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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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UK grant for English vanadium flow battery project Invinity, the part UK government-owned vanadium flow battery (VFB) company, has secured a $9 million grant from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) for a site in the South East of England.
Max Hall
Apr 04, 2025
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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%.
Phoebe Skok
Apr 01, 2025
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Japan’s first subsidized flow battery under construction Sumitomo Electric has operated a 2 MW/8 MWh pilot vanadium flow battery in San Diego since December 2018 and is constructing a similarly sized facility on the island of Kyushu.
Max Hall
Mar 31, 2025
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Inlyte Energy moves toward US manufacture of iron-sodium batteries The startup’s collaboration with Swiss company Horien Salt Battery Solutions is set to accelerate the commercialization of its low-cost, long-duration energy storage (LDES) technology.
Phoebe Skok
Mar 31, 2025
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Made-in-Australia microemulsion flow battery for long-duration storage Allegro Energy and Origin Energy will install Australia’s first microemulsion flow battery at the Eraring coal-fired power station, in New South Wales.
Ev Foley
Mar 28, 2025
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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
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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.
Marija Maisch
Mar 27, 2025

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Diagrams of vanadium redox flow batteries
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.
Marija Maisch
May 01, 2024
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Honda electric vehicle
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
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World map with pumped hydro markers
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
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Long-duration storage
Long-duration storage market to hit $223 billion in 20 years, says IDTechEx Alternatives to lithium-ion batteries will likely emerge in the years to come, according to a new report by IDTechEx.
Ryan Kennedy
Feb 06, 2024
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Lamborghini with lithium-ion batteries
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.
Marija Maisch
Feb 01, 2024
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Stack of a vanadium flow battery
Chinese researchers develop high power density vanadium flow battery stack Researchers at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) in China have developed a 70 kW-level vanadium flow battery stack. The newly designed stack comes in 40% below current 30 kW-level stacks in terms of costs, due to its volume power density of 130 kW/m3.
Marija Maisch
Jan 24, 2024
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Toyota concept car
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.
Marija Maisch
Jan 15, 2024

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