Navigating the Energy Transition: Market Insights & LAES Integration

Quantifying the shift toward long-duration storage and the strategic phase-out of fossil-fuel peaker plants.

Existing Peaker Plants

Repowered with CES’s liquid air energy storage, these plants can supply peak power, participate in energy markets, and achieve strong economics by replacing inefficient legacy turbines (~20%) with 85%+ efficient storage and leveraging price arbitrage between off-peak purchases and peak sales.

Analysis of US Peaker Plants

PlantsMegawatts
US Peaker Plants 1,171 2,971,000
Operational Peakers1,026234,000
Operational or Planned  To Be Decomissioned4924,744
Decomissioned9633,634