Altair Nanotechnologies, a Nevada company that makes high-powered battery systems, has completed validation testing of a two-megawatt, 500 kilowatt-hour battery system that holds real promise in the effort to find a way to store energy and feed it in reliable increments to the nation’s electrical grid.
The system, purchased by AES Corp., was tested at a substation owned by Indianapolis Power & Light.
Developers hail it as a big step toward commercial deployment of grid-scale energy storage systems.
If things stay on track, the system could help utilities move toward greater use of wind and solar power generation. A summary of the validation report tells how they did it.
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This could be very good news both for grid storage and also for electric cars. If we can get a car up to a few hundred miles capacity then it could make a perfect ’second’ car for just about anyone. Or, as a plug-in hybrid even better.