A review on the development of compressed air energy storage in China: Technical and economic challenges to commercialization

To reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the environmental impact of fossil fuels, China has become the world's largest country in electricity production from renewable energy. The intermittent nature of renewable energy poses challenges to the stability of the existing power grid. Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) that stores energy in the form of high-pressure air has the potential to deal with the unstable supply of renewable energy at large...