Big Money in Big Batteries
Apr. 10th, 2008 01:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
webfarmerLots of effort going into a variety of utility scaled battery technologies. This one is already looking like a cash-in opportunity.
Sodium-Sulfur Battery Powers NGK's Unique Wind Energy (Update1) - Bloomberg - 10 Apr 08
"Nagoya-based NGK's sodium-sulfur units, costing a reported 294 million yen ($2.9 million) per megawatt, store electricity for sale when demand is greatest and have 4.3 times the capacity of lead-acid devices. They may permit Japan Wind Development Co. to triple to 27 yen per kilowatt-hour what it charges at peak times for power from the turbines in Rokkasho, while the profit surges sixfold to as much as 13 yen, said Nobuyoshi Sato, an analyst at Ichiyoshi Securities Co. in Tokyo."
Sodium-Sulfur Battery Powers NGK's Unique Wind Energy (Update1) - Bloomberg - 10 Apr 08
"Nagoya-based NGK's sodium-sulfur units, costing a reported 294 million yen ($2.9 million) per megawatt, store electricity for sale when demand is greatest and have 4.3 times the capacity of lead-acid devices. They may permit Japan Wind Development Co. to triple to 27 yen per kilowatt-hour what it charges at peak times for power from the turbines in Rokkasho, while the profit surges sixfold to as much as 13 yen, said Nobuyoshi Sato, an analyst at Ichiyoshi Securities Co. in Tokyo."
