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enhances the peaker capabilities of gas turbines by traditional operating efficiency without impacting start-
substantially expanding their operating range, thanks to up times, and to integrate the possibility of arbitrage, as
the integration of a CO bottoming cycle combined with an additional service.
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a storage system. The hybrid configuration of a gas Both CO Battery and ETCC have a plant configuration
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turbine integrated with an energy storage solution that integrates a power train consisting of rotating
allows the resulting combined cycle to be operated machines with a part of the plant aimed at the efficient
both with peaker functionality and for arbitrage management of storage systems, combining in an
purposes, supporting the electricity grid in compensating innovative way some typical power generation
the volatility of renewable energy generation or resolving components with other specific elements, to ensure
grid congestion. maximum operational flexibility and full process
reversibility.
The ETCC configuration is also available as add-on, This functional separation reflects in the possibility of
applicable to existing gas turbines in an open cycle sizing the system power independently of the operating
configuration: the upgrade makes it possible to increase duration of the storage system, thus allowing the

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