Energy Storage

Carbon dioxide is the main greenhouse gas warming Earth and is emitted in large quantities in the flue gas from industrial and power plants. A new method for removing CO2 from these flue gases involves piping the emissions through a porous material based on the chemical melamine. DETA, a chemical bound inside the porous melamine, grabs CO2 and removes it from the gas, with nitrogen vented to the atmosphere.

Senec GmbH offers a coordinated ecosystem of solar systems, power storage, cloud solutions, and wallboxes.

With a growing residential battery storage market, customers are looking to use this technology to take advantage of price arbitrage, become more energy independent, and improve their energy security. This premium article covers a brief view of the residential battery storage market, including company and battery chemistry market shares, trends, and several SWOT analyses of companies and their technologies.

Thursday 11 August 2022 - The 2021 sales of zero-emission trucks and the addressable market; What zero-emission trucks need to deliver for commercial rollout; Key enabling technologies: batteries/motors/charging; The role of battery and fuel cell trucks; IDTechEx's outlook for zero-emission truck deployment

Sungrow operates in residential, commercial, and utility energy storage sectors, as well as the electric vehicle (EV) charging sector. They sell photovoltaic (PV) systems, floating PV systems, EV chargers, batteries, and solar inverters.

2022 continues to present great challenges for electric vehicle makers, but despite these challenges electric vehicle markets have continued to grow. However, in an era of shortages, disruption is inevitable. IDTechEx believes improvements to drive cycle efficiency and vehicle design, minimizing battery capacity and other material requirements per vehicle, must come to the forefront.

PXiSE Energy Solutions announces that the PXiSE Renewable Power Plant Controller meets the latest performance requirements for using energy storage resources to provide grid support and ancillary services in Texas.

BSL Battery operates in China and develops and sells batteries into the solar/residential and low speed vehicle markets.

With lithium prices over five times higher than they were a year ago, researchers have developed a material for sodium-ion batteries, which offer an alternative to the increasingly expensive lithium-ion tech. The new material is a powder of sodium-vanadium phosphate fluoride with a particular crystal structure. Used in the battery cathode, it provides record-high energy storage capacity, eliminating one of the bottlenecks of the emerging sodium-ion technology.

Von Roll is headquartered in Switzerland and focuses on products and systems for electrical power generation, power transmission, and industrial applications. The electric vehicle (EV) market provides a new opportunity for its materials in electric motors, batteries, sensors, and more. The interview with Von Roll focused on its impregnation and potting resins for EVs.

BYD Energy, a subsidiary of BYD, are a global supplier of residential, commercial, and industrial batteries.

A team of researchers have developed a water-activated disposable paper battery. The researchers suggest that it could be used to power a wide range of low-power, single-use disposable electronics - such as smart labels for tracking objects, environmental sensors and medical diagnostic devices - and minimize their environmental impact.

GenCell Energy, provider of hydrogen and ammonia to power fuel cell solutions, is entering a strategic partnership with the ONEC Group, a mid-sized Canadian project delivery company. Together the two companies aim to grow the presence of GenCell's backup and off-grid power solutions across North America.

Infineon Technologies AG and Delta Electronics have developed a three-in-one-system that integrates solar, energy storage and charging of electric vehicles. Thanks to bidirectional inverters, the electric car is not only charged, but can also be used as a buffer storage or as household emergency backup power. More and more cars are equipped for this. Looking ahead, bidirectional energy flows coulf also be used to realize new vehicle-to-home and vehicle-to-grid solutions.

UBS Asset Management today announced the acquisition of five standalone, development-stage energy storage projects in Texas from Black Mountain Energy Storage. This marks an important milestone following the establishment of the Energy Storage Infrastructure team in 2021, adding significant volume to the development pipeline.

Posco Chemical, a subsidiary of Posco Holdings, are a global supplier of Li-ion anodes and cathodes.

To date, the commercialization of graphene has been more of a "material push" rather than a "market pull"; a solution looking for a problem. In this first phase, there were numerous technical and commercial barriers to overcome, which in materials science does not happen overnight. IDTechEx believes that this is changing, with graphene entering the next stage, the growth phase, of its commercial journey.

Wireless charging roads equipped with energy storage systems are promising electric vehicle solutions by virtue of their strong advantages in time saving and reduced pressure on the existing power infrastructure.

Enerpoly AB are a Swedish company developing an aqueous Zn-ion battery making use of a manganese dioxide cathode.

SurgePower Materials is a Texas-based company, producing monolayer graphene from plant-based raw material. IDTechEx spoke with Michael Gagliardi (CEO).