{"id":171531,"date":"2023-09-07T13:26:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T18:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/zinc-bromide-batteries-get-us-government-help-to-scale-up"},"modified":"2023-09-07T13:26:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T18:26:19","slug":"zinc-bromide-batteries-get-us-government-help-to-scale-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/zinc-bromide-batteries-get-us-government-help-to-scale-up","title":{"rendered":"Zinc bromide batteries get US government help to scale up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/zinc-bromide-batteries-get-us-government-help-to-scale-up2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new facility will be able to produce battery capacity to power 130,000 homes on a daily basis using renewable energy.<\/p>\n<p>Zinc halide batteries touted as a low-cost alternative to battery energy storage system (BESS) have received a significant boost in the US after the Department of Energy (DOE) offered a $400 million loan to help scale production and reduce manufacturing costs, a press release said. The offer will cover setting up of four production lines at battery maker Eos\u2019 facility in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Lithium-ion batteries are a crucial component of our attempts to switch to a greener economy powered by renewable energy. Although the technology is ubiquitous these days and powers everyday devices like smartphones and even electric vehicles (EVs), it is still very expensive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new facility will be able to produce battery capacity to power 130,000 homes on a daily basis using renewable energy. Zinc halide batteries touted as a low-cost alternative to battery energy storage system (BESS) have received a significant boost in the US after the Department of Energy (DOE) offered a $400 million loan to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1490,1512,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-government","category-mobile-phones","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}