Energy Storage

Zn2H2 are an early stage company developing a hybrid battery/electrolyzer system for hydrogen production.

Unigrid is a startup developing sodium-ion batteries for stationary energy storage and e-mobility applications. It is a spin-off from research done at the University of California, San Diego. IDTechEx spoke to its CEO to find out more about its cell chemistry and commercialisation plans.

This premium article provides an introduction to metal-organic frameworks (MOF) and their applications.

Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) have made monumental progress in the passenger car market, becoming a standard drivetrain option. The success in cars is also overflowing into other vehicle segments, such as vans, trucks, buses, 2-wheelers, and more. However, despite some key proponents, fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) have had a much tougher time getting to significant adoption.

1s1 Energy is a PEM electrolyzer start-up based in the US and Portugal. The company has developed a new proton exchange membrane technology using boron-based compounds.

Innovation roadmap for future automotive technologies: opportunities from components and services.

Thursday 18 January 2024 - This webinar will cover the market progress, opportunities, and future predictions for FCEVs across several vehicle segments, including: Cars; Light commercial vehicles; Trucks; and Buses

Electric Hydrogen is a new PEM electrolyzer company based in the Boston and California Bay areas in the US. The company has developed proprietary PEM electrolyzer technology with its first system delivery expected in 2024.

This premium article discusses fuel cell electric trucks, including model availability, benchmarking, and costs.

This premium article discusses fuel cell light commercial vehicles, including sales, players, and benchmarking.

Echogen Power systems was founded in 2007 and develops waste heat recovery, electro-thermal energy storage (ETES), and high temperature heat pumps.

MGA Thermal is based in Australia and offers a thermal energy storage technology.

EnergyNest is based in Norway and offers a thermal energy storage technology.

Sumitomo SHI FW (SFW) was formed in 2017 and is based in Finland. The traditional business function of the company was to supply circulating fluidized bed boilers and bubbling fluidized bed boilers. However, the company is now also focusing on developing energy from waste, carbon capture and liquid air energy storage (LAES) technologies. This profile focuses on LAES.

Hydrostor was founded in 2010 and is based in Toronto, Canada. The company is developing and offering advanced compressed air energy storage (A-CAES) systems.

Kyoto Group was founded in 2016 and is based in Norway. The company offers a commercialized thermal energy storage technology, named Heatcube.

This premium article discusses fuel cell electric cars, including sales, players, benchmarking, and barriers.

Variable renewable energy (VRE) penetration is expected to continue increasing across the globe, and with this will come increasing variability and uncertainty in energy and electricity supply. Energy storage systems will be needed to dispatch energy over longer timeframes when energy from VRE sources is not available.

Quidnet Energy is based in Houston, US and is developing a geomechanical pumped hydro storage technology.