First sodium-ion battery storage station at grid level opens with cells that can be charged in 12 minutes
First sodium-ion battery storage station at grid level opens with cells that can be charged in 12 minutes
Clean electricity generation paired with the first grid-level sodium battery energy storage system can bring costs down to just $0.028 per kWh. The 10 MWh storage capacity is executed with sodium-ion cells that can be charged in just 12 minutes.
Time until full charge isnt really a relevant metric for utility storage, you want larger storage, which would increase full charge time. Rate of charge is what matters.
210 Ah cells to 90% in 12 minutes.
Assuming I can math early on a Monday morning:
90% of 210 is 189
189 / 12 is 15.75
So they charge at 15.75 an Ah per minute. Not sure how that compares honestly.
The C rating is generally what battery charging (and discharging) is measured in. C being the capacity of the pack. So if the pack is 10 Ah and it takes 10 hours to charge it's 1c, if it takes 1 hour to charge then it's 10c.
I found this high current battery pack that's rated for 30c. https://www.lipobattery.us/high-discharge-lithium-ion-battery-30c-2/
I don't feel like doing the math for this battery pack.
Ah doesn't really tell us the capacity of the battery unless we know what voltage it's running at
They're brand new and the writer needs a number to look impressive.
but that catched my attention for EVs.
And last decades
I'm curious what the temperature resiliency is for sodium-ion batteries. I had a power outage recently where I was relying on a lithium-ion battery. As the temperature in the house plunged, it because so inefficient that charging a single phone overnight drained a quarter of the battery.
Source: https://batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-502-discharging-at-high-and-low-temperatures
I don't have any data on sodium-ion.
It was slightly above freezing in the house, so definitely not operating at peak efficiency. From a brief search, it looks like sodium-ion does have a similar temperature sensitivity, though it may be to a different degree.
If I'm not mistaken sodium ion is better with temperature and durability. The biggest problem is energy density, so they can't compete in any applications where size and weight matter. This leads to their 2nd biggest problem, which is that there's so much production infrastructure for lithium that no one wants to invest in new assemblies for other battery chemistries
They're meant to have a much wider temperature range than Li-ion, theoretically.
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Battery temp is certainly a problem. Hard to compare between y'all's stories what the issues are.
If I'm not mistaken, those portable power stations with AC inverters consume power even when not in use. You probably should use the DC output wherever possible.
It has outputs through USB-A, USB-C, AC, and DC-vehicle (whatever it's called). I think the AC inverter was off, though I had been using it earlier. I was definitely charging fully through the USB-C output. Good point, though.
Wonder if there's a trade off with the faster charging, or if it's just a side effect of the grid power setup.
How many decades do they last before needing replacement?
They're meant to survive an order of magnitude more cycles than Li-ion. But I'm containing my enthusiasm until we see them lasting a long time in real life use.
I have read encouraging numbers about charge cycles for sodium batteries, I'm quite curious too about real values.