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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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Polar Night Energy plans second pilot sand-battery in Finland Polar Night Energy will build a second pilot plant in southern Finland to test its power-to-heat-to-power sand battery technology. The project aims to demonstrate the system’s ability to reconvert stored heat into electricity.

May 05, 2025

R&D

US’ Georgia Tech, Stryten Energy tap lead battery innovation A new battery energy storage system (BESS) will combine academic research and real-world deployment to create a living laboratory for energy storage experimentation.

Apr 28, 2025

R&D

E.ON partners with Superdielectrics to develop novel polymer-based energy storage E.ON is now working with a UK-based battery tech firm to advance more environmentally friendly energy storage for households.

Apr 17, 2025

R&D

South Korean research leads to new lith-ion hybrid anode material “This research offers a pathway to smaller, lighter, and more efficient energy storage for next-generation electronic devices,” said Dongguk University Professor Jae-Min Oh.

Apr 17, 2025

R&D

Unlocking underground energy storage with defunct fossil fuel infrastructure A new study found that housing compressed-air energy storage systems in abandoned oil and gas wells could improve system efficiency by 9.5%.

Apr 01, 2025

Manufacturing

Power electronics for customized battery energy storage Startup p&e power&energy is offering multilevel inverter technology to manufacturers and integrators of battery energy storage systems (BESS). Interconnecting individual cells enables cost savings and the service life and efficiency of the systems, which can be individually configured for each application, can be increased.

Cornelia Lichner

Mar 27, 2025

Technologies

Sulzer, Hyme Energy to commercialize novel molten salt energy storage Sulzer is developing advanced pumps for Hyme Energy’s patented molten hydroxide salt energy storage technology. Building on the success of the pioneering Molten Salts Storage (MOSS) project in Denmark, the partners now seek to commercilize the solution.

Mar 27, 2025

R&D

Pathway to commercialization of aqueous sulfur-based redox flow batteries Researchers in China have identified a series of engineering strategies to bring aqueous sulfur-based redox flow batteries closer to commercial production. Improving catalyst design, ion-selective membranes, and device integration will be key to solve this battery storage technology’s issues.

Emiliano Bellini

Mar 27, 2025

Sodium-ion batteries

China announces procurement of sodium-ion batteries with price ceiling at $150/kWh The innovative project located in a suburban district in the south of Shanghai will integrate five different energy storage technologies, including sodium-ion batteries. Its first phase will have a cumulative capacity of 40 MW/160 MWh.

Mar 24, 2025

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