Batteries

Energy Renaissance spent two years exploring several potential sites for Australia’s first lithium ion battery factory. The ongoing support of the Northern Territory Government is helping seal the deal to site the facility in Darwin. With planning for the facility heating up, reaching an agreement on support from the Northern Territory Government could not have … Continue reading Territory Govt supports call for Li-Ion factory in Darwin →

Tesla will build the world’s biggest lithium ion battery to be installed at a wind farm in South Australia before the end of the year. The successful tender was announced in the South Australian capital Adelaide today as a partnership between Tesla and French renewable energy company Neoen for the 100MW/129MWh battery at Neoen’s Hornsdale Wind … Continue reading Tesla to build ‘world’s biggest battery’ in Australia →

Ultra-thin, flexible screen-printed batteries for cheap portable devices and intermittent renewable energy are closer to reality, due to a joint UNSW-University of Queensland project to further develop technology by battery energy storage firm Printed Energy and bring it to market. Backed by the energy innovator and philanthropist Trevor St Baker, founder of ERM Power and … Continue reading Screen-printed batteries for renewables on the way →

Vector has won a multi-million-dollar Australian contract to supply the Territory Generation Alice Springs Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) project. Vector was one of a number of Australian and international firms bidding for the contract that will see it supply Australasia’s largest grid-tied lithium ion battery storage solution to stabilise and enhance generation on the … Continue reading Northern Territory seeks solution for battery storage →

As exploding batteries in mobile phones, computers and headphones continue to make headlines, researchers at Swinburne’s Centre for Micro-Photonics are one step closer to producing commercially viable, chemical-free, long-lasting, safe batteries.

STMicroelectronics, Chinese R&D institute IMECAS and EPOCH, a technology company working on electric-vehicle batteries are developing and marketing a battery-management system for New Energy Vehicles (NEV). The companies plan to develop a battery controller using advanced Smart Power (BCD) technology and the SPC5x automotive microcontrollers from ST. To be defined in close cooperation with Chinese … Continue reading Companies to develop battery management system for NEVs →

The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has confirmed it is working with the South Australian Government to develop a financing package to support the accelerated delivery of Australia’s largest grid-scale battery storage project, for the South Australian energy market.

Scientists from ETH Zurich and IBM Research Zurich are the first to develop a redox flow battery so small that it combines energy supply and cooling.

Chemists from University of Michigan believe redox flow batteries are the best solution to store solar and wind power. Using a predictive model of molecules and their properties, the team has developed a charge-storing molecule around 1000 times more stable than current compounds.

A significant price drop has seen solar batteries skyrocket in popularity. Experts believe that solar battery storage could be the solution to widespread power outages, such as those seen in South Australia over the past few months.

Korean university UNIST will be working with public organisations in the energy sector to develop a new type of eco-friendly battery that can store and produce electricity using seawater.

Sensor battery life could last up to ten times longer with use of a voltage detector chip developed by engineers from the University of Bristol.

Australian energy storage specialist Redflow Limited has announced that it has extended the warranty for its 10 kilowatt hour (kWh) ZBM2 and ZCell zinc-bromine flow batteries to 10 years.

Researchers at Stanford University have found a way to incorporate fire-extinguishing materials into lithium-ion batteries.

Stanford University researchers have identified nearly two-dozen solid electrolytes that could someday replace the volatile liquids used in smartphones, laptops and other electronic devices.

AGL Energy Limited is building a virtual power plant in Adelaide to service homes and small businesses, in a prototype that could be rolled out nationally.

A researcher from the Technical University of Munich has developed a battery test cell that can investigate anionic and cationic investigations separately, which has led to new insight into the workings of lithium-ion batteries.

Engineers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany have developed a new concept for current and voltage sensors for batteries that could be used in electric vehicles (EV).

Engineering company Instrumental has uncovered the cause of Samsung’s exploding Galaxy Note 7 batteries.

A team of scientists from UCF has developed a new process for creating flexible supercapacitors that can store more energy and be recharged more than 30,000 times without degrading.