Our institute has built the world’s first 1.5 MW supercritical compressed air energy storage (CAES) system and has passed the major project acceptance of Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission. Thus, the supercritical compressed air energy storage system was verified in the pilot plant tests. Meanwhile, the demonstration project of a 10MW advanced compressed air energy storage unit has been officially initiated.

In 2013, our institute applied for 82 national patents for inventions, 35 patents for utility models, 8 PCT national phase patents, and 1 software copyright and was granted 42 patents for inventions, 42 patents for utility models, 1 design patent and 1 software copyright registration. The institute published 367 papers, of which 77 were indexed by SCI, 128 indexed by EI; 3 monographs were also published/ edited.

In 2013, “Research on Chinese Urban Energy Utilization Methods” completed by our institute won the second prize of the 2012 annual Soft Science Research Achievements by the National Energy Administration (NEA).

1.5 MW advanced air storage system