US agency says it has beaten Elon Musk and Gates to holy grail of battery storage [View all]
Source: The Guardian
Breakthrough in next generation of storage batteries could transform the US electrical grid within five to 10 years,
says research agency, Arpa-E
Large-scale energy storage systems are needed to enable electricity companies to bring more solar and wind power on to the grid. Photograph: Jan Woitas/Corbis
A US government agency says it has attained the “holy grail” of energy – the next-generation system of battery storage, that has has been hotly pursued by the likes of Bill Gates and Elon Musk.
Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (Arpa-E) – a branch of the Department of Energy – says it achieved its breakthrough technology in seven years.
Ellen Williams, Arpa-E’s director, said: “I think we have reached some holy grails in batteries – just in the sense of demonstrating that we can create a totally new approach to battery technology, make it work, make it commercially viable, and get it out there to let it do its thing,”
If that’s the case, Arpa-E has come out ahead of Gates and Musk in the multi-billion-dollar race to build the next generation battery for power companies and home storage
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/03/us-agency-says-has-beaten-elon-musk-gates-to-holy-grail-battery-storage
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