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storage battery

American  

noun

Electricity.
  1. a voltaic battery consisting of two or more storage cells.

  2. storage cell.


storage battery British  

noun

  1. another name (esp US) for accumulator

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of storage battery

First recorded in 1880–85

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But the economics improve if you add a storage battery to your system, which would let you draw less power from the utility grid during costly peak hours after the sun goes down.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2023

The company that Mr. Bitner co-founded in Munich in 2016, VoltStorage, found some success selling storage battery packs for solar power to homeowners in Europe.

From New York Times Apr. 18, 2022

Germany is the world’s top home storage battery market with 300,000 stationary batteries, a market currently led by Solarwatt rival Sonnen, which is part of Shell.

From Reuters Sep. 23, 2021

The hub also spun out multiple startups, he says, including one that is building an iron-based grid storage battery for an electric utility in Minnesota.

From Science Magazine Aug. 11, 2021

The analogy of the storage battery has been used: ATP represents the charged, ADP the discharged battery.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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