Comments on: Energy storage hits the fast track, doubling year-over-year installations 2019 Trends: A Solar Power World special feature https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2019/06/energy-storage-hits-the-fast-track-doubling-year-over-year-installations/ Covering the world of solar power technology, development and installation. Mon, 09 Dec 2019 19:01:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 By: Solarman https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2019/06/energy-storage-hits-the-fast-track-doubling-year-over-year-installations/#comment-61635 Wed, 05 Jun 2019 04:33:29 +0000 https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/?p=85886#comment-61635 As the article mentions, TESLA in on the “tip of the tongue”, by 56% of those wanting behind the meter energy storage. Yet TESLA isn’t aggressively going after the home market or the home development market with their product, Biiiiiiggggg Mistake.

Now Simpliphi, LG Chem, Panasonic and Sonnen are going after the residential energy storage market. I don’t know about the other energy storage system companies, Sonnen is aggressively courting housing tract developers for an entire system, that would be installed on all of the homes in the tract. Arbitrage is just one function of these energy storage systems. The last information I could find on TESLA is they are still using Li, Ni, Co or Li, Mg, Co high density lithium ion batteries. Prone to overheat and cause fires. Simpliphi and Sonnen have adopted the less energy dense but more stable LiFePO4 battery technology. Unfortunately from testing the most stabile lithium ion technology battery is the LTO or lithium titanate battery. The energy density and voltage of this battery type is low compared to the other lithium ion battery chemistries. At 80 to 100Wh/L these LTO batteries would require a 6 foot by 6 foot by 6 foot box to hold a battery pack of about 20kWh. Sonnen is doing that same thing in 6 by 4 by 2 for 20kWh. Sonnen says their product is good for 10 years, the LTO technology depending on once or twice a day charge/discharge cycling, could be online for 25 to 50 years.

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