An example of a mining site with large battery storage developed by JUWI on the African continent is the Sukari solar plant in Egypt for Centamin. The plant comprises a 36 MW solar farm and 7.5 MWh battery energy storage system commissioned in late 2022.
The second place that energy storage emerged as a key issue was less expected: in their vision of “smart” and “sustainable” mines, mining companies see advanced energy storage as a key component of the so-called “future of mining” and their vision of the “mine of the future”.
If the goal of for-profit companies is to extract as much profit as possible, then energy storage emerges as a convenient reserve of both economic and moral value that mining companies (and perhaps mining companies alone) are well-positioned to exploit.
Finally, a CAES plant could be established, using the upper mine galleries for underground air storage; the fact that Lieres is a “dry mine” is ideal for this type of system. Thus, the abandoned mine facilities are efficiently used to generate both electrical and thermal renewable energy. Fig. 5.
Energy storage systems are required to increase the share of renewable energy. Closed mines can be used for underground energy storage and geothermal generation. Underground closed mines can be used as lower water reservoir for UPHES. CAES systems store energy in the form of compressed air in an underground reservoir.
The challenge, however, is that the mining industry requires an immense amount of energy storage capacity and for much longer time periods than much of the current battery technology can provide. “We are hoping that as the technology grows, [the storage capacity and duration] will increase.”
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