{"id":80923,"date":"2018-07-25T06:02:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T13:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/novel-membrane-advances-low-cost-grid-scale-energy-storage"},"modified":"2018-07-25T06:02:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T13:02:22","slug":"novel-membrane-advances-low-cost-grid-scale-energy-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/novel-membrane-advances-low-cost-grid-scale-energy-storage","title":{"rendered":"Novel membrane advances low-cost, grid-scale energy storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/novel-membrane-advances-low-cost-grid-scale-energy-storage.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists have developed a crucial component for a new kind of low-cost stationary battery system utilizing common materials and designed for grid-scale electricity storage.<\/p>\n<p>Large, economical electricity storage systems can benefit the nation\u2019s grid in numerous ways: balancing loads between peak and off-peak demand times; supplying energy during outages; storing electricity from fluctuating sources like wind and solar power; and accommodating extreme fast charging of electric vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The grid chiefly relies on hydropower facilities for <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/energy+storage\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">energy storage<\/a>, although stationary systems using lithium-ion batteries are increasing. However, lithium is expensive and mostly sourced from countries outside the United States.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2018-07-membrane-advances-low-cost-grid-scale-energy.html\">https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2018&#45;07-membrane-advances-lo...nergy.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists have developed a crucial component for a new kind of low-cost stationary battery system utilizing common materials and designed for grid-scale electricity storage. Large, economical electricity storage systems can benefit the nation\u2019s grid in numerous ways: balancing loads between peak and off-peak demand times; supplying energy during outages; storing electricity [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80923","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}