Energy battery from CO2, the gigantic project in Ottana: hangar visible from kilometers

A 5-hectare white hangar, which dwarfs the two chimneys of Ottana which, in front of it, look like two small stalks of straw rising into the sky, and capable of storing 20 megawatts.

A huge battery, the first in the world to run on carbon dioxide, for storing electricity from renewable sources.

The plant is the one that was built yesterday evening in the Ottana plain and is visible to the naked eye from tens of kilometers away.

According to the designers, it is the first plant in the world capable of making renewable energy dispatchable and available 24 hours a day.

Built by Energy Dome of Milan, the new plant follows the 2.5 megawatt pilot plant inaugurated in December two years ago.