By passing ambitious legislation under U.S. President Joe Biden, Washington has begun investing heavily in its domestic battery industry. But even significant funding won’t get the job done if it isn’t directed at the right target: securing U.S. supremacy in next-generation technology, solid-state batteries.
Energy produced by such turbines can go to waste if it can't be stored. So, the island is turning to a new generation of batteries designed to stockpile massive amounts of energy — a critical step toward replacing power plants fueled by coal, gas and oil, which create a third of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Of the $30 billion that the U.S. government has committed to battery investments in the last two years through grants, loan guarantees, and tax incentives, more than 90 percent supports lithium-ion batteries.
To be sure, it is prudent for the United States to secure a limited supply of lithium-ion batteries, produced either domestically or by trusted partners abroad, to hedge against the risk of China cutting off exports of batteries or their components.
To some extent, producing lithium-ion batteries can help the United States leapfrog to next-generation technologies by ensuring a solid base of firms and workers with experience making batteries. Plus, many of the critical minerals used in lithium-ion batteries—such as lithium, nickel, and cobalt—are also critical for solid-state batteries.
Experts say the world will need to build many more batteries like these to stay on track to cut greenhouse emissions to zero by 2050. Over the next six years, utilities will have to build 35 times as many batteries as there are today to soak up all extra renewable energy that will come online, according to the International Energy Agency.
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Washington has already lost the race for current-generation batteries, but it can''t afford to squander the opportunity to win the next one.
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Washington has already lost the race for current-generation batteries, but it can''t afford to squander the opportunity to win the next one.
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So, the island is turning to a new generation of batteries designed to stockpile massive amounts of energy — a critical step toward replacing power plants fueled by coal, gas …
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They were building a battery — a vanadium redox flow battery — based on a design created by two dozen U.S. scientists at a government lab.