Business and Technology Insight Forums Tokyo 2016

Half-day Insight Forum 3

Emerging Energy Storage Technologies and Markets: From Advanced and Post Lithium-ion batteries to Supercapacitors and Fuel Cells

This session will give you the full story of emerging technologies and market segments of the energy storage sector for large applications such as electric vehicles, residential and grid energy storage.

This session is concerned with energy stored electrochemically, with particular emphasis on:

»overview of established and emerging energy storage use markets: market forecast outlook 2016-2026
»advanced and post lithium-ion technologies overview: silicon anodes, solid state, lithium sulphur, lithium capacitors, sodium ion, magnesium and lithium air.
»competing energy storage technologies such as supercapacitors and fuel cells.

This session will provide a close look at the technologies, how they may improve over the coming ten years and what that makes possible in market growth. We will place particular attention to the role of emerging niche markets as first adoption segments for new energy storage technologies. Will silicon anodes replace graphite and even the later titanium dioxide ones? Will sulphur batteries reach the market first than solid state batteries? Which chemistries are being used by mainstream automotive sector and which by niche emerging sectors such as electric aircrafts and wearable electronics? How supercapacitors and fuel cells are interacting with batteries?

The energy storage industry is at a critical point. On the one hand new energy storage technologies themselves are emerging. Lithium-ion batteries are the best energy storage technology we have ever seen, but unfortunately they cannot achieve the required transformative scale of improvement required. Post lithium-ion batteries is a group of technologies that has attracted recent attention based on the promise of higher energy density and/or lower cost. This group of technologies includes silicon anode batteries, sulphur batteries, solid state batteries, lithium air, magnesium-ion batteries, sodium-ion batteries and hybrid supercapacitors. Some of these technologies are not new and some of them have reached the level of maturity required for commercialization.

On the other hand the whole market is expanding through the emergence of new application segments such as residential energy storage and niche electric vehicles not just cars. Electric vehicles will become the largest market for lithium-ion batteries so IDTechEx looks at market penetration of over 45 categories of hybrid and pure electric vehicle by land, water and air. This is a level of detail only IDTechEx can provide. We will provide relevant insights from new segments such as grid and residential energy storage.

We will look how alternative energy storage technologies to batteries are developing. This is the case of supercapacitors and fuel cells technologies.

Supercapacitors have taken some market share from lithium-ion batteries despite one hundredth of the energy density. That gap will reduce and it may increase market share disproportionately due to their superior safety, life, reliability and so on. Fuel cells have reached maturity as a technology. Nevertheless it is not in traditional energy storage market that they will achieve larger penetration in the following years but in emerging segments.

We will finally discuss whether there is room for all of these technologies in the traditional and emerging markets. We will elaborate how different technologies may substitute each other or complement each other in different markets.

All Insight Forums will be conducted in English

Please see registration form for special forum packages. If your colleagues would like to attend, company discounts are available - please contact Corinne Jennings, c.jennings@IDTechEx.com for details.