Sodium-Ion Breakthroughs, EPA Funding Cuts, and Austria’s Mega Battery
In today's Weekly Insights, we bring critical updates on sodium-ion batteries, the future of clean energy funding in the U.S., a major battery storage milestone in Austria, Panasonic's latest innovation in heat pump technology, and more.
We talk about Austria’s largest battery storage facility, featuring six Tesla Megapack 2XL systems. With a power output of 12 MW and a storage capacity of 24 MWh, the facility is strategically positioned near a wood gas generator and a solar farm in Fürstenfeld. Read further to hear all about Panasonic's new Aquarea Loop heat pump system, designed for residential and commercial applications.
We also highlight research findings showing the impact of state-of-charge and temperature on efficiency, proving that sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) experience significant variations in resistance and impedance depending on their charge levels. On the other hand, we explore a significant policy shift, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin has announced an immediate review and termination of $20 billion in clean energy grants.
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Markets & Policy
Administrator Zeldin said there will be “zero tolerance of any waste and abuse,” saying financial agreements under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund must be “instantly terminated.”
“We will review every penny that has gone out the door. The days of irresponsibly shoveling boat loads of cash to far-left, activist groups in the name of environmental justice and climate equity are over.” – Lee Zeldin - Environmental Protection Agency Administrator.
→ Read the complete article written by Ryan Kennedy
Watch Administrator Zeldin’s announcement here:
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced in a video that he seeks to instantly terminate roughly $20 billion in clean energy grant programs. The funds are allocated by the Biden Administration’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.
Distributed Storage
Researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and RWTH Aachen University in Germany have compared the electrical performance of high-energy sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) to that of a state-of-the-art high-energy lithium-ion battery (LIBs) with a lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) cathode and have found that the state-of-charge and temperature have a higher influence on the pulse resistance and the impedance of the SIBs than the LIBs.
→ Read the complete article written by Emiliano Bellini
Energy Storage
The storage facility featuring six Megapack 2XL systems from Tesla was built over a seven-month period in the vicinity of a wood gas generator and a solar farm. The project has a power output of 12 MW and storage capacity of 24 MWh.
“Our vision is to use intelligent battery storage systems to contribute to the energy transition throughout the DACH region and beyond.” – Matija Dolinar , Managing Director for the Germany-Austria-Switzerland (DACH) Region at NGen .
→ Read the complete article written by Jochen Siemer
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