How Electricity Storage is Creating a Lower Carbon Future with Charlie Blair Managing Director @ Gravitricity
Episode description
Today's guest is Charlie Blair, Managing Director @ Gravitricity
Charlie Blair has been an Innovator in Energy Systems for 15+ years. He always works with technologies that are on their way to major market growth and disruption in the power and heat sectors. He now acts as Managing Director of Gravitricity Ltd, pioneer of underground grid-scale electricity storage.
At Gravitricity they are developing a novel storage technology that offers some of the best characteristics of lithium batteries and pumped storage. Grid-Scale electricity storage spend is projected to grow from around $3 billion per year today to over $50 billion per year by 2040.
The Gravitricity technology operates in the 1MW to 20 MW power range and enables existing grid infrastructure to go further in a renewable energy world and are currently building/built a 250Kw, 50 tonnes, Concept Demonstrator in Leith, Edinburgh.
In today’s episode we cover:
- If this works in one place it works everywhere
- Energy Storage in 10 years
- Storage and moving electricity and fuel
- Transition is on
Enjoy the show!
Episode recorded 9th April, 2021