With long sandy beaches, glassy lakes, gentle rolling mountains, and carpets of pine, few states in the U.S. host as much moody, natural allure as the state of Maine—and now the Pine Tree State is hoping to notch yet another accolade. While not exactly a natural wonder of sorts, this record-breaking first will nonetheless help preserve what makes Maine—and all of Earth's natural spaces—special.
Soon Maine will be home to the world's largest clean-energy battery. It will be able to store 8,500 megawatt-hours of energy, which can power 85 megawatts for up to 100 hours. One megawatt is enough to power 670 homes on average, according to an environmental engineering professor at Rice University, Daniel Cohan for CBS Austin.
With plans to build on the site of a former paper mill in the small town of Lincoln in northern Maine, this new battery project is one piece of a nationwide energy makeover that's retooling old energy infrastructure, abandoned factories, and forgotten mines into the very foundation of the U.S. green energy revolution. But even among these "repurposed energy" projects, the battery being built in Maine is one of the most important, because when it's operational in 2028, it'll provide New England with multi-day clean energy storage—essentially back-up power for when the wind isn't blowing and the Sun isn't shining.
And it's all thanks to the power of rust. |
With long sandy beaches, glassy lakes, gentle rolling mountains, and carpets of pine, few states in the U.S. host as much moody, natural allure as the state of Maine—and now the Pine Tree State is hoping to notch yet another accolade. While not exactly a natural wonder of sorts, this record-breaking first will nonetheless help preserve what makes Maine—and all of Earth's natural spaces—special.
Soon Maine will be home to the world's largest clean-energy battery. It will be able to store 8,500 megawatt-hours of energy, which can power 85 megawatts for up to 100 hours. One megawatt is enough to power 670 homes on average, according to an environmental engineering professor at Rice University, Daniel Cohan for CBS Austin.
With plans to build on the site of a former paper mill in the small town of Lincoln in northern Maine, this new battery project is one piece of a nationwide energy makeover that's retooling old energy infrastructure, abandoned factories, and forgotten mines into the very foundation of the U.S. green energy revolution. But even among these "repurposed energy" projects, the battery being built in Maine is one of the most important, because when it's operational in 2028, it'll provide New England with multi-day clean energy storage—essentially back-up power for when the wind isn't blowing and the Sun isn't shining.
And it's all thanks to the power of rust. |
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