On April 1, 2022, the Long Duration Energy Storage Council (LDES Council) announced eleven new members. Breeze joined as one of five technology members, alongside Brenmiller Energy, EnergyNest, Invinity Energy Systems and SaltX Technology. Six anchor members joined at the same time, among them Shell, Reliance and Compass Datacenters, which brought the council to 47 member companies. The council is a CEO-led group, launched at COP26 in November 2021, that works to replace the fossil fuels used to meet peak demand with zero-carbon long duration energy storage.
The release ends with a short profile of each new member. Breeze’s profile says the company “reuses the existing infrastructure of oil and gas pipelines to store energy for months at a time.” It adds that Breeze’s products can reuse power plants without producing greenhouse gases or using water, which keeps capital and operating costs low and lets Breeze start right away.
What Breeze brings to long duration storage
Breeze stores energy as compressed air in pipelines. Compressors push outside air into an existing or new pipeline, and the air stays there until it is needed. At the point of use it is released through a turbine that turns a generator, and the cold exhaust air is used for cooling.
The pipeline is both the store and the delivery route. Read how compressed air in pipelines becomes electricity and cooling, or see how the same approach turns idle oil and gas lines into pipeline energy storage.