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DOE Funds Research Into Long-Duration Energy Storage Using Lead-Acid Batteries

The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on Best Magazine.

This is the sub-heading

US federal cash is on its way to fund research into long-duration energy storage using lead-acid batteries.

These two paragraphs give more details.

A consortium backed by industry bodies Battery Council International and the Consortium for Battery Innovation, will conduct pre-competitive research aimed at improving lead battery performance. Companies participating in the consortium include Advanced Battery Concepts, C&D/Trojan, Clarios, Crown Battery, East Penn Manufacturing, EnerSys, Gridtential and Stryten Energy. The collaborating national laboratories are Argonne, Oak Ridge and Pacific Northwest (PNNL).

The $5 million award from the US Department of Energy, announced on 27 September, will support work to develop lead batteries capable of 10+ hours of storage with a pathway to $0.05/kWh levelised cost of storage by 2030.

Note.

1. The companies involved have names that indicate they could be battery makers.
2. The collaborating national laboratories are world-class Premier League players.
3. Over the nearly fifty years, that I drove cars, lead-acid batteries improved a lot and there might be more to come.
4. The last paragraph is ambitious, unless they know more than I do about lead-acid batteries. Which is likely!

This is also said in one of Highview Power’s news items.

Highview Power, the global leader in long-duration energy storage solutions, is pleased to announce that it has developed a modular cryogenic energy storage system, the CRYOBattery, that is scalable up to multiple gigawatts of energy storage and can be located anywhere. This technology reaches a new benchmark for a levelized cost of storage (LCOS) of $140/MWh for a 10-hour, 200 MW/2 GWh system. Highview Power’s cryogenic energy storage system is equivalent in performance to, and could potentially replace, a fossil fuel power station. Highview Power’s systems can enable renewable energy baseload power at large scale, while also supporting electricity and distribution systems and providing energy security.

The battery researchers are saying $0.05/kWh levelised cost of storage by 2030 and Highview Power are saying $0.14/kWh for the same parameter.

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November 21, 2024 - Posted by AnonW | Energy, Energy Storage | Batteries, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Highview Power, Lead-Acid Batteries, Research