Energy Storage

This premium article explores materials informatics (MI) with computational materials science.

This premium article provides an assessment of fuels (hydrogen, natural gas, methane, ammonia, e-fuels) for solid oxide fuel cells including benchmarking of volumetric energy density, carbon emissions, and prevalence in commercial SOFCs.

Enovate Motors showcased its first electric vehicle SUV-ME7 and ME-S equipped with solid-state batteries at 2019 Auto Shanghai in early 2019.

Turquoise hydrogen is a relatively new term that refers to hydrogen created by methane pyrolysis. The process uses heat generated by electricity to decompose methane molecules into hydrogen and solid carbon. This premium article discusses the technology options for methane pyrolysis, presents the key players using these technologies, and provides a background into the solid carbon markets.

Cymbet is a privately held company, founded in 2000, and is working on thin-film battery technology, embedded energy, backup power, and energy harvesting power management solutions for microelectronic systems.

Catalysts are critical for the performance of proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells. As the trend towards zero-emission vehicles continues, fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) are projected to grow accordingly as a market sector.

Established in 1987 and getting involved in the Li-ion business in 1998, Coslight is a Chinese company mainly focusing on lithium-ion, lithium polymer, and lead acid batteries and EV, HEV, and backup power system businesses.

CEA Tech has developed a LiPON-based solid-state micro-battery with sub-100 µm overall thickness, with the electrolyte around 20 µm.

Battery demand for stationary energy storage is set to grow in line with an increasing number of renewable energy resources being added to electricity grids globally, alongside pressure from governments and states to reach targets pertaining to renewable energy generation and energy storage.

Aceleron Energy is an award-winning clean technology company which designs and manufactures batteries for residential and microgrid applications with an innovative compression design to promote easier serviceability and maintenance, thus promoting circular economy principles. The company is based in Birmingham, UK.

Every manufacturer has its own way of putting together an electric vehicle (EV) battery pack, and every manufacturer must consider the fire safety of its batteries

This profile shows CATL's battery development plan; the company mainly focuses on sulphide-based systems and polymer solid state electrolytes.

Ensurge Micropower produces high energy density solid-state lithium-ion micro-batteries, utilizing its roll-to-roll manufacturing line. It is targeting applications such as wearable electronics and connected sensors.

BrightVolt's core technology is a coatable Polymer Matrix Electrolyte (PME).

B2U Storage Solutions (B2U) builds and deploys its own large-scale energy storage systems (ESS) using second life EV batteries and is based in Santa Monica, California (CA), US.

Wednesday 7 December 2022 - This webinar will introduce some of IDTechEx's research into the following areas: The Li-ion market; Advanced battery technologies; Solid-state batteries; Stationary energy storage; and Green and blue hydrogen

Blue Solutions is a subsidiary of Bolloré Group. Bolloré Group was founded in 1822 as a paper manufacturer and its activities are diversified in transportation, logistics, energy distribution & storage, media and communications.

While it is possible to manage potential shortages of various Li-ion battery materials through chemistry choices, any growth in Li-ion demand comes with growth in demand for lithium. This is problematic given the potential for lithium shortages or supply crunches from the mid-late 2020s. But there are ways to minimise lithium intensity, consumption and demand through different technologies and strategies. This premium article will introduce and analyse the impact of different technologies and scenarios on total lithium demand.

24M, founded in 2010, has developed a semisolid lithium-ion battery cell.

Ampcera Inc. is a U.S.-based company in the development and commercialisation of solid-state electrolyte materials for high performance lithium batteries and their upstream & downstream industries.