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NAS Battery Demonstration at American Electric Power

Feb. 28, 2007

U.S. Department of Energy, Sandia National Laboratories

Benjamin L. Norris, Jeff Newmiller, Georgianne Peek

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The first U.S. demonstration of the sodium/sulfur (Na/S) battery technology was launched in August 2002 when a prototype battery energy storage system (BESS) was installed at a commercial office building in Gahanna, Ohio.

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