Q&A: Oil and Gas Wells for Energy Storage

摘要

Professor Iraj Ershaghi and a team of researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) found a way to use idle oil and gas wells for energy storage - one of the major concerns for solar and wind energy generation. Professor Iraj Ershaghi: A major problem is what to do with the large number of oil and gas wells that have reached the end of their productive lives and have to be permanently abandoned. I had been thinking about what the engineering community could do to reduce abandonment cost and do it more effectively. A company approached us and said they would like to work with USC to deal with a problem facing the renewable energy industry - energy storage.