https://newatlas.com/energy/waterless-hydro-energy-storage-devon/

Advanced 'high-density waterless hydro' energy plant gets green lightThis remarkable project promises to open up zero-carbon energy storage to a broad range of areas without huge hills, delivering 2.5 times the power of water-based hydro. A pilot plant has been greenlit, with full-size, grid-scale projects to follow.newatlas.com



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์ด ๋†€๋ผ์šด ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์–ธ๋•์ด ์—†๋Š” ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•œ ์ง€์—ญ์— ํƒ„์†Œ ์ œ๋กœ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์ €์žฅ์†Œ๋ฅผ ์„ค์น˜ํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ธฐ์กด ์ˆ˜๋ ฅ์˜ 2.5๋ฐฐ์— ๋‹ฌํ•˜๋Š” ์ „๋ ฅ์„ ๊ณต๊ธ‰ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์„ ์—ด์–ด์ค„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŒŒ์ผ๋Ÿฟ ํ”Œ๋žœํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์Šน์ธ๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ณธ๊ฒฉ์ ์ธ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๋“œ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์ด์–ด์งˆ ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


์˜๊ตญ ๋ฐ๋ณธ์ฃผ ํ”Œ๋ฆฌ๋จธ์Šค ์™ธ๊ณฝ ์ฝ˜์šฐ๋“œ์— ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ด‘์‚ฐ์—…์ฒด ์‹œ๋ฒจ์ฝ”์˜ ์‹œ์„ค์—์„œ ๊ณง RheEnergise์˜ HD Hydro 500kW ๋ฐ๋ชจ ํ”Œ๋žœํŠธ๊ฐ€ ๊ฑด์„ค์— ์ฐฉ์ˆ˜ํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


์ˆ˜๋ ฅ ๋ฐœ์ „ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์€ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ์นœํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์ „๋ ฅ ์ƒ์‚ฐ ์ˆ˜๋‹จ์œผ๋กœ, 4,300ํ…Œ๋ผ์™€ํŠธ์‹œ(TWh)์˜ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Ÿ‰, ์ฆ‰ ์ „์ฒด ์ „๋ ฅ์˜ 15%๋ฅผ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ตœ๊ทผ ๋ช‡ ๋…„ ๋™์•ˆ ์ˆ˜๋ ฅ ๋ฐœ์ „์ด ํ™•๋Œ€๋˜์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ž ์žฌ์  ๋ถ€์ง€๋Š” ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ํฌํ™” ์ƒํƒœ์— ์ด๋ฅด๋Ÿฌ ๋” ์ด์ƒ ํ™•์žฅํ•  ์—ฌ์ง€๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


๊ทธ ์ด์œ ๋Š” ์ „ํ†ต์ ์ธ ์ˆ˜๋ ฅ ๋ฐœ์ „์€ ํšจ์œจ์ ์ธ ์ „๋ ฅ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ๋†’์€ ์ˆ˜์œ„๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ์‹ ๋ขฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ๋ฌผ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.



https://youtu.be/uGYi28zhnpM



์ €์ˆ˜์ง€์— ๋ฌผ์„ ํŽŒํ•‘ํ•˜์—ฌ ํƒœ์–‘์—ด์ด๋‚˜ ํ’๋ ฅ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€๋ฅผ ์ €์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ๋„ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ œํ•œ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ์„ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ๋†’์ด, ๋งŽ์ด ํŽŒํ•‘ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ์— ํŠนํžˆ ๊ทธ๋ ‡์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


์˜๊ตญ์˜ RheEnergise๋Š” ๋ฌผ๋ณด๋‹ค 2.5๋ฐฐ ๋” ๋ฐ€๋„๊ฐ€ ๋†’์€ ์•ก์ฒด๋กœ ๋ฌผ์„ ๋Œ€์ฒดํ•˜์—ฌ ์ด ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•ด๋‹น ๋ฐฉ์•ˆ์€ ๋ฌผ์„ ๊ณ ๋ฐ€๋„์˜ ํŽ˜์ด์ŠคํŠธ ๊ฐ™์€ ์•ก์ฒด๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” R19๋ผ๋Š” ๋ฏธ๋„ค๋ž„ ํŒŒ์šฐ๋”์™€ ํ˜ผํ•ฉํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


์ด ๋ฌด๊ฑฐ์šด ์œ ์ฒด๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋ฉด 40%์˜ ๋ถ€ํ”ผ, ํ›จ์”ฌ ์ž‘์€ ํƒฑํฌ, 40%์˜ ๊ณ ์ €์ฐจ๋กœ ๊ธฐ์กด ์ˆ˜๋ ฅ ๋ฐœ์ „๊ณผ ๋™์ผํ•œ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์ €์žฅ ์„ฑ๋Šฅ์„ ์–ป์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.



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์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์–ธ๋•์ด ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋‚ฎ์€ ์ง€์—ญ์—๋„ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์ €์žฅ ์‹œ์„ค์„ ์„ค์น˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด, ๊ธฐ์กด ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†์—ˆ๋˜ ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์ง€์—ญ์— ์ด ๊นจ๋—ํ•œ ํ˜•ํƒœ์˜ ์ค‘๋ ฅ ๋ฐฐํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ํšŒ์‚ฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ์˜๊ตญ์—๋งŒ 6,500๊ฐœ์˜ ์ž ์žฌ์  ๋ถ€์ง€๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


๋˜ํ•œ ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ๋ฆฌํŠฌ ์ด์˜จ ๋ฐฐํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ์— ๋น„ํ•ด ๋น„์šฉ์ด ์ ๊ฒŒ ๋“ ๋‹ค๊ณ  RheEnergy๋Š” ์ฃผ์žฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒŒ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ข…๋ฅ˜์˜ ๊ธฐ๊ณ„์‹ ์ €์žฅ์†Œ๋Š” ๋ฐฐํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ˆ„์ถœ ๋ฐ ์„ฑ๋Šฅ ์ €ํ•˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์—†๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์ง€์—ญ์  ํ•„์š”์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋ช‡ ์‹œ๊ฐ„, ๋ฉฐ์น , ๋ช‡ ์ฃผ, ๋ช‡ ๋‹ฌ ๋˜๋Š” ๋ช‡ ๋…„ ๋™์•ˆ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€๋ฅผย ์ €์žฅํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ํƒˆํƒ„์†Œํ™” ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์—์„œ ์žฌ์ƒ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๋“œ๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ ์ด ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋Š” ๋งค์šฐ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์†Œ์‹์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ณ„ํš๋Œ€๋กœ ์ง„ํ–‰๋œ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ด ์†Œ๊ทœ๋ชจ ํŒŒ์ผ๋Ÿฟ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋Š” ๊ณง ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ํฐ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ์ƒ์—… ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์งˆ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜ธ์ฃผ์™€ ์น ๋ ˆ์— ์ด๋ฅด๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ด ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์ธ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2๋…„ ์ด๋‚ด์— ์ฒซ 10MW ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๋“œ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๋™ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.