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For energy storage systems, where large quantities of batteries are operating close together and often without supervision, this is a key benefit of the technology.",{"type":570,"attrs":713,"content":714},{"textAlign":49},[715],{"text":716,"type":575},"One reason for the enhanced safety is that the current collector on which active material is coated is the aluminium on both the anode and cathode sides of a cell. In a lithium ion cell, the anode is coated onto copper and the cathode onto aluminium.",{"type":570,"attrs":718,"content":719},{"textAlign":49},[720],{"text":721,"type":575},"The consequence of this is that a lithium ion battery cannot be fully discharged without dissolving some of the copper. Sodium ion batteries, on the other hand, can be fully discharged without damaging the cell.",{"type":570,"attrs":723,"content":724},{"textAlign":49},[725],{"text":726,"type":575},"“Unlike lithium ion, which has to be transported as dangerous goods because they have to be in a partially charged state to retain the battery integrity at all times, sodium cells can be completely discharged to zero volts,” Simons said.",{"type":570,"attrs":728,"content":729},{"textAlign":49},[730],{"text":731,"type":575},"AMTE Power, this month became the first European to receive a United Nations 38.3 testing certificate for a sodium ion battery cell, meaning their sodium ion cell is approved for safe transport across the globe.",{"type":570,"attrs":733,"content":734},{"textAlign":49},[735,737,742],{"text":736,"type":575},"Faradion noted in a paper published in the journal ",{"text":738,"type":575,"marks":739},"Energy Materials Advances",[740],{"type":741},"italic",{"text":743,"type":575}," that another safety advantage of sodium ion being transported at zero state-of-charge is that it is inherently safer for engineers to install a battery in this state compared to installing a lithium ion battery which would have to be at least 30% charged.",{"type":570,"attrs":745,"content":746},{"textAlign":49},[747],{"text":748,"type":575},"Simons explained that sodium ion batteries are also more thermally stable than lithium ion batteries, allowing them to access markets where safe low- and high-temperature performance is needed for grid and off-grid energy storage.","Sodium ion battery producers are expanding production to target the energy storage market, betting on the battery chemistry’s lower costs and greater safety to win customers. Of the sodium ion gigafactories Benchmark has information of the end market for, two-thirds are targeting ESS markets. Energy storage is forecast by Rho Motion to account for 40% […]",[751],{"slug":558,"name":559,"content":752},{"job_title":561,"image":753,"bio":564,"linkedin":565},{"filename":563},"\u003C!--#storyblok#{\"name\": \"article\", \"space\": \"\", \"uid\": \"c37da677-6183-4796-bc66-f5b5a1261224\", \"id\": \"\"}-->","article",[757,760],{"slug":758,"name":759},"battery-technology","Battery Technology",{"slug":761,"name":762},"ess","ESS","private",{"id":49,"alt":635,"name":635,"focus":635,"title":635,"source":635,"filename":765,"copyright":635,"fieldtype":766,"meta_data":767,"is_external_url":51},"https://a.storyblok.com/f/287943243085208/d94b2b1dd4/bm-sodium-ion-amte.jpg","asset",{"alt":635,"title":635,"source":635,"copyright":635},"May 24, 2023","24th May 2023",[],[],1780670074847]