00:06China has connected its first 100-megawatt class compressed CO2 energy storage facility
00:12in northwestern China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region to the grid.
00:16The facility acts like a massive battery with five gas holders, 141 liquid storage units,
00:23and 97 thermal storage units working together to compress carbon dioxide gas
00:29into a liquid during low electricity demand and then expanding it back into a gas
00:34to drive a turbine when demand peaks.
00:37The plant is unlike typical pumped hydro or compressed air energy storage systems
00:42because its closed-loop technology doesn't rely on a change in elevation.
00:50Compressed carbon dioxide has a higher energy density and offers numerous advantages,
00:55including high efficiency, low cost, high safety, and zero pollution.
01:00The project's designed efficiency makes it the most efficient carbon dioxide power generation unit in China today.
01:08The project leader says after it's finished, the plant is expected to generate about
01:12200 million kilowatt hours of electricity annually, which will reduce CO2 emissions by 170,000 tons.
01:20Sociedad of Water CO2 emissions by 8600,000 tons.
01:21to the plants in a carbon dioxide, which will increase the amount of energy supply juice
01:21and a high quality of energy energy, which will increase the maximum energy,
01:21It will be used to be used to be used by thetal and the plants say
01:22The plant is used to be used by the plant-opi-type source field to reduce the power
