Hacker News with Generative AI: Energy Storage

How We Got the Lithium-Ion Battery (construction-physics.com)
The lithium-ion battery is, obviously, an extremely important technology. It helped make portable electronics possible, from laptops to smartphones to drones. It’s literally powering the transition to electric vehicles, and it’s increasingly finding a role in grid-scale energy storage, enabling more construction of intermittent renewables and helping with electric power decarbonization.

Lithium-ion Batteries, Technology, Energy Storage, Electric Vehicles

82 points by JumpCrisscross 4 days ago | 24 comments

BYD launches sodium-ion grid-scale BESS product (energy-storage.news)
Chinese EV giant BYD has launched what an executive claimed is the ‘world’s first high-performance’ sodium-ion BESS product, using its proprietary form factor Long Blade Battery cell.

Battery Technology, Energy Storage, China, Electric Vehicles

138 points by toomuchtodo 5 days ago | 150 comments

Solid-state batteries enter pilot production, costs expected to drastically drop (pv-magazine.com)
The push to commercialize solid-state batteries (SSBs) is underway with industries from automotive to storage betting on the technology. But while the hype around full solid-state batteries has somewhat subsided, with the technology taking longer than expected to take off, semi-solid-state batteries, which use a hybrid design of solid and liquid electrolyte, have been making steady progress toward commercialization.

Solid-State Batteries, Battery Technology, Energy Storage, Automotive

30 points by rustoo 31 days ago | 4 comments

US power grid added battery equivalent of 20 nuclear reactors in past four years (theguardian.com)
Faced with worsening climate-driven disasters and an electricity grid increasingly supplied by intermittent renewables, the US is rapidly installing huge batteries that are already starting to help prevent power blackouts.

Renewable Energy, Climate Change, Energy Storage, Power Grids, United States

18 points by toomuchtodo 37 days ago | 12 comments

Energy Storage is a solved problem (pv-magazine.com)
There are thousands of extraordinarily good pumped hydro energy storage sites around the world with extraordinarily low capital cost. When coupled with batteries, the resulting hybrid system has large energy storage, low cost for both energy and power, and rapid response. Storage is a solved problem.

Energy Storage, Renewable Energy, Pumped Hydro, Batteries

13 points by simonebrunozzi 42 days ago | 2 comments

$1B Solar and Battery Storage Project Breaks Ground in Utah (electrek.co)
Renewables developer rPlus Energies has broken ground on one of the largest solar + battery storage projects in the US, in east-central Utah.

Renewables, Energy Storage, Utah, Solar Energy

66 points by m463 70 days ago | 34 comments

Grid-scale batteries: They're not just lithium (arstechnica.com)
As power utilities and industrial companies seek to use more renewable energy, the market for grid-scale batteries is expanding rapidly.

Renewable Energy, Energy Storage, Batteries

9 points by dangle1 74 days ago | 2 comments

Sunamp's thermal battery uses a chemical found in salt-and-vinegar potato chips (techcrunch.com)
Nearly 20 years ago, Andrew Bissell was sitting in the living room of his beachfront home in the Edinburgh area. He and his wife, Susan Lang-Bissell, had just sold their medical imaging startup, and he was pondering his future.

Energy Storage, Technology, Green Energy, Innovation

12 points by PaulHoule 80 days ago | 7 comments

Batteries Will Not Solve Renewable Energy Storage Problem (2023) (dailysceptic.org)

Renewable Energy, Energy Storage, Battery Technology

3 points by mpweiher 95 days ago | 0 comments

Form Energy to build largest battery energy storage system in Maine (cleantechnica.com)

Energy Storage, Maine, Cleantech, Battery

8 points by namanyayg 105 days ago | 0 comments

Form Energy to Build World’s Largest Battery Energy Storage System in Maine (cleantechnica.com)

Energy Storage, Renewable Energy, Maine, Batteries

13 points by toomuchtodo 108 days ago | 4 comments

An open-source flow battery kit (dualpower.supply)