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Safe, Reliable, and clean Long Duration Energy Storage for Ontario

The Goderich Energy Storage Centre, located in Ontario, Canada is the world’s first commercially contracted Advanced Compressed Air Energy Storage facility and is a significant achievement, conforming to all interconnection, uptime, performance and dispatch requirements.

About the project

The Goderich Energy Storage Centre proved that Hydrostor’s technology is capable of fully participating in electricity markets while delivering a range of valuable grid services.

The facility is contracted by Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) for peaking capacity, ancillary services, and full participation in the merchant energy market to support grid reliability standards as set out by the local Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO).

Project highlights

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Size
1.75 MW (discharge), 2.2 MW (charge) / more than 10 MWh (contracted to 7 MWh)
Owner
Hydrostor
Location
Goderich, Ontario, Canada
Application
Commercial reference facility, Peaking capacity
In Service
2019

Benefits

Community
Electricity grid
Environment
Validated performance characteristics

Contributing to deeper understanding of commercial A-CAES facilities at utility scale, corroborating performance and operational metrics, and supporting research in partnership with regional academic institutions.

Electricity grid

The facility stores and generates electricity through emissions free operation, enabling the province to utilize surplus baseload electricity as a fuel source to provide cost-effective and valuable generating capacity for Ontario.

Economic

Supporting economic diversification in cleantech alongside significant construction expenditures and related jobs within the community.

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Validate performance characteristics

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Electricity grid reliability

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Economic diversification

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