Energy Storage

VARTA AG opened its new lithium-ion cell factory at the Nördlingen site on Monday. The new building is an important step for VARTA in its growth strategy.

This premium article covers recent developments to silicon anodes and Li-metal/solid-state cell designs (i.e. cells utilising Li-metal as the anode and a solid-electrolyte in place of an electrolyte soaked separator), highlighting the key companies with automotive partnerships and providing a comparison between these two key technology classes.

The Mayor of London has launched England's first ever hydrogen double decker buses, marking another major step towards making the bus fleet zero-emission and cleaning up London's toxic air.

The concept behind Buoyancy Energy Storage is based on the well-established technology of pumped energy storage systems. The system typically consists of floating platforms placed close to offshore wind farms and uses an electric motor/generator for storing energy by lowering a compressed gas recipient, usually a series of balloons or tanks, in locations with deep sea floors and generating electricity by allowing the compressed gas recipient, to rise through the water.

Founded in 2016, Sakuu Corporation (formerly KeraCel) is a US additive manufacturing company based in San Jose, California. It offers multi-material and multi-method 3D printing platforms for high volume production. Customers can build complext active devices including solid-state battery, micro-fluidic devices, sensors by the platform.

Coal, oil, and gas power stations are turning out to be expensive write-offs for power companies, particularly facilities that are not very old. The new IDTechEx report, "Stationary Energy Storage Without Batteries: Grid, Microgrid, UPS, Trackside 2021-2041" has the answer - repurposing as energy storage.

Thursday 8 July 2021 - What are solid-state batteries?; Value propositions of solid-state batteries; Development trend of solid-state batteries; Overall market landscape; and Targeting markets

General Motors Co will increase its EV and AV investments from 2020 through 2025 to $35 billion, representing a 75 percent increase from its initial commitment announced prior to the pandemic.

The IDTechEx report "Charging Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles and Fleets 2021-2031" finds that the total number of electric vehicle charging outlets surpassed 1 million in 2020, with both China and Europe at or below the optimum 10 electric vehicles per charging outlet.

With an increasing number of players working in this field and some milestones being achieved, the solid-state battery market is expected to grow to $ 8 billion by 2031, according to IDTechEx's new report "Solid-State and Polymer Batteries 2021-2031: Technology, Forecasts, Players".

WACKER produces many materials used in the EV market. This interview with IDTechEx focussed on their silicone thermal interface materials for EV battery packs.

IDTechEx expects battery demand from maritime transport to grow rapidly for the next two decades. In this article, IDTechEx summarises five leading battery suppliers underpinning this transition.

Onslow, Australia's hydrocarbon-free experience shows that it is possible for communities to operate entirely on a solar-plus-stored-energy model.

GenCell Energy has successfully completed an advanced testing period of its innovative experimental GenCell A5 off-grid hydrogen power solution based on alkaline fuel cell technology, at the site of an active Emergency Communications System station outside Reykjavik, Iceland.

Rolls-Royce is developing energy storage systems that will enable aircraft to undertake zero emissions flights of over 100 miles on a single charge.

Functional Conductive Carbon for Liquid Type LIB and all Solid LIB

Thursday 1 July 2021 - Electric car range will increase fourfold over the next 20 years. For many leaders that will mean way over 1000 miles. Short-range cars will be treated like ones with no aircon or sound system.

Worldwide events and trends are causing a greater demand on data centers. A key area for data centers is thermal management, and regardless of the overall thermal strategy adopted, the considerations around thermal interface materials (TIMs) are crucial.

The project sponsored by the Maldivian Ministry of Environment and the Climate Investment Funds aims to substantially decrease carbon emissions as well as the costs of energy generation on these remote islands. The solar energy capacity installed is about 2.65 megawatts, and the capacity of the battery storage systems used is around 3.2 megawatt hours.

The resilience of global electric vehicle (EV) sales during 2020 provided some optimism as to the maturing state of the electric vehicle market. However, sales are still primarily underpinned by government policy, and improvements in cost and performance to Li-ion cells and packs, not to forget other aspects of the vehicle or grid infrastructure, are needed for widespread adoption.