How to Use storage battery in a Sentence

storage battery

noun
  • One suggested boost is a giant storage battery to make up any shortfalls in power.
    — Maggie McKee, Discover Magazine, 23 Apr. 2012
  • Today, less than one-tenth of one percent of the world’s electricity spends any time in a storage battery.
    — Tom Randall, Bloomberg.com, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Antimony is used in lead for storage batteries as well as a flame retardant.
    — Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2019
  • But now, the fear of storage batteries catching on fire at a solar facility grip the 67-year-old.
    — Emily Foxhall, San Antonio Express-News, 14 May 2023
  • An auto generator powered by a storage battery could also be used to drive the propeller.
    — Popular Science, 9 Aug. 2020
  • But the roofs have yet to be produced beyond the research and development stage, and sales of the storage batteries are growing slowly.
    — Russ Mitchell, chicagotribune.com, 9 Jan. 2018
  • The company also sells storage batteries and solar roof panels.
    — Russ Mitchellstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2019
  • The off-grid home is powered by a wind turbine and an array of photovoltaic panels that feed energy into storage batteries.
    — Mark David, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Thomas Edison made countless tries to develop a storage battery, calling each failure a valuable insight into what would not work.
    — Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Revenue for both solar panels and storage batteries is down, as Tesla continues to shrink its solar business.
    — Russ Mitchell, latimes.com, 11 June 2019
  • This means that Castonguay (or, really, his algorithms) can program storage batteries to be charged a hundred per cent before a storm hits.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
  • But Jim’s car draws from a high-capacity energy storage battery charged by solar panels during daylight hours the day before.
    — John Barton, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Sales of generators, solar panels and storage batteries have increased.
    — Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2019
  • They’re used in everything from solar panels to energy storage batteries to EVs.
    — Stephanie Hanes, Christian Science Monitor, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Kingsfield Pond also has a full suite of smart home integrations, like Tesla storage batteries and a four-car garage behind electric gates.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The lab will also test storage batteries of the type utilities and industry increasingly use to use renewable sources and buffer demand spikes.
    — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 10 Aug. 2024
  • Another five are above 40% – cell phone and related equipment, electric storage batteries, electric water and space heaters, misc.
    — Ken Roberts, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Grid storage batteries would play an important role in that future plan because those applications are often very large, containing millions of lithium-ion cells.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Not including an inverter, cables, or storage batteries, one panel costs as little as €200.
    — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Sep. 2024
  • The types of goods whose supplies were pulled forward as companies stocked up include computers, cars, cell phones and electric storage batteries, according to the financial firm.
    — Anne Marie D. Lee, CBS News, 6 May 2025
  • The two caverns are deep, and when full would hold far more energy in the form of hydrogen than all the chemical storage batteries installed in the United States so far.
    — Henry Fountain Nina Riggio, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • As this technology becomes widespread, makers of electric vehicles and home storage batteries will be able to knock thousands of dollars off their prices over the next five to 10 years.
    — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2018
  • The prospect of integrating EV storage batteries into legacy grid systems also raised concerns about control.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Mar. 2023
  • But the company's solar power and storage battery business could be a major factor in the performance of Tesla shares, according to a new analyst note.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 19 Feb. 2020
  • Solar and long-duration storage batteries, especially, will only continue to grow.
    — Ella Nilsen, CNN Money, 7 May 2026
  • Each home comes equipped with solar panels and a whole-house storage battery, and is designed to be self-powered—meaning that it’s not connected to an aging, increasingly unreliable power grid.
    — Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Since the 1930s Walter had proposed that U-boats be powered with electric motors and that their energy come from storage batteries.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The most popular cathode material for grid storage batteries at the moment is lithium iron phosphate, or LFP.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Battery Deployments Tesla’s energy storage battery business, on the other hand, has never been better.
    — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas Morning News, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Energy storage batteries have a similar chemistry to automotive batteries and are used to power facilities such as data centers.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, Freep.com, 11 Dec. 2025

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