California is looking for new technology transfer to get better energy storage

Solar photovoltaic webex: introduction: according to the last month launched a tender, the California energy commission ( CEC） Will be for the development of other than the lithium ion battery energy storage technology to raise $11 million. The agency is looking for a set of emerging client based energy storage projects, another group of focus only on the client electrolytic hydrogen energy storage.

energy storage policy association, vice President of Jason & middot; Bowen ( 杰森Burwen) Said the bidding was 100% of California clean energy regulatory requirements as well as to a wide variety of energy storage for a long time demand. But the update of energy storage technology is likely to face many challenges in the market.

according to Burwen, solar energy, lithium ion batteries in the past decade has been occupying the dominant position of storage space, this is mainly due to the global energy storage electric car market the expansion of manufacturing capacity to lower the cost.

CEC that California's ambitious clean-energy goals not only to meet with the current energy storage technology, solar portal, because of insufficient energy density, long life and expensive, so in the state is not workable.

in the tender, the agency, along with the increase in the power grid, California on the share of renewable energy, solar energy portal, the state will need to be more cost-effective high performance energy storage system, it will need to shift to emerging technology.

CEC said: & other; Support the emerging technology of the time is right, the performance of these techniques may be superior to the existing energy storage technology, because California quite a number of energy storage technology is installed in the last few years, need to 7 to 15 years in the future to upgrade or replacement. ”

CEC are still in the research and development phase of the energy storage project funding. The first batch of the lithium ion project may include flow batteries, flywheel, storage technologies such as heat and compressed air system & ndash; — Developers will have to show how to improve the energy density of their equipment, improve the flexibility, reliability, and affordability of relative to the current technology. In particular, according to Burwen, CEC are looking for is able to provide longer service life, long life cycle, and on the operation safer than lithium ion battery energy storage technology.

on the other hand, the only key will be to a second set of electrolytic hydrogen storage technology from the laboratory prototype into a field test, and the proposal must show its commercial potential of the system and price forecast. The two groups can include fossil fuels in the proposed energy storage system.

at the same time, the lithium ion storage technology is essentially in & other; Chasing a moving target & throughout; , Burwen added. If the lithium ion battery costs continue to drop in the coming years, new technologies will have to meet the cost of more intensive benchmark. Emerging technology developers still need to figure out how to get additional performance pay, such as a longer duration.

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