How to Use storage battery in a Sentence

storage battery

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  • The result was the world’s first electric storage battery.
    — John Fialka, Scientific American, 12 May 2020
  • Today, less than one-tenth of one percent of the world’s electricity spends any time in a storage battery.
    — Tom Randall, Bloomberg.com, 13 Sep. 2017
  • But now, the fear of storage batteries catching on fire at a solar facility grip the 67-year-old.
    — Emily Foxhall, San Antonio Express-News, 14 May 2023
  • But the roofs have yet to be produced beyond the research and development stage, and sales of the storage batteries are growing slowly.
    — Russ Mitchell, chicagotribune.com, 9 Jan. 2018
  • One suggested boost is a giant storage battery to make up any shortfalls in power.
    — Maggie McKee, Discover Magazine, 23 Apr. 2012
  • Since the 1930s Walter had proposed that U-boats be powered with electric motors and that their energy come from storage batteries.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Antimony is used in lead for storage batteries as well as a flame retardant.
    — Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Kingsfield Pond also has a full suite of smart home integrations, like Tesla storage batteries and a four-car garage behind electric gates.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 7 Aug. 2023
  • An auto generator powered by a storage battery could also be used to drive the propeller.
    — Popular Science, 9 Aug. 2020
  • As this technology becomes widespread, makers of electric vehicles and home storage batteries will be able to knock thousands of dollars off their prices over the next five to 10 years.
    — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2018
  • But Jim’s car draws from a high-capacity energy storage battery charged by solar panels during daylight hours the day before.
    — John Barton, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
  • But the company's solar power and storage battery business could be a major factor in the performance of Tesla shares, according to a new analyst note.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 19 Feb. 2020
  • Revenue for both solar panels and storage batteries is down, as Tesla continues to shrink its solar business.
    — Russ Mitchell, latimes.com, 11 June 2019
  • The company also sells storage batteries and solar roof panels.
    — Russ Mitchellstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Each home comes equipped with solar panels and a whole-house storage battery, and is designed to be self-powered—meaning that it’s not connected to an aging, increasingly unreliable power grid.
    — Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine, 21 Jan. 2023
  • The prospect of integrating EV storage batteries into legacy grid systems also raised concerns about control.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Tesla in particular has always been big on pushing green energy, and is using its stand at the LA Auto Show to showcase its solar panels and home energy storage batteries as well as its electric cars.
    — Jack Stewart, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2017
  • The bills would restrict the sale, lease or rental of powered mobility devices and storage batteries that fail to meet safety standards set by Underwriters Laboratories.
    — Ash-Har Quraishi, Aparna Zalani, Ryan Beard, CBS News, 15 Aug. 2023
  • One possible answer is the rapid deployment of industrial-scale stationary storage batteries the likes of which Tesla is currently offering with the Megapack.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Sales of generators, solar panels and storage batteries have increased.
    — Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2019
  • This year, China is aiming to become the first Winter Olympics to achieve carbon neutrality, in a technological showcase of wind and solar energy, hydrogen fuel cell transport, and the world’s largest hydro energy storage battery.
    — Aurora Almendral, Quartz, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Most recently Ecocash has struggled to maintain the mobile money system working round the clock as the country has been hit with electricity shortages which have forced it to consider options including Tesla Powerwall storage batteries.
    — Farai Shawn Matiashe, Quartz Africa, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Federal and local officials say all hospitals now have adequate generators and, in some cases, solar power and energy storage batteries to kick in during a power loss.
    — Frances Robles, New York Times, 12 July 2018
  • The 100-acre reservation's microgrid has solar panels, storage batteries and distribution lines.
    — Arlene Martinez, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2020
  • Duke Energy, which is planning on pumping $6 billion into new solar panels, storage batteries, and grid infrastructure, could also conceivably build addition solar plants after the first one is complete.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Byrne worked with Swell Energy, a storage energy provider that helps design at-home microgrids using various company products, to build his solar power system using Sunpower solar panels and a Tesla storage battery.
    — NBC News, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The Casa Pueblo environmental group had equipped its Adjuntas headquarters with solar panels and storage batteries – a model of green self-sufficiency that inspired the organization to launch a pioneering community-run microgrid in the town.
    — Anastasia Moloney, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Slutzky and other proponents of EV power have been pressing for a more favorable regulatory environment, including access to the subsidies that states such as California offer to users of stationary storage batteries.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Mar. 2023

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