Shanghai Electric Group said the Huai’an Salt Cavern Compressed Air Energy Storage project in Jiangsu, China, billed as the world’s largest CAES facility, has entered full operation. The project comprises two 300 MW non-fuel CAES units totaling 600 MW and 2,400 MWh of storage, using underground salt caverns and molten-salt thermal storage to reuse compression heat without burning fossil fuels. Shanghai Electric supplied core equipment including air turbine units, generators, motors and molten-salt storage tanks, and the plant is expected to generate about 792 million kWh annually while cutting coal use and CO2 emissions.
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