Technologies
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Lead-Acid Batteries
Description:
Lead-acid is one of the oldest and most developed battery technologies. It is a low cost and popular storage choice for power quality, UPS and some spinning reserve applications. Its application for energy management, however, has been very limited due to its short cycle life. The amount of energy (kWh) that a lead-acid battery can deliver is not fixed and depends on its rate of discharge.
Lead-acid batteries, nevertheless, have been used in a few commercial and large-scale energy management applications. The largest one is a 40 MWh system in Chino, California, built in 1988. The table below lists and compares the lead-acid storage systems that are larger than 1MWh.
Developers / Suppliers:
GNB Industrial Power/Exide
Delco
East Penn
Teledyne
Optima Batteries
Winston Salem
JCI Battery Group
Trojan
Crown Battery