Solar power and household batteries

[harryopal1]

A rather concerning story with the ABC today with the collapse of an Australian battery manufacturer. Not just that the company is going bankrupt but that a major factor is that many of the very costly batteries it has been installing have failed very early on. I suppose as with cars, there are good cars and unreliable cars and so with batteries but a disconcerting development.

Collapse of Australian battery manufacturer leaves jaded customers with broken goods

Redflow had political backing and a soaring ambition to sell energy storage to the world, but its $10,000 batteries regularly failed within months of installation leaving customers out of pocket.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Balifrog]

Not only in Australia....
Those boys went bankrupt before even building a battery....

Northvolt CEO resigns after EV battery maker files for bankruptcy protection

Peter Carlsson says $1bn to $1.2bn needed to restore business touted as potential European rival to Asian firms

www.theguardian.com

And France has also reduced a planned "giga factory" recently.

 

[Wisnu]

Redflow ZBM2 - USD 800 / KWH, here you can get made in China for Rp. 3M/kwh - not the cheapest.