TREE NEWS update: Construction began in Yantai, Shandong, on “Ruicarbon,” China’s first demonstration project combining molten-salt energy storage with carbon dioxide power generation. The project is expected to be completed and put into operation within 2027, marking a step forward in integrating supercritical CO2 cycle power generation with new energy storage. It is intended to provide practical experience for scaling such storage technology across multiple scenarios and support China’s new power system build-out.
China’s first molten-salt storage plus CO2 power demo project starts in Yantai
AI take
Pairing molten-salt storage with a supercritical CO2 cycle is a system-design bet, not just another storage build: it tests whether thermal storage can be coupled to a smaller-footprint generation block rather than conventional steam turbines. The Yantai demo matters mainly as a data point on that integration, since the stated goal is practical experience for scaling across scenarios. Whether the pairing proves replicable outside a demonstration — and how it fits into grid build-out — is the open question.
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