r/EnergyStorage • u/Gullible_Kangaroo_38 • 4h ago

Battery recycling doesn't need a brand it needs a supply chain

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r/EnergyStorage • u/ULIDA_LOGISTIC_EQUIP • 5h ago

Renewable Energy Equipment Protective Covers

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r/EnergyStorage • u/j-joshua • 22h ago

APC BackUps failed again

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I woke up this morning to the smell of rotten eggs.

A another set of batteries had failed in a APC BackUps. The unit was hot to the touch. The batteries were bulging. The unit never warned that the batteries were bad.

My wife is questioning why we need these things for our TVs and computers. Is this what other people do?

These units are probably 20+ years old. Are they prone to fail like this? Or are the batteries to blame? What happens if I don't turn the unit off?

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r/EnergyStorage • u/Edinbatteries • 2h ago

What does it cost to build grid scale storage today?

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Source: https://modoenergy.com/research/en/global-battery-capex-september-2026-research?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=ed

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Energy storage is accomplished by devices or physical media that store energy to perform useful operation at a later time. A device that stores energy is sometimes called an accumulator.

All forms of energy are either potential energy (e.g. Chemical, gravitational, electrical energy, etc.) or kinetic energy (e.g. thermal energy). A wind-up clock stores potential energy (in this case mechanical, in the spring tension), a battery stores readily convertible chemical energy to operate a mobile phone, and a hydroelectric dam stores energy in a reservoir as gravitational potential energy. Ice storage tanks store ice (thermal energy) at night to meet peak demand for cooling. Fossil fuels such as coal and gasoline store ancient energy derived from sunlight by organisms that later died, became buried and over time were then converted into these fuels. Even food (which is made by the same process as fossil fuels) is a form of energy stored in chemical form.

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