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I think I mentioned this in another thread, but it took me a while to stumble across company information related to the earlier science article I found.
Yet Ming, the same guy who brought us A123 (which is back on solid financial footing, and their batteries are still notable for the total number of charge cycles they can obtain) and 24M (the semi-solid battery which is now in low volume production with first big plants being built in Australia) is now pursuing grid solutions capable of not just daily or weekly storage, but of....
Affordable Seasonal Storage!!!
That's right, the technology which they have an early demonstrator of (a bit limited so far at only 1,500 charge cycles, but it's still in its infancy) for which the materials cost is only $1 / Kwh, which would suggest a finished product cost in the vicinity of $5/Kwh. That would make it economical to store energy gathered in the southwest in the summer, trickle charge it up north, and release it in the Northeast in the winter.
The company is Baseload Renewables.
I predict they will have a marketable product within 4 years.
Yet Ming, the same guy who brought us A123 (which is back on solid financial footing, and their batteries are still notable for the total number of charge cycles they can obtain) and 24M (the semi-solid battery which is now in low volume production with first big plants being built in Australia) is now pursuing grid solutions capable of not just daily or weekly storage, but of....
Affordable Seasonal Storage!!!
That's right, the technology which they have an early demonstrator of (a bit limited so far at only 1,500 charge cycles, but it's still in its infancy) for which the materials cost is only $1 / Kwh, which would suggest a finished product cost in the vicinity of $5/Kwh. That would make it economical to store energy gathered in the southwest in the summer, trickle charge it up north, and release it in the Northeast in the winter.
The company is Baseload Renewables.
I predict they will have a marketable product within 4 years.