Development of a reinforced concrete foundation system for renewable energy storage using compressed air technology

Abstract

The utilization of renewable energy leads to challenges of efficient energy generation, reliable energy storage and economic energy transportation. One of them is caused by the intermittent nature of renewable energy, which requires efficient methods for energy storage matching the generation of renewable energy with customer demands. Thus this project is to develop a reliable, safe and economic renewable energy storage media utilizing one of building structural components: a reinforced concrete (RC) foundation system. The proposed RC foundation system, in addition used for transferring structure loads into soils or rocks underground, will be configured to store renewable energy generated from solar panels or wind mills attached to building structures through compressed air energy storage (CAES) technology.