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The project, titled “Experimental investigation of the flow of dense solid-liquid suspensions using echo-PIV and echo-LPT” will seek to answer some of the most complex, fundamental questions about the fluid mechanics behaviour of our High-Density Fluid...
7th July 2022
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A consortium of four British companies have earmarked a series of sites between Dumbarton and Dundee for the locations of Scotland’s next generation of hectare+ scale vertical farms, powered by 100% Scottish renewables. These farms would provide locally produced fresh foods (salads and fruits) to over 60% of the Scottish population...
21st April 2022
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The weird and wonderful rivals to batteries
If new pumped hydro does get built, there are only so many places with sufficiently high mountains [...] that are suitable for new schemes.
That is where a fleet of competing new technologies come in [...]. One is a twist on pumping water up a hill, by adding suspended solids to make a fluid more than twice as dense as water. RheEnergise, the start-up developing the technology, thinks it will unlock about 9500 sites in the UK, as it can be used on even small hills, not just mountains...
20th January 2022
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World Economic Forum : British hills could soon be generating electricity. Here’s how:
Engineers have invented a high-density fluid that generates two and half times more power and energy than water when it is released downhill. This means that 200-metre hills – instead of mountains and dams – could be used to generate hydropower. Thousands of hills in the United Kingdom, Africa and Europe are potentially suitable, the company RheEnergise says. The global energy storage market needs to grow 100 times its current size to accommodate increasing demand.
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16th February 2021
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Hundreds of UK hills could be used for renewable energy storage
The British company RheEnergise has said it has invented a low-cost, energy-efficient and environmentally friendly system for storing energy by adapting one of the oldest forms of storage, hydropower, to store and release electricity from small hills.
It claims this could allow many more sites to be used for storage projects across the UK as the steep dam walls and mountains required for conventional hydropower systems are not needed.
6th February 2021
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Five sustainable innovatoins to watch in 2021
Thousands of hills across the UK could be used to generate renewable energy through a pioneering underground hydropower system.
British company RheEnergise has adapted traditional hydropower energy storage into a high-density system, which can store and release electricity from slopes less steep that those usually required for hydropower dams to work. It uses a fluid with more than two and a half times the density of water to create the same amount of electricity from gentler slopes.
9th November 2021
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The Hustle : The world is facing a big dam problem
For 100+ years, hydroelectric dams have generated power on demand. But with energy needs rising, we’re running out of places to put them.
Enter RheEnergise, a London-based startup…
… that’s turning hills into batteries
Their “High Density Hydro” systems are similar to typical hydroelectric plants — using surplus power to pump liquid uphill to a holding area, then releasing it to create power when needed — but offer several key advantages:
10th February 2021
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This New Energy Storage System Uses Hills As Enormous Batteries
The new technology will work on the same model as hydropower plants while giving a more convenient solution for the energy sector’s rising demands.
RheEnergise is a U.K based startup that came up with this new technology. The novel method will captivate renewable energy utilizing the gravity of hills.
The new method utilizes the same framework as hydropower plants that pump water up on mountains when energy is available at comparatively low rates and release masses of water when it is needed to generate more power through spinning turbines.
Enter RheEnergise, a London-based startup…
… that’s turning hills into batteries
13th May 2021
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The Times : Rise of vertical firms pitched to feed 60% of Scots
Plans have been revealed for giant vertical farms to provide food to almost two thirds of the Scottish population.
The first of four giant complexes, which would be powered by renewable energy, could open in 2025.
21st April 2022
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The Guardian : Powering up: UK hills could be used as energy 'batteries'
Hundreds of hills across the UK could be transformed into renewable energy “batteries” through a pioneering hydropower system embedded underground.
A team of engineers have developed a system that adapts one of the oldest forms of energy storage, hydropower, to store and release electricity from gentle slopes rather than requiring steep dam walls and mountains....
8th February 2021
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The Guardian : Here's how to solve the energy crisis for the long-term- store more power
A new breed of pumped storage could play an even greater role than the giant hydropower plants of the past. Engineers believe they could unlock hundreds of potential sites across the UK, which would be quicker and cheaper to build than traditional hydropower dams. By using a mineral-rich fluid, which has more than two-and-a-half times the density of water, projects could generate the same amount of electricity from slopes which are less than half as high...
