Sineng Electric's 50 MW/100 MWh sodium-ion battery energy storage system (BESS) project in China's Hubei province is the first phase of a larger plan that will eventually reach 100 MW/200 MWh. The initial capacity has already been connected to the grid and can power around 12,000 households for an entire day.
  • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Wikipedia has a decent (albeit somewhat outdated?) comparison with other battery types.

    Seems like sodium-ion batteries are somewhat cheaper, require more space and have lower usable cycles.

    • WrathUDidntQuiteMask@lemmy.worldEnglish
      25·
      3 months ago

      Probably also just aa important to note that sodium is much more readily available than lithium and doesn’t require geopolitical wars or slave-labor to acquire.

      • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        Agreed, that is an important point. That being said, it was raised in the article, a more “technical” comparison wasn’t provided.

    • girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      What’s interesting to me is the power to weight ratio. Sodium-Ion is at ~1000 W/Kg vs Li-Ion at ~175-425 W/Kg. EVs could maybe have less weight and cost in the future because of this.