Medium Duration Energy Storage 2022

March 16th, 2022

The importance of Medium Duration Energy Storage

As the UK decarbonises its economy, offshore wind turbines and solar PV panels will deliver increasingly larger fractions of the country’s energy demand.

Energy storage will become one of the main mechanisms to maintain a balance between electricity generation and demand in a renewable-dominated electricity grid.

Energy storage will be required over a vast range of discharge times, going from milliseconds up to several months.

This event focuses on the medium duration range (between 4 to 200 hrs), which is best handled by thermo-mechanical solutions.

Following a very successful previous meeting in 2020, this event will provide an updated view on medium duration energy storage and new technologies being developed. The event will bring academics, industrial stakeholders, and policy makers together to discuss:

what is the extent of the role for medium duration energy storage?
what are some of the current blockers?
what new policies are required to support the deployment of medium duration storage technologies.

Medium-duration energy storage 2022 is taking place on 16th March to addess these questions. It is being delivered as a hybrid event with a physical base at the IMechE headquarters (One Birdcage Walk) in London.

Entrance is FREE but there is a limit of 60 people in the room, so book your place now! The meeting will be broadcast online in real time.

Agenda for Medium Duration Energy Storage

9:30 – 10:00	Registration
10:00 - 10:10	Prof. Seamus Garvey, University of Nottingham: “Welcome and opening remarks”
10:10 – 10:40	National Grid, speaker TBD: “The need for medium duration energy storage”
10:40 – 11:10	Energy Dome, Rembrandt Niessen: “A CO2 based thermo-mechanical energy storage solution”
11:10 – 11:40	SSE Renewables, Sean Kelly: “Coire-Glas: A pumped hydro project in Scotland”
11:40 – 12:00	Coffee & Tea Break
12:00 – 12:30	Malta, Michael Geyer: “A novel electro-thermal system for energy storage”
12:30 – 13:00	Cheesecake Energy, Michael Simpson: “A modular, tank-based compressed air energy storage system”
13:00 – 13:45	Lunch
13:45 – 14:15	Siemens Gamesa, Maxwell Cameron-Jones: “ETES: Siemens’ approach to medium duration energy storage”
14:15 – 14:45	Highview Power, Gareth Brett: “An update on Highview Power’s liquid air plants”
14:45 – 15:15	DNV-GL, Tim Hare: “DNV-GL’s perspective on the role of medium duration energy storage technologies”
15:15 – 15:35	Coffee & Tea Break
15:35 – 16:20	Discussion Panel: A thought-provoking panel featuring delegates from BEIS, Ofgem, REA and CREDS
16:20 – 16:30	Closing Words

This event is supported by the Institute for Policy and Engagement at the University of Nottingham, and is co-sponsored by the Renewable Energy Association and the Energy Research Accelerator and the Supergen Energy Storage Network+.