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Highview 押注液空赢在长时储能；全球首座300MWh电站开工
Highview Power 于2025年11月在卡林顿动工建设全球首座商用液空储能电站——300MWh——此前在2024年完成3亿英镑融资。
Highview Power
做的是什么生意
Highview Power builds liquid air energy storage (LAES) plants: surplus electricity compresses and cools air into cryogenic liquid, which later expands through a turbine to generate power for hours, providing long-duration storage and grid stability services.
启动资金：£300M raised in June 2024 from the UK Infrastructure Bank, Centrica and a syndicate of financial investors; total investment reached £377M including £70M from Centrica, plus over £2M of UKRI/Innovate UK grants since a 2012 proof-of-market study.
起因
Highview Power spent years developing liquid air energy storage with UK public support, starting with a proof-of-market study funded by Innovate UK in 2012 and more than £2M of UKRI investments since. The idea: use surplus wind and solar electricity to compress and cool air into a pale blue cryogenic liquid, store it in low-pressure tanks, then apply ambient or waste heat so the expanding gas drives a turbine and generates electricity for hours, with a system life of 40–50 years and no degradation.
经过
On 13 June 2024 Highview announced a £300M investment from the UK Infrastructure Bank, Centrica and a syndicate to build its first commercial-scale plant, taking total investment to £377M including £70M from Centrica. Construction began at Carlton Power's Trafford Low Carbon Energy Park in Carrington, near Manchester: 300MWh of storage at 50MW output for six hours, enough to supply around 480,000 homes, co-located with planned green hydrogen and battery schemes. On 21 November 2025 the official groundbreaking was marked by Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham, positioning the plant as the first development on the park and the world's largest commercial-scale LAES facility.
结果
Still under construction: Carrington is expected to enter operation in 2026, and Highview is planning a 2.5GWh plant at Hunterston, Scotland — an eight-fold increase on Carrington, powering 650,000 homes for 12.5 hours — plus projects in Australia and Japan.
背景
Highview Power 押注高比例可再生能源电网将需要长时储能，而液空——将空气压缩冷却成低温液体，数小时后通过涡轮膨胀发电——在时长和寿命上优于锂电池。从2012年创新英国资助的市场验证研究开始，加上此后UKRI超过200万英镑的投资，公司花了十多年从试点走向首座商用电站。
2024年6月13日，Highview 宣布从英国基础设施银行、Centrica和金融投资者财团获得3亿英镑投资，用于在曼彻斯特附近卡林顿的Carlton Power特拉福德低碳能源园建设电站。该300MWh设施将提供50MW持续六小时——足够约48万户家庭——其第一阶段可作为稳定岛销售电网稳定服务，同时完成整个储能建设。
正式奠基于2025年11月21日举行，大曼彻斯特市长Andy Burnham出席，使其成为园区首个能源项目，并定位为全球最大商用液空储能设施。总投资达3.77亿英镑，包括Centrica的7000万英镑。下一步计划是苏格兰亨特斯顿的2.5GWh电站，容量增加八倍，可为65万户家庭供电12.5小时，另有澳大利亚和日本项目。
这件事要成立，得有什么
- 液空由普遍廉价材料制成，40-50年间衰减极少，直击锂电池在多小时时长上的弱点。
- 将电站先建成稳定岛，让首创项目在储能收入出现前就能从电网服务中获利。
- 英国基础设施银行、Centrica和私人金融投资者的组合分担了首次商用电站的风险，各相关方都有理由推动其成功。
- 在低碳能源园与氢能和电池项目共址，让Highview能够利用共享的电网和规划基础设施。
可借鉴之处
首创能源项目最难的问题是第一个由谁买单：国家基础设施银行加公用事业公司加项目融资，将十年的试点变成了商用电站。
后续进展
截至2026年9月2日，Highview Power 正在建设300MWh卡林顿电站，预计2026年投运，Spencer Group负责价值2300万英镑的土建合同。苏格兰亨特斯顿的两阶段项目是下一步，之后是澳大利亚和日本项目；亨特斯顿第一阶段是电网连接和稳定工程，整个LAES建设在规划批准后。公开来源未披露收入，因此卡林顿电站的商业表现目前尚无法知晓。
资料来源
- Construction start for first energy project at Carlton Power's Trafford Low Carbon Energy Park in Greater Manchester
- Energy storage innovation powers Highview scale-up
- UK's first large-scale liquid air energy storage plant underway
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