Highview Power has partnered waste management firm Viridor to build what they believe is the first Liquid Air Energy Storage (LAES) plant in the world – near Bury, at the Pilsworth landfill gas site. Highview, with backing from GE, used £8m of government funding in the joint project, through the Energy Innovation Program, and the results look rather promising. KiWi Power has already announced that it will be using the 5 MW (15 mWh) LAES plant to provide ancillary services to the wider grid – feeding in power when there is a shortage in return for payments, and also storing power when there is a surplus. These ancillary services and storage capacity are key to integrating more renewable sources of…