Reliable Energy Storage Creates a More Sustainable Future (Download)
One of the more overstated idioms in the battery technology world is that batteries have come a long way since Alessandro Volta invented the voltaic pile in 1800. That’s accurate, of course, but mostly only since the broad commercialization of modern Li-ion chemistries (c. 1991, although there was some use of them as far back as the 1970s). A more analogous statement would be that battery management has come a long way.
Today’s battery energy storage systems (BESS) have evolved to take on power demands across a variety of use cases. These range from residential to commercial and industrial applications, infrastructures, even grid-scale systems with voltage demands as high as 1,500 V.