The Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium (ALABC) is aiming to prove that lead-acid can compete with lithium-ion in a renewable energy microgrid application at a US university.
Missouri University of Science and Technology’s (Missouri S&T) and ALABC have teamed up for the solar microgrid project that replaces the existing lithium-ion battery with lead-acid.
The project, at the EcoVillage microgrid on the university campus in Rolla, Missouri, will start this October with ALABC currently looking for a lead-acid battery supplier for the project.
The university project is in alliance with ALABC’s three-year energy storage technical communications program, which aims to highlight the benefits of using lead batteries.
The future performance of lead-acid battery in this project will be shared with more than 70 ALABC’s member companies around the world and provide further research directions to ALABC R&D.