Uploaded August 2008 | Updated September 2026, 16 minutes ago
General Compression is developing the Dispatchable Wind Power System (DWPS)™ to transform wind into a reliable, cost-competitive, and profitable mainstream power source.
The DWPS comprises air-compressing Dispatchable Wind turbines, underground compressed air storage, and expander/generators that take in the compressed air, accept heat, and produce electric power.
The DWPS enables the wind power producer to sell power according to power production commitments or when demand is high, to avoid losses due to curtailment, to optimize the use of expensive and scarce access to the transmission grid, and to provide ancillary grid services such as capacity, spinning reserve, regulating reserve, load following, and voltage support.
In other words, the DWPS enables clean, carbon-neutral wind to compete favorably with fossil fuel and nuclear sources to provide baseload, peak-load, or standalone off-grid power.
General Compression is developing the Dispatchable Wind Power System (DWPS)™ to transform wind into a reliable, cost-competitive, and profitable mainstream power source.
The DWPS comprises air-compressing Dispatchable Wind turbines, underground compressed air storage, and expander/generators that take in the compressed air, accept heat, and produce electric power.
The DWPS enables the wind power producer to sell power according to power production commitments or when demand is high, to avoid losses due to curtailment, to optimize the use of expensive and scarce access to the transmission grid, and to provide ancillary grid services such as capacity, spinning reserve, regulating reserve, load following, and voltage support.
In other words, the DWPS enables clean, carbon-neutral wind to compete favorably with fossil fuel and nuclear sources to provide baseload, peak-load, or standalone off-grid power.
