Mission

To enable demand-side energy management and renewables integration via a novel green energy storage technology

Energy Compression Inc. is a clean-tech startup company in the greater Boston area, which is bringing a new kind of energy storage to the marketplace. We call it Adsorption-Enhanced Compressed Air Energy Storage (or AE-CAES for short). AE-CAES is not only very different from electrochemical batteries and capacitors, but is also quite distinct from conventional implementations of compressed air energy storage (CAES).

The most important differences between conventional CAES and AE-CAES are:

• Whereas existing CAES plants store their air in underground caverns, aquifers or salt domes, AE-CAES plants can be located anywhere
• Although conventional CAES could also be located anywhere by using high-pressure storage tanks, AE-CAES uses much lower pressures and hence less costly tanks
• Whereas existing CAES plants burn fossil fuels (to recover the stored energy cheaply, efficiently and at a high power level), AE-CAES can be fully carbon neutral
• Although several carbon-neutral (“isothermal”) implementations of CAES are under development, the low and constant pressures used by AE-CAES allow off-the-shelf compressors and expanders to be used
• The proprietary air and energy storage system used in AE-CAES is intrinsically fail-safe, and would not explode even if shot full of holes with a machine gun
• Together with the fact that all the materials utilized are environmentally benign, this makes AE-CAES ideal for distributed energy storage on the customer’s side of the electricity meter