Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) Market Size

Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) Market Analysis

The compressed air energy storage market is expected to grow at a CAGR of more than 42% over the forecast period of 2020-2025. Factors such as renewable integration with compressed air energy storage systems and implementation of demonstration projects, coupled with technological developments in the compressed air energy storage systems, are expected to drive the market studied during the forecast period. However, the market for compressed air energy storage systems remained underdeveloped, due to several reasons, such as lack of investment and lack of technology, which prevented the development of new compressed air energy storage plants.

• As of 2019, the diabatic compressed air energy storage systems were the only type of systems that had been deployed for commercial purposes. The first diabatic compressed air energy storage plant, Huntorf compressed air energy storage plant, was built in Germany in 1978. This compressed air energy storage plant had a capacity of 298 MW and efficiency of only around 40%. The adiabatic and isothermal compressed energy storage systems are currently in the research phase. 
• The use of compressed air energy storage in the offshore wind turbines is likely to increase as this technology is less expensive and environment friendly, creating new avenues for the compressed air energy storage players in the near future.
• At a regional level, large-scale renewable energy deployment, coupled with rising demand for large scale energy storage system, is driving the market studied in North America, which is expected to be the fastest market in terms of number of CAES projects.