公开(公告)号：WO2022006584A1

公开(公告)日：2022-01-06

申请号：PCT/US2021/070783

申请日：2021-06-28

Applicant: ENERGY VAULT, INC.

Inventor： PEDRETTI, Andrea ,  PEDRETTI-RODI, Mauro

IPC: B66C13/28 ,  B66C23/28 ,  F03G3/00 ,  B66C17/06 ,  F03G3/094 ,  H02K7/1853

Abstract: An energy storage and delivery system (100) includes a crane (120) or elevator cage (1200), where the crane or elevator cage is operable to move one or more blocks (1300) from a lower elevation to a higher elevation to store energy (e.g., via the potential energy of the block in the higher elevation) and operable to move one or more blocks from the higher elevation to the lower elevation (e.g., by gravity) to generate electricity (e.g., via the kinetic energy of the block when moved to the lower elevation). The blocks are moved between the lower elevation and the higher elevation by an equal vertical distance.