Ouagadougou energy storage unit water tank

What is the Ouagadougou project?

The primary goal of the project is to raise living standards and improve health by providing access to safe drinking water and sanitation in impoverished areas in and around the capital Ouagadougou. Works to be carried out include:

How does a water storage tank work?

Excess heat from solar heating is used to heat the water during the charging cycle, and the hot water is then pumped through the pipelines. The tubes carry thermal energy from the hot water to the gravel-water combination inside the storage tank.

How does a gravity power module store energy?

It stores energy by using water to lift a piston or any other object with the requisite mass, and then dropping the piston to push the water back through hydroelectric generators when the power is required. This storage concept, i.e., the gravity power module, was proposed by Gravity Power, LLC .

Is liquid water storage suitable for high temperature applications?

While liquid water storage are highly suitable for operating temperature of 20–80 °C, using the steam accumulation form of such medium is easily suitable for high temperature applications such as power generation or other industrial applications.

Are energy storage systems a good choice?

Thus to account for these intermittencies and to ensure a proper balance between energy generation and demand, energy storage systems (ESSs) are regarded as the most realistic and effective choice, which has great potential to optimise energy management and control energy spillage.

What is cryogenic energy storage?

In cryogenic energy storage, the cryogen, which is primarily liquid nitrogen or liquid air, is boiled using heat from the surrounding environment and then used to generate electricity using a cryogenic heat engine.