Re:Tesla's giant battery saved $40M during its first year, r...
by outworlder on Thursday December 06, 2018 @02:31PM
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> The 90 minutes capacity at full output is pretty much an inherent property of lithium battery tech, as I understand it.
Even if that is true, that only means you need to expand your battery capacity and split into multiple banks.
(The 90 minutes capacity at full output is pretty much an inherent property of lithium battery tech, as I understand it. There's a slight capacity vs power tradeoff which can be tweaked, but only within a relatively narrow band, and the maximum charging rate is if anything even less flexible than the discharge.)
Also, it looks like there's already a small-scale battery bank providing frequency stabilization using Samsung lithium ion batteries in West Texas: https://www.energy-storage.news/news/minimal-downtime-younic...