About this episode

The episode discusses CATL's new sodium ion battery technology and its implications for energy storage systems.

CATL unveiled its TENER Sodium energy storage system at Intersolar Europe in Munich, rated for 15,000 cycles to 70 percent state of health at room temperature. CATL frames that as a 25 to 30 year service life, and it takes only 34 modules to stand up a one gigawatt-hour site. That single specification changes how commercial storage professionals price, propose, and finance battery projects. Tim Montague and John Weaver dig into what it means, alongside Illinois growing from about 80 megawatts...

People in this episode

Hosts: Tim Montague, John Weaver

Topics covered

• sodium ion battery
• energy storage
• commercial storage
• battery technology
• renewable energy

Keywords

• CATL
• sodium ion battery
• energy storage
• TENER
• Intersolar Europe
• commercial storage
• battery projects

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CATL

Products: TENER Sodium energy storage system

Places: Intersolar Europe, Munich, Illinois

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