About this event
A new company called Breeze is being formed around a brilliant new idea to turn dormant pipelines into a transmission network for renewable energy.
There are over 3 million pipelines in the US today, becoming increasingly idle and Breeze wants to turn idle pipelines into Green Energy highways.
Breeze is looking for partners, licensees and pipeline owners who are wondering how to turn defunct pipeline assets into part of the green, zero emissions energy market.
The company is putting together a use case for what it calls a Compressed Air Pipeline Systems (CAPS) and it proposes that any existing gas or oil pipeline can be turned into a transmission system for renewables, but one that has a system of overnight storage built in. This can be used either instead of a traditional cable connections to the grid, or as well as.
Breeze is putting the finishing touches to a detailed plan to use compressed air to store, transport and generate electricity. Breeze will store electricity within pipelines simply by letting air compress further inside the pipeline. The system will need a small heat source to heat the compressed air on exit from the pipeline, to allow it to spin the turbines to generate electricity, and while this tiny portion of the energy used may be supplied by fossil fuels to start with, Breeze is working on the cheapest way to take that out of the equation.
Much of this can happen converting retired coal and gas facilities and using the transmission at those plants to push the generated energy into the grid.
Rethink Energy will interview Breeze at this webinar and answer questions of the price-efficiency of the proposed system.
