With the completion of its last de-risking phase in early June, Milan-based energy storage company Energy Dome SpA said its carbon dioxide (CO2) battery is set to hit the market.

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“Our breakthrough technology, the CO2 Battery, is now commercially available to make cost-effective renewable energy dispatchable on a global scale,” said Energy Dome CEO Claudio Spadacini. 

The CO2 battery would be the first of its kind and it could offer solutions to the intermittent nature of renewable energy generation, such as wind and solar, according to Energy Dome. 

While charging, the battery absorbs power from the grid and draws CO2 from an atmospheric gas container, aka the dome, and is compressed into a liquid state. Heat generated from compressing the CO2 is stored in two thermal...