As featured in Engineering News-Record, we have partnered with Energy Vault to further develop gravity-based energy storage.
As a leading designer of numerous supertall towers around the world, we saw 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.
“The partnership we have agreed to is one wherein we would be their architect and engineer for these new structures,” says Adam Semel, SOM managing partner in Chicago. He adds that SOM is also willing to partner with other firms it identifies in parts of the world where it doesn’t have an office on energy storage projects as it does on its building and infrastructure projects.