Energy Storage

SFC Energy is a Germany-based fuel cell company, founded in 2000. SFC Energy manufactures and sells direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs) and proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs), targeting mobile and stationary power generation applications.

Innovation map for the rare-earth magnet recycling value chain: Players, markets, and key secondary sources.

Standard Lithium is a lithium development company focused on the development of lithium-brine properties in the United States using direct lithium extraction (DLE) technologies.

Alkegen develops and supplies specialty materials for the battery, filtration, catalysis, insulation, construction, and transportation industries. IDTechEx spoke with the company at The Battery Show Europe to learn about developments of its silicon anode technology.

While there has been strong growth in the stationary battery sector, electric vehicles remain the key driver behind the Li-ion market, and electric cars will be the largest market for Li-ion batteries over the next 10 years. Although there are some regional concerns over the rate of EV adoption in 2024, sales of electric vehicles grew rapidly in 2022 and 2023, and the medium-long-term outlook for EV adoption remains strong.

Jaguar Land Rover is a British automotive brand known for its luxury vehicles like the Range Rover. It has been bold in the past with its ambitions around electrification, promising an all-electric line-up for the Jaguar brand by 2025 and all-electric variants of each model in the Land Rover brand by 2030. With these deadlines fast encroaching, IDTechEx examines JLR's current position in this company profile.

Eramet is a French multi-national mining and metallurgy company that specializes in manganese, nickel, and mineral sands production. The company intends to expand its product offering to lithium, nickel/cobalt salts, and battery recycling. This profile will focus on its involvement in the lithium market.

Safion GmbH (Safion) is based in Germany and offers battery monitoring, testing, and analysis technologies. IDTechEx spoke with the company at The Battery Show Europe 2024 to learn about its EIS technology.

Thursday 29 August 2024 - Applications of BESS for grid-scale and residential battery storage markets; Overview of global Li-ion battery storage market growth, regional activity, market dynamics and trends; Comparisons across battery storage technologies, and discussion on the current and future position of Li-ion in the energy storage market; Trends observed and analysis on these trends, including cell chemistry, energy density, safety, and thermal management in Li-ion battery storage technologies; IDTechEx's outlook and conclusions on the global Li-ion BESS market.

The key to wider adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) will be lower-cost models with a more approachable price point. The most expensive component of an EV is the battery pack. As well as increasing the energy density and reducing the cost of the battery cells, another avenue to cost reduction is through more efficient packaging of the cells.

IDTechEx interviewed Christian Offermanns, Director at ACCURE Battery Intelligence, to discuss their use of AI for battery analytics.

Gotion (Guoxuan High-Tech) is a Chinese Li-ion cell and battery manufacturer. IDTechEx caught up with the company at The Battery Show Europe 2024.

Cornish Lithium is a UK-based mineral exploration and development company focused on lithium extraction from geothermal waters and hard rock in the district of Cornwall. IDTechEx spoke with the company at Direct Lithium Extraction Summit 2024. This profile will focus on its geothermal brine projects for lithium extraction.

Lithium is the lightest and smallest alkali metal in the periodic table and possesses a high electrochemical potential. These attributes make it attractive for use in batteries, as it can provide a high energy density per unit weight, with few viable substitutes. While lithium finds diverse applications in glass ceramics, lubricating greases, air treatment, and pharmaceuticals, batteries dominate its end-use segment.

Intelligent Energy (IE) is a UK-based proton exchange membrane fuel cell manufacturer, with a history dating back to 1988. The company targets both stationary and mobility applications for its fuel cells. IDTechEx spoke with Greg Harris, its Chief Commercial Officer, to find out more about its stationary fuel cell business.

On a global level, the decarbonization of heat energy methods is needed more and more as heating and cooling accounts for around 50% of energy consumption, with 30% being from industrial heating. 90% of these industrial heating processes include the use of fossil fuels, which leads to high global emissions from industrial processes alone. To meet net zero targets, things need to change.

IDTechEx's second article of two covering the Battery Recycling Conference & Expo 2024, covering second-life batteries and other topics in the battery circular economy including automated battery disassembly and B2B marketplaces for batteries.

IDTechEx interviewed StoreDot CEO Doron Myersdorf to discuss the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in battery development for their silicon-anode batteries for electric vehicles (EV).

Thursday 12 September 2024 - How Is Critical Material Recovery Unlocking a Multi-Billion Dollar Market? Introduction to critical materials and key application markets; Critical material sources and why secondary material streams are rapidly emerging; Critical material recovery technology trends and their application in secondary sources; Valuable lessons to learn from established critical platinum group metal and semiconductor recovery; IDTechEx's outlook and conclusions on emerging critical material recovery markets and key growth opportunities.

IDTechEx's first article of two covering the Battery Recycling Conference & Expo 2024 covering Li-ion battery recycling.