Concept
Nickel manganese cobalt
- ID
concept:nmc
- IRI
https://solarlattice.org/kb/concept/nmc
- Status
- active
- Also known as
- NMC, NiMnCo
- Category
- Storage
- Concept kind
- technology
NMC stands for nickel manganese cobalt, a lithium battery chemistry. Some equipment documentation writes it as NiMnCo. Battery training material puts NMC next to lithium iron phosphate (LFP) as one of the main chemical makeups of lithium batteries used in solar storage. Storage safety reports list it alongside other lithium chemistries, such as nickel cobalt aluminum (NCA) and lithium manganese oxide (LMO). Watch the abbreviation: in IEEE generating-unit definitions, NMC means net maximum capacity, not the battery chemistry.
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- sentence 2: support check: partial - The row shows NMC | NiMnCo, but nothing says it comes from equipment documentation.
- sentence 3: support check: partial - NMC and LFP are listed together as lithium battery chemical makeups, but the passage doesn't say 'main' or 'used in solar storage'.
- sentence 4: support check: partial - The abbreviation lists give NCA, LMO and NMC, but only u17 shows NMC next to NCA, and nothing says they are lithium chemistries or that storage safety reports list LMO with them.
- sentence 5: support check: partial - The passage gives NMC as 'Net maximum capacity' (reference 5.1), but doesn't mention IEEE or say it isn't the battery chemistry.
- sentence 4: review: partial - The DNV report's abbreviation tables list NCA, NMC and LMO, but they do not call them lithium chemistries or show that NMC is listed together with LMO.
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Claims
subclass_of
c1 verified · fact
Lithium-ion battery
Training material lists NMC as one of the chemical makeups of lithium batteries.
verified by: review-workflowverified on: 2026-10-24
related_to
c2 drafted · lead
Lithium iron phosphate
LFP is listed next to NMC as another lithium battery chemistry.
review note: support check: partial - LFP is listed alongside NMC as another chemistry, but a stated relation beyond co-listing is only implied.
Data