Highview Power raises £300m to develop Manchester long duration energy storage facility

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Artist impression of the LAES storage facility | Credit: Highview Power
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Artist impression of the LAES storage facility | Credit: Highview Power

Firm secures funding from UK Infrastructure Bank, Centrica and other investors to develop 'UK's first' commercial scale liquid air energy storage facility

Energy storage specialist Highview Power has secured £300m to fund the construction of the UK's first commercial-scale liquid air energy storage (LAES) plant in Manchester, it announced today. The funding...

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