Alternative battery technologies, hybrid energy storage, and the use of AI-based solutions drive advances in battery energy storage systems.

Lithium, a key ingredient in the batteries of electric vehicles, has a fast-growing new market, battery energy storage ...

Sometimes, in order to go big, you first have to go small. That's what researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have done with their latest innovation in energy ...

Researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have designed a playing card-sized mini-flow battery aimed at accelerating the pace of discovery of new materials for energy storage.

A recent study maps the limitations of today’s lithium-ion batteries and outlines several promising alternatives, including ...

Scientists have found a way to push zinc–bromine flow batteries to the next level. By trapping corrosive bromine with a simple molecular scavenger, they were able to remove a major barrier to the ...

Flow-style batteries are already demonstrating the potential to dramatically cut the cost of energy storage used to capture the excess output of grid-scale wind and solar plants for later use. A rapid ...

While all having the same function — taking energy, storing it, then releasing it — energy storage systems come in many ...

An aerial photo is showing the largest energy storage 400MW project in Shandong province in Zaozhuang City, China, on March 10, 2024. The ultra-long life battery being used in this project employs ...

Electric vehicle batteries are typically retired once they reach about 80 per cent of their original capacity, but they could ...