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Siemens Gamesa Starts Building Hot Rock Plant for Long Duration Grid Storage

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This wind turbine manufacturer began building a 30 megawatt-hour precursor for a gigawatt-scale thermal energystoragesystem. It will use industry-standard heaters and the heat will be used to drive a 1.5 megawatt steam turbine feeding electricity back to ther grid. 
 

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Heating rocks to 600 degrees with electricity excess and then creating a steam to drive a generator and feed electricity back to the grid when it-s needed.  Great application of thermal usage. 

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It will be a great application of thermal usage. If they ever succeed in this

 

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