World’s largest battery to be installed in New England: Iron-Air battery with capacity of 8,500 mWh
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/long-duration-energy-storage/form-energy-set-to-build-worlds-biggest-battery-in-maine
World’s largest battery to be installed in New England: Iron-Air battery with capacity of 8,500 mWh
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/long-duration-energy-storage/form-energy-set-to-build-worlds-biggest-battery-in-maine
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8500 mWh is a pretty small battery, only about 50% bigger than the original iPhone battery
Iron air batteries are made with cheap and abandunt iron. They cost one tenth of lithium ion battery per kWh. Iron-air batteries can store energy for weeks unlike lithium ion battery which is used for peak supplying.
Iron-air batteries have an efficiency of 60%. This can be increased to up to 96% adding small amount of bismuth sulfide.
This new battery plant has a capacity of 8,500 mega watt-hours. (Autocorection turned MWh into mWh in the title mistakenly)
>So far, it has won contracts with traditional utilities to build a few megawatts of power capacity with 100 hours of duration — even signing those contracts is a feat, given utilities’ typical reticence about trying new things.
Getting to that scale is a mighty leap from where they are currently. I guess it’s the 170 million grant that swings this deal but they will at least have a famous demo plant in operation.
8500 milli watt hours is not very large battery.
As a physicist this title makes me a cringe a little. From context I have to assume the “m” was supposed to be capitalized, i.e., mega-watt-hours.