On August 18, the main construction of the "Salt Cave Compressed Air Energy Storage National Test and Demonstration Project" begin in Xuebu town, marking the project’s entrance into the critical period of construction. The Jintan salt cave CAES project is a first-phase project with planned installed power generation capacity of 60MW and energy storage capacity of 300MWh.
The non-afterburning compressed air energy storage power generation technology possesses advantages such as large capacity, long life cycle, low cost, and fast response speed. The project makes full use of underground salt cavity resources with compressed air as the main medium. This new type of energy storage technology helps save land resources, is environmentally friendly, and provides efficient peak shaving, among other advantages. The completed project will help to solve the problem of wind and solar curtailment, alleviate the current challenge of energy shortage in Jiangsu province, and promote the commercial development process of advanced technologies and equipment in the domestic energy storage industry.