China completes world’s largest salt cavern compressed air energy storage project

The world’s largest salt cavern compressed air energy storage project has completed the full start-up of its two 350-MW units in Changzhou, east China’s Jiangsu Province, marking a breakthrough in the country’s core technologies and system integration capabilities in this field.

Dubbed a “super power bank,” the project can store up to 2.8 million kWh of electricity in a single cycle and is capable of around 330 charge–discharge cycles annually.

Source: Modern China, September 23, 2026. https://www.facebook.com/PDChinaBusiness

Modern China is a site operated by Peoples Daily, the largest newspaper group in China.


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