National Laboratory
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What is a Battery?
Supply Chain Terminology
Battery Technology/Chemistry
100

This national lab was heavily featured in the 2023 movie "Oppenheimer".

What is Los Alamos National Laboratory?

100

This company is well known for its CEO that is also the co-founder of Paypal.

What is Tesla?

100
Measure of the amount of energy put into an energy storage system compared to the amount of energy retrieved from it.

What is round trip efficiency?

100

The economic law that dictates the price of a resource, service, or product. 

What is 'Supply and Demand'?

100

This battery chemistry is characterized by its high round trip efficiency, risk of thermal runaway, high energy density, and dominance in consumer electronics.

What is lithium-ion?

200

This national lab has developed energy system optimization software such as "SAM" and "REopt" and is also part of the ROVI initiative.

What is National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)?

200

This company rebranded from Zinc8 following a strategic shift in corporate management, underlining a fresh vision and a comprehensive go-forward plan.

What is Abound Energy?

200

The rate at which a battery is charged or discharged at.

What is c-rate?

200

An act of choosing between manufacturing a product in-house or purchasing it from an external supplier

What is make or buy?

200

The chemistry found in eos' Z3 battery.

What is zinc-bromine?

300

This laboratory operates closely with a prestigious Californian university and is characterized by their research on elementary particle physics, high-energy accelerators and elementary particle detectors.  

What is SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) National Accelerator Laboratory?

300

This company is characterized by its use of iron-air electrochemical cells and is targeting the multiday energy storage market.

What is Form Energy?

300

Current * Voltage.

What is Power?

300

A strategic planning technique companies use to identify 'strengths', 'weaknesses', 'opportunities', and 'threats' to their firm.

What is SWOT analysis?

300

ESS, CellCube, Invinity, Enlighten, and Redflow all share a similar technological/electrochemical trait with their energy storage system.

What is a redox flow battery?

400

This national laboratory along with Newlab formed the “High-capacity long Duration Energy storage Zinc battery consortium" (HiDEZ) for DE-FOA-0003020 that e-Zinc is part of.

What is Sandia National Laboratory?

400

Bill Gates has backed this Massachusetts based company with their Liquid Metal technology.

What is Ambri?

400

The term used to describe the maximum and minimum state of charge a battery can achieve.

What is depth of discharge?

400

An example of this manufacturing production process would be e-Zinc's pilot deployment in Woodstock.   

What is Engineer-to-Order?

400

According to DOE's Technology Strategy Assessment. For a 100MW, 10 Hour battery system, this chemistry has the shortest cycle life of 1370.

What is lead-acid?

500

This national laboratory is the only government owned AND government operated lab.

What is National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL).

500

This company was founded by a former NASA employee and features a carbon-oxygen battery.

What is Noon Energy?

500

The energy that is loss when an energy storage system is on standby mode.

What is parasitic loss?

500

This educational game was developed by Jay Wright Forrester that simulates the typical coordination problems of a supply chain. 

What is the 'beer game'?

500

This technology passively captures high-energy photons from a white-hot heat source and converts them into electricity.

What is Thermal Photovoltaic (TPV) cell?

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