Is Sumitomo Heavy Industries Highview Power Energy Storage System On Line At Hiroshima?
From some work I did at ICI in the 1970s on a PACE231R analog computer, I believe that Highview Power may have an extremely promising way of storing energy.
The Highview Power web site talks of Sumitomo Heavy Industries, who are building one of Highview’s batteries at Hiroshima in Japan.
So I asked Google AI the question in the title of this post and received this comprehensive answer.
Yes, the Sumitomo Heavy Industries (SHI) Highview Power liquid air energy storage (LAES) commercial demonstration plant in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima, is operational, having commenced operations on December 1, 2025.
Key details about the plant:Location: Within the Hiroshima Gas Hatsukaichi LNG Terminal.Capacity: 5 MW output with 4-hour storage (4 MW charging).Technology: Uses Highview Power’s CRYOBattery™ technology, specifically utilizing waste cold from the adjacent LNG terminal to improve efficiency.Role: The facility is designed to support grid stability and enhance renewable energy integration.A completion ceremony for the project was held on December 9, 2025. This news item from Sumitomo Heavy Industries gives more details.This paragraph describes Liquid Air Energy Storage or (LAES).
- It looks like the battery has a capacity of 5 MW/20 MWh.
- As it talks about using waste cold, this looks to be a very professionally-designed specialist application.
- But surely, that would be expected from a company like Sumitomo Heavy Industries.
There are hundreds of LNG terminals globally, with significant growth driven by over 300 projects (roughly 177 import/regasification and 124 export/liquefaction) expected between 2025 and 2030. In 2023, there were 22 countries with active liquefaction (export) capacity, while Europe alone operates roughly 28 large-scale terminals, supplemented by a rapidly expanding fleet of FSRUs.Export Capacity: In 2023, global liquefaction capacity was 472 million tonnes per annum (mtpa), with top exporters being Australia, the U.S., and Qatar.Expansion: By 2027, 52 new liquefaction terminals are expected to commence operations.Import Growth: European regasification capacity is expanding, with major terminals in Spain, France, Italy, and new additions in Germany and other nations.U.S. Infrastructure: The U.S. alone has more than 170 LNG facilities performing various services.
- They are listed in this Wikipedia entry.
- There are around thirty in Japan alone.
- Will Centrica add a 5 MW /20 MWh Highview Power battery to their Grain LNG Terminal?
- Each facility installed is claimed to be designed to support grid stability and enhance renewable energy integration, so the last part must cut carbon emissions.
Yes, several major chemical engineering and industrial processes generate significant amounts of “waste cold” (low-grade thermal energy or cryogenic energy) that is often discarded. While the chemical industry conventionally focuses on recovering waste heat, recovering waste cold is becoming increasingly popular for improving energy efficiency, particularly in cryogenic processes.
- Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Regasification
- Cryogenic Air Separation Units (ASUs)
- Dry Ice and CO2 Liquefaction
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Liquid Nitrogen Vaporization
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Emerging: Cryogenic Carbon Capture
- Creation of this page was not difficult, but you have to get the tricks right.
- I used Google Chrome and Google AI.
- My blog is hosted in WordPress.
- All pages on this blog, where I have had help in their creation from Google AI are tagged as such.
I would be happy to help anybody, who wanted to use Artificial Intelligence to create blog pages.
I Have Just Been WordPressed
My method of using WordPress is to use the Classic editor because, that was how I started and many of the original posts were created with it.
I also do some actions with galleries, which now the program seems to have banned.
Rule one of writing software is never to go back on your original design and change things that they habitually do.
Some big software manufacturers do it all the time and I’m sure it does them harm.
As an example, who remembers the company; Wordstar, but loads of people remember and use Control-C, Control-V, Control-X, Control-Z etc.
The solution is to get the design right first time.
WordPress are driving me nuts, by my not being able to edit my post ; The Ultimate Recycled Electric Local Train.
I particularly want to get the gallery in the post into order. If I try to move the last picture into position zero, I can do it and it even stays there when I update the gallery. But if I go back to do another move, the picture is back to the old place.
That looks like a Grade A Bug to me! Fix It!
