Salt caverns are not just for natural gas and oil anymore, according to a Texas company that plans to begin storing another form of energy underground: wind. A compressed air energy storage (CAES) facility with 317 megawatts of generating capacity — and the ability to provide 15,000 megawatt-hours of electricity over a two-day period without recharging — is projected to be completed by the summer of 2020.
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