Zinc-air battery at $45/kWh

Photowhit
Photowhit Solar Expert Posts: 6,014 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited January 2020 in Off Grid Solar & Battery Systems #1
Well very little info on specs efficiency (guessing it varies good bit on input and output), longevity, self discharge, etc...

Looks like they have l00 kWh model rotomolded nd perhaps ready to go.

Love to  know more,  

Zinc-air battery being deployed in New York aims for extremely low $45/kWh cost
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  • Photowhit
    Photowhit Solar Expert Posts: 6,014 ✭✭✭✭✭
    #2
    I can see  l00 kWh battery at $4500 that is long lived putting lots of California in the 'cost effective' range for off grid living...

    ...also  creating   more problems with electrical infrastructure cost spread among few subscribers  yet further increasing electrical  costs.
    Home system 4000 watt (Evergreen) array standing, with 2 Midnite Classic Lites,  Midnite E-panel, Magnum MS4024, Prosine 1800(now backup) and Exeltech 1100(former backup...lol), 660 ah 24v Forklift battery(now 10 years old). Off grid for 20 years (if I include 8 months on a bicycle).
    - Assorted other systems, pieces and to many panels in the closet to not do more projects.
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  • Marc Kurth
    Marc Kurth Solar Expert Posts: 1,175 ✭✭✭✭
    #3
    Photowhit said:
    I can see  l00 kWh battery at $4500 that is long lived putting lots of California in the 'cost effective' range for off grid living...

    ...also  creating   more problems with electrical infrastructure cost spread among few subscribers  yet further increasing electrical  costs.

    This "painful period of transition" is not addressed often enough!
    I always have more questions than answers. That's the nature of life.
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  • mike95490
    mike95490 Solar Expert Posts: 9,583 ✭✭✭✭✭
    #4
    Would be nice if it works in the field
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  • Dave Angelini
    Dave Angelini Solar Expert Posts: 6,942 ✭✭✭✭✭✭
    #5
    Yea with all of those moving parts....
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  • Photowhit
    Photowhit Solar Expert Posts: 6,014 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    mike95490 said:
    Would be nice if it works in the field
    Glad to see field test of it.  
    Sure we'll here if it works out...
    ...failures will be quietly buried in field.
    Home system 4000 watt (Evergreen) array standing, with 2 Midnite Classic Lites,  Midnite E-panel, Magnum MS4024, Prosine 1800(now backup) and Exeltech 1100(former backup...lol), 660 ah 24v Forklift battery(now 10 years old). Off grid for 20 years (if I include 8 months on a bicycle).
    - Assorted other systems, pieces and to many panels in the closet to not do more projects.
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