Long-duration energy storage

Example

Use in Lemonergy

Start with mission energy, peak power and operating conditions.

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E-rate

Power divided by nominal energy, the energy-based cousin of the C-rate: a 1E discharge empties a cell’s watt-hours in one hour. Grid-storage contracts are often written in E-rates or hours of discharge rather than in amperes.

Flow battery

A battery whose energy is stored in liquid electrolytes held in external tanks and pumped through a reaction stack. Energy and power scale independently, which suits long-duration grid storage; vanadium is the most developed chemistry.

Levelized cost of storage

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.

Stationary storage

Batteries installed in a fixed place — a container at a solar farm, a cabinet in a home — to shift energy in time or support the grid. LFP cells dominate because cost per cycle and safety matter more than mass.

References & further reading

Technical references

1. DOE/EPRI 2013 Electricity Storage Handbook in Collaboration with NRECA

   Sandia National Laboratories · 2013

   Technical reference · Storage technologies and grid services. The publisher notes that its historical cost and deployment figures are outdated.