Highview Power to build a 50 MW/250 MWh cryogenic storage plant in North of England

Highview Power plans to build a  50 MW/250 MWh cryogenic storage plant, which will be the first one to be built in North of England, at the site of a decommissioned thermal power station. Highview Power is currently in discussions with potential off-takers to contract for the capabilities and services the facility can provide.

Highview Power’s CRYOBattery™ uses only benign materials with zero emissions and has zero water impact. The new facility in the North of England is the first large scale commercial system utilizing this technology, pioneered at Highview Power’s pilot plant in Slough, and evolved at the demonstration plant in Pilsworth, Greater Manchester, which has been successfully operating since early 2018. 

Highview Power's CRYOBattery™ is currently the only freely locatable energy storage solution on the market that delivers clean, reliable, and cost-efficient long-duration energy storage with grid synchronous inertia. It can store energy for weeks, instead of hours or days, and at approximately GBP110 (US$141.22)/MWh for a 10 hour, 200 MW/2 GWh system, the CRYOBattery™ offers the lowest levelized cost of storage for large-scale applications.