Browsing: Batteries and Storage

China refines 91% of magnet rare earths and about 70% of 20 strategic minerals, limiting what the battery supply chain can achieve by 2035.

Sodium acrylate on a hard carbon anode raises initial Coulombic efficiency of a sodium ion cell from 68.7% to 82.5%, a Nano Energy study reports.

Singapore energy storage target rises to just over 1 GWh by 2030, up from 200 MWh, as peak demand is forecast to reach 13 GW within five years.

BSW-Solar counts about 8.2 GWh of new battery storage in Germany from January to September 2026, with large scale systems supplying three quarters of the growth.

BESS thermal runaway behaves very differently once flames appear, according to a Journal of Energy Storage paper that ran two…

Sumitomo Corporation began construction of a 62 MW, 291 MWh battery in Namie, Fukushima, due to operate in 2029.

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.