Lithium-ion Batteries in Telecom Hybrid Power Systems

Hybrid Power Systems often combine multiple forms of energy storage and conversion devices such as batteries, internal combustion engine generators, photo voltaic solar arrays, wind turbines and fuel cells. Lithium-ion batteries offer some unique advantages in these applications in the form of high cycle life, charge efficiency and partial state of charge tolerance. This paper makes a comparison of Lithium-ion and lead-acid batteries in hybrid power applications in an example telecom hybrid power system.