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Unlike its big competitors, the ZCell does not use lithium
It stores enough energy to keep most homes running for a day or two
Concerns are being raised about how to dispose of dead home storage batteries
About 8,000 tonnes of lithium-ion batteries are thrown away every year and in the next 20 years that is expected to jump to 150,000 tonnes, partly due to a rise in the use of big home solar batteries, according to the Australian Battery Recycling Initiative.
Brisbane company Redflow says it has developed the ZCell battery that, unlike its competitors, does not use lithium and is more recyclable than its competitors.
"The active parts are plastic, aluminium and steel, the fluid electrolyte can be removed and cleaned and put in the next battery so the whole thing is very recyclable," executive chairman Simon Hackett said.The battery is designed to store 10kWh of electricity — enough to keep most homes running for a day or two.
"It's a very effective high capacity battery. It's about the size of a bar-fridge on its side and it goes outside an external wall of your house."
With the end of generous government rebates for power being fed back into grid, the demand for home batteries has soared.
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Some 1.5 million homes have solar panels installed and, because of that, international heavyweights like LG and Enphase have launched various battery models in Australia this year.
In NSW, generous premiums paid to homeowners for exporting their solar electricity to the grid are set to expire at the end of the year.
More than 146,000 households are about to see their feed-in tariff drop from as high as 60c/kWh to just under 5c/kWh.
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