Browsing: Batteries and Storage

Saft launched production on its solid-state lines in Bordeaux on 19 October 2026, after first cells went to Safran for aviation evaluation.

A San Nicolas Island study puts wind hydrogen storage at $0.183/kWh and an LFP battery system at $0.229/kWh.

Ørsted says construction of its 300 MW, 600 MWh Iceni battery near Norwich is complete, with commissioning under way.

A Journal of Energy Storage study of a battery thermal management system with a pulsating heat pipe, fans and capacitors reports preheating a lithium-ion module from minus 30 °C to 0 °C in at most 461 seconds and holding hot modules within 2 °C.

A Journal of Energy Storage review of seven mature grid storage technologies reports pumped hydro at 201 GW in 2025, over 94 percent of global capacity, with round trip efficiencies running from 42 to 87 percent across the plants it describes.

The average daily gap between the highest and lowest priced hours in the UK rose 80 percent to about £123 per MWh in September, as Europe’s roughly $40 billion battery fleet heads into a winter that will test whether more batteries mean less per battery.

BMW began series production of Gen6 round cell batteries in Shenyang, its third battery plant after Debrecen and Irlbach-Straßkirchen, with two more plants due in the coming months and first long wheelbase iX3 deliveries reported for November.

Volkswagen is recalling 22,524 ID.4 vehicles in the United States because charging above 80 percent may trigger thermal propagation in the high voltage battery, and neither the root cause nor the permanent repair is known.

Nightpeak’s 150 MW, two hour Bocanova 2 battery reached commercial operation on 17 September, doubling its Brazoria County site in Texas to 300 MW 13 months after the first phase.

The founder of Europe’s largest second-life storage factory says the model lost to cheaper new cells, and that is good news: Germany needs about 100 GWh of stationary storage by 2030 against about 25 GWh installed, and prices keep falling.