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Technologies pv magazine
Technologies pv magazine

Energy storage systems come in many forms, leveraging different technology types. A class of electrochemical storage, lithium-ion batteries have established themselves as the industry standard.

But there are many new technologies vying for their market share.

Sodium-ion batteries are widely considered a sustainable and resource-saving answer to future energy storage, while flow batteries offer a viable alternative in long-duration storage applications.
However, the path to commercialization is not a straightforward one.

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LG Chem, Sinopec to jointly develop sodium-ion battery materials With investment in the sodium-ion battery sector rebounding in 2025 after last year’s slowdown, two chemical heavyweights are partnering to develop cathode and anode materials for the emerging technology.
Marija Maisch
Nov 07, 2025
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What insurers want battery developers to understand right now There's progress in battery energy storage system (BESS) risk maturity, but insurers are warning of supply chain problems, while OEMs are tightening their treatment of warranties.
Tristan Rayner
Nov 06, 2025
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Spanish start-up Bihar Batteries to commercialize sodium-ion batteries in 2026 The company has produced its first sodium-ion battery prototype and, in collaboration with Spanish research institute CIC energiGUNE, developed sodium-ion cell prototypes that have shown "very promising results".
Pilar Sanchez Molina
Nov 06, 2025
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Australia’s PowerCap enters US with sodium-ion batteries The Australian sodium-ion battery specialist has launched its stationary storage products in the US and plans to establish a local manufacturing facility to scale deliveries across North, Central, and South America.
Marija Maisch
Oct 31, 2025
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Unigrid scales sodium-ion battery production tenfold via Asian contract manufacturing San Diego firm expands global manufacturing capacity tenfold to 100 MWh per year, with 1 GWh targeted in 2026.
Tristan Rayner
Oct 29, 2025
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Relectrify inverterless storage system fast tracked with $25 million ARENA backing Victoria-headquartered battery technology company Relectrify has received $25 million ARENA backing to help deploy it’s CellSwitch inverterless technology, which promises to deliver 20% more energy over a battery system’s lifetime.
Ev Foley
Oct 23, 2025
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Alsym Energy launches Na-Series, claiming safe, low-cost sodium-ion battery storage The Massachusetts-based startup says its new battery is non-flammable, non-toxic, and uses non-FEOC (Foreign Entity of Concern) materials, aiming for a lower levelized cost of storage (LCOS). The technical specs provide some highlights as well.
Tristan Rayner
Oct 22, 2025

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EU expects battery pack price of less than $100/kWh by 2026/27 The prediction was included in the "Battery technology in the European Union: 2024 status report on technological development, trends, value chains and markets" report, by the EU Clean Energy Technology Observatory (CETO).
Pilar Sanchez Molina
Nov 26, 2024
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Using decentralized AI for grid-friendly charging of battery storage systems Researchers from Bielefeld, in Germany, tested the use of individually-calibrated edge controllers in a substation and test households before using the resulting data to train decentralized AI systems.
Sandra Enkhardt
Nov 22, 2024
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Eku Energy gives Australian National University $326,000 for battery research London's Eku Energy has committed AUD 500,000 ($326,000) to the battery energy storage and grid integration program at the university as construction begins on the Williamsdale big battery.
Ev Foley
Nov 22, 2024
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Testing to start on 100 MWh sand-based thermal battery in Finland Finnish startup Polar Night Energy is building an industrial-scale thermal energy storage system in southern Finland. The 100-hour, sand-based storage system will use crushed soapstone, a by-product from a fireplace manufacturer, as its storage medium.
Marija Maisch
Nov 13, 2024
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Hitachi achieves headway with first UK intercity battery train trial The trial in the north of England has demonstrated that a 700 kW battery can enable quieter, zero-emission travel in and out of non-electrified stations. During the tests, a train was recorded operating solely in battery mode for 70km, a sufficient distance to cover bridges, tunnels, and stations.
Blathnaid O’Dea
Nov 08, 2024
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New grid forming strategy for solar batteries Scientists from a major Chinese grid operator have proposed to use an enhanced version of the particle swarm optimization algorithm to adjust inertia and damping coefficients in batteries linked to PV systems. Their approach was validated through a series of simulation and was found to enhance transient performance.
Emiliano Bellini
Nov 08, 2024
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New research optimizes energy density in sodium-ion batteries A machine learning model has identified as the optimum composition to attain the highest energy density for sodium-ion batteries.
Blathnaid O’Dea
Nov 07, 2024
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Australian-made vanadium flow battery project could offer storage cost of $166/MWh Australian Vanadium Limited (AVL) has moved a vanadium flow battery (VFB) project to design phase with the aim of developing a modular, scalable, turnkey, utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS).
Ev Foley
Nov 06, 2024
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Argonne Lab unveils novel technique to track battery aging in real time Argonne Lab uses magnetic resonance to track chemical changes inside working lithium battery cells. without destroying the test cells.
Tristan Rayner
Nov 05, 2024

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