Energy Storage

ESS Inc announced a strategic partnership with Energy Storage Industries Asia Pacific to distribute and manufacture iron flow batteries utilizing ESS technology in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania to meet rapidly growing demand for long-duration energy storage in the region.

E-magy and ZSW demonstrated a less than 1% battery cell expansion for the first time in a silicon-dominant lithium-ion battery. With the company's unique nano-porous silicon, batteries are made with only silicon as the active anode material, boosting the energy that can be stored in a single battery.

Researchers have developed a new method to improve solid-state hydrogen fuel cell charging times. Hydrogen is gaining significant attention as an efficient way to store 'green energy' from renewables such as wind and solar. Compressed gas is the most common form of hydrogen storage, however it can also be stored in a liquid or solid state.

GenCell Energy is entering a market cooperation with Milani S.p.A.. The partners have joined forces to maximize market penetration of GenCell's zero-emission hydrogen-to-power and ammonia-to-power alkaline fuel cell technologies to power critical applications in C&I buildings throughout Italy and across Europe.

FREYR Battery announced the establishment of a technology resources campus and business unit in Japan. The new business unit is the company's first physical location in Asia and will focus on efforts to facilitate and scale-up FREYR's testing and development of the 24M Technologies battery platform.

IDTechEx attended The Battery Show, one of the biggest conferences and exhibits for companies working in anything battery related. The conference and exhibition was held live in Stuttgart, Germany from 28th-30th June 2022. This premium article provides an overview of some of the key thermal management materials being presented at the exhibition. This includes thermal interface materials, gap fillers, insulative foams, aerogels, and fire suppression technologies.

Researchers have created a new type of flow battery that is predicated upon a composite material that they invented, which is a nanofluid where the nanoparticles are battery-active materials, that they called nanoelectrofuel.

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.

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.