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Electrical Energy Storage for the Grid: A Battery of Choices

2011/11/17 by Bruce Dunn, Haresh Kamath, Jean-Marie Tarascon +1 · 14,871 citations
Engineering · #Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies #Advanced Battery Technologies Research #Advanced battery technologies research #Automotive engineering #Battery (electricity) #Capital cost #Computer science #Distributed generation #Electrical engineering #Energy storage #Engineering #Environmental science #Grid #Grid energy storage #Power (physics) #Reliability (semiconductor) #Reliability engineering #Renewable energy

paper · doi:10.1126/science.1212741

published in Science 334(6058), 928-935 (American Association for the Advancement of Science)

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Abstract

The increasing interest in energy storage for the grid can be attributed to multiple factors, including the capital costs of managing peak demands, the investments needed for grid reliability, and the integration of renewable energy sources. Although existing energy storage is dominated by pumped hydroelectric, there is the recognition that battery systems can offer a number of high-value opportunities, provided that lower costs can be obtained. The battery systems reviewed here include sodium-sulfur batteries that are commercially available for grid applications, redox-flow batteries that offer low cost, and lithium-ion batteries whose development for commercial electronics and electric vehicles is being applied to grid storage.

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