Cision . Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  12. ↑ Nathan, Stuart (22 October 2019). "Highview Power to build Europe's largest energy storage plant". The Engineer . Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  13. ↑ "University research to develop technologies which could transform electricity system". University of Birmingham . Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  14. ↑ "World first – storing energy in liquid air". University of Brighton . Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  15. 1 2 3 "Liquid Air Energy Storage at city scale" (PDF). University of Leeds . Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  16. 1 2 "The 2011 Energy & Environment Winner". The Engineer. 12 February 2011. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  17. ↑ Owen-Jones, Jemima (10 January 2019). "Citec to provide engineering for Highview Power..." Gasworld. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  18. ↑ Khan, Sania. "Highview Power signs contract with Tenaska for storage projects in Texas". S&P Global . Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  19. ↑ "£8 million boost for energy storage innovation". gov.uk . HM Government . Retrieved 23 December 2019.
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