Architecture and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) and energy-storage technology firm Energy Vault have announced a partnership to further develop gravity-based energy storage.
As a a leading designer of numerous supertall towers around the world, SOM sees a natural fit with Energy Vault's vertical-oriented energy-storage solutions, which use the inverters and turbine-turning principles of pumped hydroelectric power and recovered power from rapidly lowering weights. Excess potential energy comes from the basic equation of potential energy equals gravity times mass times height.
