The world is undergoing a rapid energy transformation dominated by growing capacities of renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar power. The intrinsic variable nature of such renewable energy sources calls for affordable energy storage solutions. This paper proposes using lifts and empty apartments in tall buildings to store energy.
Depending on the extent to which it is deployed, electricity storage could help the utility grid operate more efficiently, reduce the likelihood of brownouts during peak demand, and allow for more renewable resources to be built and used. Energy can be stored in a variety of ways, including: Pumped hydroelectric.
But this requires two big reservoirs of water at different elevations with a large-enough separation. Already competitive with lithium-ion batteries, the storage tech has the added benefit of long-term energy storage in urban centers, where most electricity is consumed.
The idea is to lift heavy loads up using elevators to store renewable electricity as potential energy, and then lower them to discharge that energy into the grid when needed.
Conclusion This paper concludes that Lift Energy Storage Technology could be a viable alternative to long-term energy storage in high-rise buildings. LEST could be designed to store energy for long-term time scales (a week) to generate a small but constant amount of energy for a long time.
The higher the height difference between the lower and upper storage sites, the lower the project's cost. LEST systems are particularly interesting in buildings with rope-free elevators, and they can also provide tuned mass damper services on the top of very high buildings.
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