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      "definition": "Capping the energy a battery cycles per day or year so that lifetime throughput stays within the warranty allowance and degradation stays on plan. Grid-storage warranties are often written around one equivalent full cycle per day, so the energy management system weighs every extra megawatt-hour traded against the life it consumes.",
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        "energy-throughput"
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        "lede": "Where batteries are used, and the terms used to buy, size and compare them.",
        "context": "Start with mission energy, peak power and operating conditions.",
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        "definition": "The manufacturer’s guarantee of capacity retention over time, for electric cars typically 70 % after 8 years or 160 000 km. It is written against state of health as the BMS reports it, which makes the SOH algorithm a contractual matter.",
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        "definition": "Total charge throughput divided by nominal capacity, so that many shallow cycles count as the equivalent number of full ones. It lets cycle life be compared across different duty cycles.",
        "formula": "EFC = ΣQ_throughput / (2·Q_nominal)",
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        "section": "topic-aging",
        "definition": "Degradation caused by charging and discharging: mechanical strain in the particles, fresh SEI on cracked surfaces and, at high rate or low temperature, lithium plating. It scales with charge throughput and grows with depth of discharge and C-rate.",
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        "definition": "The total lifetime cost of a storage system divided by the total energy it will discharge, in currency per megawatt-hour. It folds cell price, efficiency, cycle life and degradation into one figure for comparing technologies.",
        "unit": "€/MWh",
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          "cycle-life",
          "energy-efficiency",
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      "id": "term:energy-throughput",
      "type": "Term",
      "label": "Energy throughput",
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        "id": "energy-throughput",
        "name": "Energy throughput",
        "aka": [
          "lifetime throughput",
          "MWh throughput",
          "charge throughput",
          "Ah throughput"
        ],
        "section": "topic-ratings",
        "definition": "The total energy a battery has delivered, or charged and discharged, over its life, counted in kWh or MWh. Discharged energy divided by usable energy gives equivalent full cycles. Stationary-storage and electric-bus warranties often set a throughput limit alongside years, because aging tracks the energy cycled as well as time.",
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