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Small 24/7 clean power commitments could cut costs for long-duration storage TU Berlin researchers say early demand for round-the-clock carbon-free electricity could help bring advanced energy technologies to market faster through technology learning effects. Grant funding for the research was provided by Google, which has since announced plans to build the world’s largest iron-air battery.

Mar 09, 2026

Revenue streams

BESS in Brazil: Feasibility of three strategic approaches Based on real data from the National Interconnected System between 2024 and 2025, the study evaluates the technical, economic, and regulatory performance of batteries operating as autonomous market agents, behind the meter for consumption shifting, or co-located with distributed solar generation.

Feb 20, 2026

R&D

Chinese Academy of Sciences unveils 101 MW compressor for compressed air energy storage The new compressor is described as the world’s most powerful single-unit compressed air energy storage (CAES) system, with a maximum discharge pressure of 10.1 MPa and an efficiency of 88.1%.

Emiliano Bellini

Feb 17, 2026

Fire risk and safety

Comparing safety profiles of lithium-ion, sodium-ion and solid-state batteries New research finds that battery safety rankings are not universal but highly dependent on application scenarios, and shows that LFP batteries can emit high levels of hydrogen fluoride, challenging their reputation as the “safest” chemistry.

Feb 11, 2026

R&D

German researchers develop sodium-ion battery based on lignin German researchers have developed a sodium-ion battery technology using lignin-based hard carbon as the negative electrode. The 1 Ah battery cell prototype showed no significant degradation after 100 charging and discharging cycles.

Emiliano Bellini

Feb 05, 2026

Software

Battery management systems key to deploying batteries in data centers A new study highlights the critical role of advanced AI-integrated battery management system technologies in monitoring, optimizing, and predicting battery performance for reliable and sustainable data center operations.

Emiliano Bellini

Feb 04, 2026

R&D

Market-driven battery storage delivers major economic gains, study finds Utility-scale batteries provide macroeconomic benefits through market-based operation, though regulatory shifts are needed to optimize grid support.

Jan 22, 2026

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Disassembled batteries

Recycling

Spanish initiative for advanced battery recycling technologies Spain's Energy Technology Institute has initiated a project named RECILION in a bid to develop advanced recycling technologies that are reproducible on a commercial scale.

Pilar Sanchez Molina

May 27, 2024

Assistant Professor Golareh Jalilvand and her research team

R&D

Bringing lithium-sulfur batteries closer to commercialization Researchers at the University of South Carolina have successfully transitioned their highly-durable lithium-sulfur battery technology from coin to pouch cells and reported competent energy densities.

May 27, 2024

Schematic of the system

Technologies

Integrating pumped hydro with compressed air energy storage A group of Chinese researchers has made a first attempt to integrate pumped hydro with compressed air storage and has found the latter may help the former to better deal with large head variations.

Emiliano Bellini

May 16, 2024

Diagrams of vanadium redox flow batteries

R&D

Evaluating the profitability of vanadium flow batteries Researchers in Italy have estimated the profitability of future vanadium redox flow batteries based on real device and market parameters and found that market evolutions are heading to much more competitive systems, with capital costs down to €260/kWh at a storage duration of 10 hours.

May 01, 2024

Honda electric vehicle

R&D

Car batteries can optimize the power grid Australian researchers have found that if 10% of vehicles are electric and utilize V2G connections, they could reduce peak electricity demand at local substations by 6% and save car owners hundreds of dollars per year on charging costs.

John Fitzgerald Weaver

Mar 13, 2024

World map with pumped hydro markers

R&D

Global atlas for pumped hydro at mining sites The researchers that created the atlas considered mining pits, pit lakes and tailings ponds within mining sites and located nearby reservoirs. The selected sites have a potential storage capacity of 30 TWh.

Emiliano Bellini

Feb 28, 2024

Lamborghini with lithium-ion batteries

R&D

Organic cathode for high-energy, fast-charging lithium-ion batteries Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed a new organic cathode material with an energy density higher than most cobalt-based cathodes. It can charge–discharge in as little as six minutes. Automaker Lamborghini has licensed the patent for the technology.

Feb 01, 2024

Toyota concept car

R&D

New solid state battery charges in minutes, lasts for thousands of cycles Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new lithium metal battery that can be charged and discharged at least 6,000 times — more than any other pouch battery cell — and can be recharged in a matter of minutes.

Jan 15, 2024

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