The €22 billion turnover gas leader, French Air Liquide, says it will put €125 million into a first at scale Air Separation Unit (ASU) to make oxygen, but also to act as a 40 MWh storage facility on the grid. It is deliberately placed close to industrials centers in the Netherlands to cut down on trucked gas deliveries. In the past it has talked about electrolyzing hydrogen using renewable energy, now it is talking about cheap renewables to extract Oxygen, Nitrogen and Argon straight out of the air. The new Air Separation Unit uses 10% less electricity than previous versions and operates at around 95% efficiency, and this particular one will have a production capacity of 2,200 tons of oxygen…