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PostOctober 30, 2018

Longer lasting storage needs cheaper chemistries, MIT prof tells CAISO symposium

Grid scale energy storage is on the cusp of rapid growth, but "to get to long duration storage, we need to have the capital costs 10 times lower than they are for lithium ion than they are today," Yet-Ming Chiang, Kyocera professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology said at the conference.

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by MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering - DMSE
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Batteries, Storage & Transmission

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