Energy Storage

Brill Power, an Oxford University spin-out company, announced the conclusion of its Series A round raising $10.5m today to support its mission to make batteries smarter, cleaner, safer and longer-lasting as a critical element of the shift to zero emissions energy. The funding will support team growth and new product development to expand presence in both static energy storage and the automotive sectors.

Corvus Energy is a leading supplier of battery systems for the commercial maritime sector. IDTechEx caught up with the company to discuss its plans to enter the fuel cell marine market.

This premium article explores Battery Technology Innovation 2022, an event consisting of a series of talks presented online largely by companies that produce materials or components for electric vehicle batteries. This article will cover presentations from companies including 3M, Sika, Graco, Amphenol Advanced Sensors, and more.

S4 Energy, a Netherlands-based energy storage specialist, is using ABB regenerative drives and process performance motors to power its KINEXT energy-storage flywheels, developed to stabilize Europe's electricity grids.

The vast majority of new trucks sold today are powered by diesel engines, but like other on-road vehicle segments, this is set to change.

Cheap and abundant, sodium is a prime promising candidate for new battery technology. But limited performance of sodium-ion batteries has hindered their large-scale applications. Now, a research team has developed a sodium-ion battery with greatly extended longevity in laboratory tests. An ingenious shift in the ingredients that make up the liquid core of the battery prevents the performance issues that have bedeviled sodium-based batteries.

The company offer a wide portfolio of products for energy storage and generation, including portable power stations (PPS), solar generators, solar panels, power banks, chargers, and accessories. They are continuously innovating and releasing new products with new designs, capacities, and portability options. Their brand is catered toward outdoor lifestyle consumers. One of their products they offer, a PPS, is a rechargeable battery that is large enough to provide backup power to your home, appliances, or for outdoor activities. These are typically larger than power banks but of lesser capacity to the batteries you would find in a purely residential setting. Their PPS products use NMC cathodes.

Mango Power focus on developing home power supply solutions, portable power devices, and further accessories. Their mission is to bring smart green energy products into every home and help form a zero carbon emission future. They launched their first product, the Mango Power Union, in 2021, which features a detachable design to merge home and portable power solutions. This acts as a portable power station (PPS). A PPS is a rechargeable battery that is large enough to provide backup power to your home, appliances, or for outdoor activities. These are typically larger than power banks but of lesser capacity to the batteries one would find in a purely residential setting. Their PPS product uses LFP cathodes and claims to be electric vehicle (EV) class.

The technology group Wärtsilä is delivering a 500-megawatt / 2-gigawatt hour portfolio of energy storage systems to clean energy developer and operator Clearway Energy Group. The contracts cover five sites located in Hawaii and California and include one of the world's largest ever solar-plus-storage project portfolios. The combination of energy storage and solar photovoltaic resources will provide essential grid reliability to balance an increasing mix of renewable generation.

What if you could power the smart thermostats, speakers and lights in your home with a kitchen countertop? Stones, such as marble and granite, are natural, eco-friendly materials that many people building or renovating houses already use. Now, in a step toward integrating energy storage with these materials, researchers have fabricated microsupercapacitors onto the surface of stone tiles.

Thermal Management Expo, is the only free-to-attend exhibition and conference dedicated to the thermal management sector, taking place on August 30-31 at the Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Volkswagen Group broke the ground for its first cell factory in Salzgitter. Production will start in 2025. With immediate effect, responsibility for global battery business is to be held by the newly created company "PowerCo". In addition to cell production, the new company will be responsible for activities along the entire battery value chain.

Watts Battery offer a modular portable power station (PPS) product, which can be integrated with solar energy/panels. This is the only product they offer as they are a young company. A PPS is a rechargeable battery that is large enough to provide backup power to your home, appliances, or for outdoor activities. These are typically larger than power banks but of lesser capacity to the batteries one would find in a purely residential setting. Their PPS product uses NMC cathodes.

Ceylon Graphene Technologies are a Sri Lankan company producing graphene oxide (GO) and reduced graphene oxide (rGO). IDTechEx spoke with Manju Gunawardana (CEO).

Elywhere makes mobile, battery-powered fast charging stations. Its solution is ideal for places where EV charging demand is high and spare grid capacity to install chargers is low. Its solution is portable and offers high power charging using on-board battery storage. IDTechEx spoke to its CEO, Kenneth Hauge, at EVS35 in Oslo.

ULVAC-PHI integrates every surface analysis technology which is essential for battery research and development into an advanced automated platform to contribute to battery performance and longevity through thin film and interface characterizations.

Fremo are a small start-up company operating in the portable power station (PPS) space. They have an ongoing kickstarter campaign for a PPS product. A PPS is a rechargeable battery that is large enough to provide backup power to your home, appliances, or for outdoor activities. These are typically larger than power banks, but of lesser capacity to the batteries one would find in a purely residential setting. Their PPS product uses LFP cathodes.

Researchers have developed a new hydrogen fuel cell which is not only the world's most durable1 to date, but is also more cost-effective, paving way for a wider application of green energy in the pursuit of a carbon neutral world.

Polar Night Energy and Vatajankoski, an energy utility based in Western Finland, have together constructed a sand-based thermal energy storage. It is the world's first commercial solution to store electricity in the sand as heat to be used in a district heating network.

This premium article focuses on solid-state batteries, in particular exploring a selection of the latest progress in solid-state batteries, controversial opinions, and the current global environment.