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Panasonic claims world’s first trial of cybersecurity monitoring for grid-scale BESS A Japanese joint-pilot will test grid-scale BESS with a range of local and remote attack vectors, with cybersecurity monitoring to watch for indications of anomalies.

13 hours ago

Technologies

Scientists demonstrate quantum battery prototype with rapid charging Scientists from Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), RMIT University and the University of Melbourne have developed a quantum battery prototype that demonstrates rapid, scalable energy storage using collective quantum effects.

14 hours ago

Technologies

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

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Flow batteries

Testing begins on 20 MWh, ‘Europe’s largest’ vanadium redox flow battery Fraunhofer ICT says the pilot facility has demonstrated how clean energy can feed the grid regardless of weather conditions.

Pilar Sanchez Molina

Jul 01, 2025

R&D

Swedish startup testing silicon anode battery material Sweden-based Green14, a plasma silicon startup, said its silicon-based anode material is being tested by the battery group at RISE, Sweden’s national research organization.

Valerie Thompson

Jun 26, 2025

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Discounts don’t buy home battery trust in Australian rebate landscape, study finds A new study out of Curtin University in Perth has found that despite growing affordability from government rebates, Australian households hesitate to adopt home batteries due to significant non-financial barriers.

Jun 26, 2025

R&D

Australian researchers achieve zinc-ion battery life breakthrough Australian researchers are reporting a breakthrough with zinc-ion battery technology, developing a new method to significantly boost the structural stability of the cathode material that enables the battery to operate reliably for more than 5,000 charge-discharge cycles.

Jun 25, 2025

R&D

Comparing thermal runaway behavior of sodium-ion, lithium-ion batteries Scientists in Germany have analyzed the thermal runaway behavior of sodium-ion batteries and lithium-ion batteries inside a 10-L reaction vessel. They have thermally abused 30 samples, each under a different state of charge level, and have found that both types suffered from runaway when the charge is at least 50%.

Jun 20, 2025

Sodium-ion batteries

Spanish research center makes sodium-ion battery advances ITE has manufactured a prototype sodium ion cell as part of the SOSBAT project to find more sustainable energy storage alternatives to lithium-ion batteries.

Pilar Sanchez Molina

Jun 12, 2025

R&D

Australian battery startup develops innovative separators Battery technology startup Voltavate has secured AUD 850,000 ($553,000) in an oversubscribed, 'pre-seed' funding round led by Australian investor Artesian.

Jun 12, 2025

Sodium-ion batteries

Indian university opens lithium- and sodium-ion battery research center Academics at the new site are exploring the use of glass-polymer composite electrolytes and the development of paper-based batteries, among its lines of research.

Jun 06, 2025

R&D

Optimizing Carnot batteries for renewables storage Based on the the heat pump-organic rankine cycle, scientists in Portugal have created six different models of Carnot batteries for stationary storage. They investigated 16 different combinations of working fluids and created a multi-objective optimization for the best candidate.

May 26, 2025

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