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04.06.26 - 05:33
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US Govt. Lab Launches Advanced Battery Lab To Help Power Grid (ZeroHedge)
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US Govt. Lab Launches Advanced Battery Lab To Help Power Grid
Authored by Georgina Jedikovska via Interesting Engineering,
The US has recently launched a new battery production line, which is expected to help researchers develop safer and cheaper energy storage technologies for the electric grid.
PNNL's new prismatic cell line will allow researchers and industry partners to create, test and demonstrate real-world prismatic cells at an industrially relevant scale. (Andrea Starr/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
The new line is housed at the Grid Storage Launchpad (GSL), a 93,000-square-foot research facility. It is run by the Department of Energy's (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington State.
According to PNNL, the newly commissioned production line features a total of 16 pieces of equipment inside a 1,400-square-foot laboratory. It is reportedly the first prismatic battery cell production line at a US national laboratory.
Researchers at PNNL pointe...
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03.06.26 - 21:54
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Xcel Building More Modern, Resilient, Sustainable Grid, Says CEO Frenzel (Bloomberg)
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Xcel Energy CEO Bob Frenzel said that his company is investing across a wide range of energy sources including wind and solar to build a 'more modern, more resilient, more sustainable grid of the future.'
Talking to Bloomberg Washington Correspondent Tyler Kendall, Frenzel said that despite rising oil prices due to war between the US and Iran, the price of natural gas has seen little fluctuation. (Source: Bloomberg)...
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