Carrington liquid air energy storage plant

Carrington is Highview's liquid air energy storage plant at Trafford Low Carbon Energy Park near Manchester, designed to provide both energy shifting and grid stability services from a single, zero-carbon source. The plant will deliver 300 MWh of storage and an output of 50 MW for six hours, connecting to existing substation and transmission infrastructure. It includes a stability island, the Phase 1 grid stabilisation component, which will supply synchronous inertia, dynamic voltage support, short-circuit strength and fast frequency response. The LAES system captures excess renewable energy when demand is low, stores it as liquid air, and expands the air to generate electricity when needed. Highview states that LAES can operate without degradation for 40 to 50 years and is fully locatable and modular.