Lakeland Electric is breaking new ground as the first US utility to pilot a liquid nitrogen generation facility. (FOX 13)
The half-acre facility will produce 5 MW using solar thermal heat stored through the day and tapped at night through liquid nitrogen. By size comparison, a traditional solar farm would need 25 acres to do the same job.
Built with American Independent Power, the system is designed for flexibility and could scale from neighborhood-level pilots to 100-MW utility-scale installations.
Beyond testing the technology, the utility wants to study how distributed liquid nitrogen systems can inject power directly at substations—a potential resilience play if transmission lines go down.