Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2010

Xcel Energy has released the preliminary results from its wind-to-battery (W2B) storage project in Minnesota, and termed the technology successful. In October 2008, Xcel began testing a one-megawatt sodium-sulfur (NaS) battery ( earlier post ) to demonstrate its ability to store wind energy and move it to the electricity grid when needed.

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Energy Storage Sodium Wind Energy 210

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

For example, output from the only nickel mine in the US, the Eagle mine in Minnesota, is sent to Canada for smelting. lithium-iron phosphate , lithium-ion phosphate , lithium-sulfur , lithium-metal , and sodium-ion among many others , not to mention solid-state batteries , as a way to alleviate some of the material supply and cost problems.

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Batteries Battery Lithium Ion Nickel Metal Hydride 96

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. Arizona State University, in partnership with Fluidic Energy Inc., DOE grant: $7,200,000). DOE grant:$5,349,932).

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Energy Grant Low Cost Li-ion 231