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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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

For instance, automakers are demanding these suppliers absorb more cost cuts because automakers are finding EVs so expensive to build. For example, output from the only nickel mine in the US, the Eagle mine in Minnesota, is sent to Canada for smelting. Even for the large auto suppliers, the transition to EVs will not be an easy road.

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Battery Batteries Lithium Ion Nickel Metal Hydride 91

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Planar Na-beta Batteries for Renewable Integration and Grid Applications. 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. Water (1 project).

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