ARES – Commercial-Scale Rail Energy Storage
ARES are a company that are committed to providing energy storage technology on a wide scale and have just been given approval by the Bureau of Land Management to launch a new project called ARES.
ARES are a company that are committed to providing energy storage technology on a wide scale and have just been given approval by the Bureau of Land Management to launch a new project called ARES. ARES stands for Advanced Rail Energy Storage, and their purpose is to assist the electric grid and compensate in times of need when supplies are running low, and store excess supplies when required.
The way in which ARES approach the issue of balancing energy supplies is different to that of the Elon Musk peddles, pumped hydroelectric facilities or moving compressed air underneath the ground. Their method involves taking over 106 acres of Nevada and running a low-cost power to drive train to generate and store electricity as and when required. It will work when the local utility has excess electricity. When this occurs the electric motor fires up the train, and it steams up the 2,000-foot hill ahead of it. When there is a deficit in electricity, the train bolts back down the hill and generates the electricity needed via braking.
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Although the whole project is based on energy saving, it is still a very expensive task to complete, with the new energy storage system costing a whopping $55 million. As with all new major projects, ARES do have a mountain ahead of them in ensuring they can achieve all they have set out to do, but once they do, there will be no stopping them!
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Yusuf Demir
Yusuf Demir is the Cloud & Software Reporter at TrendinTech, where he covers cloud infrastructure, enterprise platforms, developer tools and the digital transformation of businesses in the UK and the United States. He previously reported on enterprise technology for The Register in London and covered the cloud and SaaS beat for TechCrunch, following the competition between AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, the open source licensing disputes and the rise of Kubernetes. Yusuf holds an MEng in Computing from Imperial College London and speaks regularly at KubeCon and AWS re:Invent, where he moderates conversations with engineers and chief technology officers. He is most interested in the gap between vendor roadmaps and the systems engineers actually run, and in what the cloud bill looks like once the free credits expire.
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