A Revolutionary New Battery For The Solar Power Home
Solar energy technology for homes has been around for years, but it has historically been prohibitively expensive. However, because of new photovoltaic (PV) thin-film chemistry and better production processes, costs have been recently decling sharply. Some solar panel production companies have been reporting PV panels below $2 a watt which is a four-hundred percent cost reduction below the $8 it was only a few years previously. The convergence of these factors with a remarkable new deep-storage battery technology has profound implications for the solar power house and our dependence on polluting fuels for power production.
A new generation of cost-effective, deep-storage battery has been unveiled that is the result of 10 years of research and testing that's small and safe enough to reside in your home and power it. It may well be the single most profound new technology to date for the potential supply of sufficient solar power electricity produced in the home. A company by the name of Ceramatec is the developer on this remarkable new technology.
The major contribution of their incredible battery breakthrough is that high energy density (a lot of power storage) can now be accomplished safely at temperatures below 90 degrees C which allows for solid components instead of hot liquid. It's an amazing breakthrough because currently most energy-dense batteries are very large containers of super-hot highly corrosive and toxic molten sodium - conditions very unsuitable for use in the home.
The developer indicates its new battery, about the size of a refrigerator, will store about 20 to 40 kilowatt hours of power for 3,650 daily discharge/recharge cycles over about 10 years of battery life. With the batteries anticipated to sell for about $2,000, this translates to less than 3 cents a kilowatt hour battery cost over its life. Regular power from the grid normally costs around 8 cents a kilowatt hour, and typical deep-cycling lead/acid batteries are only good for a few hundred cycles so they expire after only a year or so.
Ceramatec's new battery also has enormous possibilities for the U.S. electrical grid which is an inefficient, old approach to energy. Taking a load off the grid through electricity production and storage at home could extend the system's life and prevent the expenditure of many billions of dollars to make it "smart." However, centralized management of the energy grid necessitates the use of computers, which creates potential problems such as hackers and terrorists. Also, large-scale electricity production from centralized power plants creates the possibility of regional grid blackouts created by a "point failure" on the grid. The opportunity with this new technology is to lessen pressure on the grid and move homeowners nearer to improved energy independence.
With small-scale solar electrical generation and battery storage taking place at hundreds-of-thousands of individual houses the above problems may be significantly reduced. There is nothing more secure than producing energy by the sun at your own solar power house, and having a secure, cost-effective way to store it. It's the optimum in security, and the ultimate in control."
Ceramatec has announced that they are near to production of a commercial product, and this presents an extraordinary opportunity for home production of solar power electricity.
A new generation of cost-effective, deep-storage battery has been unveiled that is the result of 10 years of research and testing that's small and safe enough to reside in your home and power it. It may well be the single most profound new technology to date for the potential supply of sufficient solar power electricity produced in the home. A company by the name of Ceramatec is the developer on this remarkable new technology.
The major contribution of their incredible battery breakthrough is that high energy density (a lot of power storage) can now be accomplished safely at temperatures below 90 degrees C which allows for solid components instead of hot liquid. It's an amazing breakthrough because currently most energy-dense batteries are very large containers of super-hot highly corrosive and toxic molten sodium - conditions very unsuitable for use in the home.
The developer indicates its new battery, about the size of a refrigerator, will store about 20 to 40 kilowatt hours of power for 3,650 daily discharge/recharge cycles over about 10 years of battery life. With the batteries anticipated to sell for about $2,000, this translates to less than 3 cents a kilowatt hour battery cost over its life. Regular power from the grid normally costs around 8 cents a kilowatt hour, and typical deep-cycling lead/acid batteries are only good for a few hundred cycles so they expire after only a year or so.
Ceramatec's new battery also has enormous possibilities for the U.S. electrical grid which is an inefficient, old approach to energy. Taking a load off the grid through electricity production and storage at home could extend the system's life and prevent the expenditure of many billions of dollars to make it "smart." However, centralized management of the energy grid necessitates the use of computers, which creates potential problems such as hackers and terrorists. Also, large-scale electricity production from centralized power plants creates the possibility of regional grid blackouts created by a "point failure" on the grid. The opportunity with this new technology is to lessen pressure on the grid and move homeowners nearer to improved energy independence.
With small-scale solar electrical generation and battery storage taking place at hundreds-of-thousands of individual houses the above problems may be significantly reduced. There is nothing more secure than producing energy by the sun at your own solar power house, and having a secure, cost-effective way to store it. It's the optimum in security, and the ultimate in control."
Ceramatec has announced that they are near to production of a commercial product, and this presents an extraordinary opportunity for home production of solar power electricity.
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