Where Have The Special Characters Gone In WordPress?
I have just written Ørsted In Talks To Sell Half Of Huge UK Wind Farm To Apollo, where of necessity I have used Ørsted more than a few times.
There used to be an omega character in WordPress, that you used to access the special characters, but it seems to have disappeared.
Does anybody know where it’s gone?
TIA!
Difficulty Looking At Pictures On The Blog
One reader of this blog, has informed me, that he’s started having difficulty looking at the pictures.
I haven’t changed anything in the production of this blog, but I do feel WordPress have done a recent upgrade.
If anybody has any problems, please tell me.
I Apologise For The Quality Of My Latest Posts
Since swapping to a Microsoft Surface Studio Pro 2 and Windows 10, the quality of my posts has got worse.
This is because they seem to be incompatible with WordPress.
It annoys me terribly, as I was brought up in a letterpress print works, where nothing less than perfect pages were tolerated.
I suspect I need to return to Windows 7!
I have improved them by reediting them in Windows 7 on my old laptop.
I certainly couldn’t recommend a Microsoft Surface Pro and Windows 10 to a blogger, who uses WordPress.
Mutual Blogging
A reader of this blog, who used to be an old Artemis professional, is currently working on a large project, where there are a large number of sub-contractors and a difficult public relations problem with those, who live locally to the project.
They asked me, if a blog could solve some of his problems.
So here goes!
I would suggest, he starts a simple blog, probably using WordPress, as it is generally easily managed by an individual with average computer skills.
- Only a tight group of individuals would be allowed to add posts to the blog.
- Posts would be limited to so many a week.
- Anybody would be allowed to comment, but under a set of behavioural rules and moderation, If the project is controversial, you don’t want the blog to become the focus of discontent.
- I believe that with a difficult project, it could be a place for constructive discussion.
- Hopefully, each post would generate comments and discussion, that improved the original post.
- The blog would also point on its home page to useful sites concerned with the subject of the blog.
- There would be a contact form.
If you were having a blog like this for say a public infrastructure project like Crossrail, it could be public, but a project like perhaps trialling a new treatment for a controversial-to-some illness like HIV-Aids, might be password-protected.
I think on balance most project blogs would be public.
If a system like WordPress is used, all of what I said is possible. And a lot more too!
North of me, they are electrifying the Gospel Oak to Barking Line and there has been a bit of controversy over noisy piling in the middle of the night.
A simple post apologising for the noise and giving locations may have eased the problems. You might even get comments to the blog from those overlooking the piling, which show the details of the engineering and the generated noise.
You can never be sure, the way that such a blog will develop.
But I’m sure it will work, to improve the smooth running of a project.
I Can’t Display My Galleries
WordPress have done their usual and updated the software without testing it.
I can’t look at any galleries.
I’m using Windows 7. But it works fine on an old xP machine.
If you can see them properly or can’t please add a comment.
WordPress Is Total Crap At The Moment
My galleries don’t display and it is completely f**cked.
They must put the last version back and stop fiddling.
Apologies to all my readers!
My New Crap Design Tag
The new WordPress screen has resulted in my bringing in a new Crap Design tag. Click the tag on this post to see the design horrors.
Doing this was not as easy as it used to be, due to WordPress’s new editor design!
So is it back to the future with WordPress?
How Do You Get Rid Of The Beep Beep Boop Screen On WordPress?
Every day, I add my current INR reading to a post in the blog. It is just a simple way to show my results to doctors, dentists and anybody else who needs to know. I’ve also got a couple of researchers looking at the figures for interest, as it shows INR might vary from day to day.
It used to be easy and quick. I just got the page up and then clicked the Edit link on the WordPress toolbar and then the edit screen came up immediately. After typing in the new value, I just clicked Update and that was it.
If I wanted to check the page, I clicked on a View Post link and it replaced edit edit screen. Now it creates another tab in my browser.
What took a couple of seconds now takes a lot longer.
I have better things to do than look at the work of an imbecile.
I suspect the guy who designed this crap was the designer of the chocolate tea-pot.
If my blog wasn’t so big, I’d move it elsewhere!
The Anonymous Widower 