Nine technical results show that the lithium ion battery is expected to 'fight' as the most cheap power storage options

Lithium ion battery since the 1990 s was born, is increasingly becoming indispensable to human life. From welded to mobile phone every day, to fly in the sky the consumption level of unmanned aerial vehicle (uav), and then to run on the road of electric vehicles, lithium ion batteries are driving their energy hero. Needless to say, lithium ion battery for a period of time in the future, will also continue to thrive with outstanding performance in the electric power storage. However, new technology revolution blustery, once the new breakthrough energy storage technologies, the way a cheng bite gold, nor is it not possible.

, according to the U. S. joule magazine recently issued by imperial college, a new model to predict the results showed that in the coming decades, lithium ion battery in most application scenarios are possible power storage the cheapest option.

in the 1990 s, SONY of Japan's research and development personnel to lithium ion embedded carbon ( Petroleum coke and graphite) Formed in the anode, the successful development of lithium ion battery, at a time when traditional lithium-ion batteries with lithium or lithium alloy as the cathode. Lithium ion batteries as a secondary battery ( Rechargeable batteries) , mainly rely on lithium ions move between the positive and negative to work, to embed the lithium ion carbon, not only overcome the lithium highly active, and solves the security problems of the traditional lithium-ion batteries. The latest study lead author, scientists at imperial college oliver & middot; Schmidt believes that the future lithium ion batteries due to low cost and performance advantages, will occupy the advantage in the vast majority of the power system applications.

schmidt and his team set up a model, is used to analysis from 2015 to 2050, 9 kinds of electric power storage technology, including large batteries, pumped storage power station, etc. , cost change trend in 12 kinds of application scenarios.

the research results show that the most cheap electricity storage, is pumped storage power station, the use of power load is low excess electricity supremacy of pumping water reservoir, and then when needed, through the water to the reservoir to generate electricity. But according to the model predicts that over time, the cost of the pumped storage power station will not fall further, and will continue to reduce the cost of lithium-ion batteries.

the study said, since 2030, is expected to lithium ion batteries will be the cheapest power storage options, and this conclusion is suitable for most application scenarios. By 2050, the lithium ion battery cost advantage will be more obvious.