China Builds the World's Largest Battery, a Building-Sized, 36-Megawatt-Hour Behemoth
China's New World-Beating Battery Facility Business Wire via Cleantechnica The largest battery in the world has arrived, and you likely won't be surprised where it landed: Hebei Province, China. The State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) and electric car maker BYD--the company that most recently made big headlines a few years back when Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway took a 10 percent stake--have teamed to create a massive battery array capable of storing 36 megawatt-hours of electricity. That's enough to power something like 12,000 homes for an hour during a total power failure, and enough for SGCC authorities to declare it the world's largest energy storage device. The $500 million facility is constructed of arrays of BYD batteries "larger than a football field," according to an SGCC press release, and they should increase the region's renewable energy efficiency by up to 10 percent. The array, located in Zhangbei, isn't just a stand-alone...