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Storage systems aimed at markets needing extended discharge duration and frequent charge/discharge cycling.
EnerVenue has started volume production of its water-based nickel-hydrogen cell, rated for 30,000 cycles, on a line sized for 250 MWh a year. Buyers can now inspect a factory, but they still need a price and warranty terms to weigh it against lithium-ion.
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NGK Insulators' 250kW/1.45MWh unit is running behind a 200kW solar array at Lava Blue's minerals site in Brisbane. It is the first sodium-sulfur system on the National Electricity Market.
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The memorandum starts with a joint feasibility study covering utility-scale storage, microgrids, data centers and industrial users. Neither company has named a project, a capacity or a date.
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Certain Energy's Series A rests on a UK constraint-payment forecast of £8bn a year by 2030. The two curtailment figures in the same account differ by a factor of three.
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The Pulsar system's non-lithium pitch for data centres now goes through an independent evaluation whose findings land in front of utility participants rather than in a vendor deck.
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