10th January 2022
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RheEnergise aims to have first commercial hydro power storage system in 2024
A new long-life source of underground hydro-powered energy storage has been invented by British company RheEnergise which is now embarking on its first successful crowdfunding project to fund the next phase of the project.Courtesy of RheEnergise.
The low-cost, energy efficient and environmentally-benign energy storage solution High-Density Hydro could mean thousands of hillsides across the UK being used to provide energy to the UK’s energy system....
8th February 2021
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Eminox Collaborates with RheEnergise on Energy Storage Project
Eminox today announced a major new partnership with pumped energy storage innovator RheEnergise. Eminox will use its 42+ years of engineering expertise designing and manufacturing complex emissions reduction systems for a variety of engine applications to create and deliver the overall digital control system for RheEnergise's ground-breaking new energy storage solution.
9th February 2021
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Crowdfunding pours into RheEnergise’s high-density hydro
Eminox today announced a major new partnership with pumped energy storage innovator RheEnergise. Eminox will use its 42+ years of engineering expertise designing and manufacturing complex emissions reduction systems for a variety of engine applications to create and deliver the overall digital control system for RheEnergise's ground-breaking new energy storage solution.
11th February 2021
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Cette start-up a conçu une STEP adaptée aux pays sans reliefs
L’immense majorité des stations de transfert d’énergie par pompage-turbinage (STEP) utilise de l’eau pour stocker l’électricité. Une start-up britannique veut la remplacer par un liquide à haute densité, qui permettrait de décupler la puissance tout en réduisant les contraintes techniques et géographiques.
25th February 2021
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RheEnergise Selected To Receive UK Government Funding To Develop Innovative Energy Storage Solution.
RheEnergise, London, will receive £149,537 to develop High-Density Hydro®, a cost optimised energy storage solution to create stable, dispatchable power grids from ultra-low-cost renewable energy...
23rd February 2022
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High-density pumped hydro ‘could be installed on thousands of small hills’
Thousands of hillsides around the UK could host a new type of pumped-hydro energy storage system, its developers have claimed.
Unlike conventional hydro power, the system from RheEnergise uses dense liquid instead of water. The fluid is two-and-a-half-times denser than water, and could therefore potentially provide two-and-a-half-times the power of equivalent conventional systems....
8th February 2021
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SiliconRepublic : 10 start-ups powering the future of energy
UK start-up RheEnergise already has a roadmap for the coming years, with plans to have its first commercial hydropower energy storage system operational by 2024 and more than 100 systems following that in the next decade...
18th February 2021
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‘Denser than water’ mini pumped storage solution successfully crowd-funds test rig
RheEnergise has raised enough investment via Crowdcube – £320k – to finance building a 500kW test rig for its ‘High-Density Hydro’ energy storage solution. The R&D work to date has been part-funded by Innovate UK, an arm of the UK Government (eight grants totalling £550,000 to December 2020 and a further on-going grant of £135,000)..
8th February 2021
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Fast Company :This startup turns hills into giant batteries You don’t need a lot of lithium when you have gravity.
RheEnergise has raised enough investment via Crowdcube – £320k – to finance building a 500kW test rig for its ‘High-Density Hydro’ energy storage solution. The R&D work to date has been part-funded by Innovate UK, an arm of the UK Government (eight grants totalling £550,000 to December 2020 and a further on-going grant of £135,000)..
2nd November 2021
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UK firm promises high density pumped hydro revolution
A UK-led innovation in energy storage could make it easier and cheaper to roll out grid - balancing pumped hydro schemes writes David Fowler
A new system based on pumped hydro generation promises to vastly increase capacity to store and release energy generated from renewables, providing a more environmentally-friendly alternative to batteries.
The breakthrough in the system being developed by start-up RheEnergise is a bespoke fluid with a density 2.5 times that of water. The company says this opens up a huge number of potentially suitable sites.
4th May 2021
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Reino Unido convertirá sus montañas en “baterías” de energía hidroeléctrica
Con este proyecto, Reino Unido podría convertirse en pionero de la generación de energía hidroeléctrica, de la forma más innovadora.
¿Cuál es la manera más sostenible de producir energía eléctrica? Reino Unido ha encontrado una vía que, parece ser, podría cambiar el futuro de la generación de energía renovable, específicamente de la energía hidroeléctrica.
22nd February 2021
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Ecco come colline potranno diventare batterie a gravità
Centinaia di colline in Gran Bretagna potrebbero diventare delle batterie a gravità, rilasciando energia elettrica su richiesta quando necessario...
9th May 2021
