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Title: FLUIDIC: Metal Air Recharged

Abstract

Fluidic, with the help of ARPA-E funding, has developed and deployed the world's first proven high cycle life metal air battery. Metal air technology, often used in smaller scale devices like hearing aids, has the lowest cost per electron of any rechargeable battery storage in existence. Deploying these batteries for grid reliability is competitive with pumped hydro installations while having the advantages of a small footprint. Fluidic's battery technology allows utilities and other end users to store intermittent energy generated from solar and wind, as well as maintain reliable electrical delivery during power outages. The batteries are manufactured in the US and currently deployed to customers in emerging markets for cell tower reliability. As they continue to add customers, they've gained experience and real world data that will soon be leveraged for US grid reliability.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
US Department of Energy (USDOE), Washington DC (United States). Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1126710
Resource Type:
Multimedia
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
25 ENERGY STORAGE; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; BATTERY; ENERGY; STORAGE; METAL AIR BATTERY

Citation Formats

Friesen, Cody. FLUIDIC: Metal Air Recharged. United States: N. p., 2014. Web.
Friesen, Cody. FLUIDIC: Metal Air Recharged. United States.
Friesen, Cody. 2014. "FLUIDIC: Metal Air Recharged". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1126710.
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abstractNote = {Fluidic, with the help of ARPA-E funding, has developed and deployed the world's first proven high cycle life metal air battery. Metal air technology, often used in smaller scale devices like hearing aids, has the lowest cost per electron of any rechargeable battery storage in existence. Deploying these batteries for grid reliability is competitive with pumped hydro installations while having the advantages of a small footprint. Fluidic's battery technology allows utilities and other end users to store intermittent energy generated from solar and wind, as well as maintain reliable electrical delivery during power outages. The batteries are manufactured in the US and currently deployed to customers in emerging markets for cell tower reliability. As they continue to add customers, they've gained experience and real world data that will soon be leveraged for US grid reliability.},
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year = {Fri Mar 07 00:00:00 EST 2014},
month = {Fri Mar 07 00:00:00 EST 2014}
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