The South African battery storage and automotive components group of companies Metair Investments acquired 25.1% of the German battery manufacturer Akkumulatorenfabrik Moll (Gertrud Moll) for almost $8.5 million, the firm ...

Lead-acid battery equipment manufacturer Sovema changed its name to Sovema Group on June 14 in line with the company’s expansions into making machinery for the lithium-ion battery industry. Massimiliano Ianniello, Sovema ...

The International Lead Association held its 20th conference (Pb2017) last week in Berlin with a series of presentations showing yet again that the future of lead is now inextricably bound ...

Bulgarian lead-acid battery manufacturer Monbat has bought two lithium battery firms — Gaia Akkumulatorenwerke and EAS Germany — in Germany, the firm confirmed on June 26 to SeeNews, a regional ...

The European arm of EnerSys, the reserve and motive power battery manufacturer, has added a new range of onboard chargers to its portfolio, the company announced in June. Most motive power ...

Flow-Rite Controls, the US-based designer and manufacturer of fluid control devices for lead-acid batteries, announced the appointment of Michael Leonard as sales and marketing director on June 26. Leonard has nearly ...

German utility Ewe Gasspeicher announced plans on June 27 to build what it says could be the biggest battery in the world, to be housed in underground salt caverns off ...

Midac, the Italian automotive, motive and stationary battery manufacturer, bought the traction battery marketing and sales company Batteriunion i Järfälla on June 12. Batteriunion is part of the Swedish company Addtech ...

The ILA and EUROBAT have called on the European Union to decrease the allowable lead levels permitted in blood for workers in the lead industry. In a letter to Charlotte Grevfors ...

Thailand’s first project to use the lead/supercapacitor technology of the UltraBattery from Furukawa Battery will begin operating in July, the LABAT conference in Bulgaria was told last week. The brainchild ...

Three production lines for manufacturing high-purity nickel plate, strip and wire for use in batteries and supercapacitors were opened by Hpulcas GmbH, a new producer of high-purity metals, the firm ...

The bankrupt saltwater battery firm Aquion Energy was bought for $9.8 million by Juline-Titans, an investment holding company affiliated to the China Titans Energy Technology Group (pictured), on June 20, ...

Aqua Metals, the lead battery recycling company, announced it had won its first patent for its AquaRefining technology on June 1. The Devices and Method for Smelterless Recycling of Lead Acid ...

India’s largest fuel retailer, the Indian Oil Corporation, is planning to develop its own batteries, the company confirmed to BESB on June 20. The firm is looking at lead-acid batteries as ...

Jun Furukawa and Geno Papazov were jointly given the Gaston Planté award for contributions to lead-acid battery science and technology at this year’s LABAT conference, which was held in Bulgaria last ...

Reducing the levels of lead in workers’ blood was announced as a priority at a forum on June 15 by three influential players in the lead battery industry: Battery Council ...

South Africa’s largest power supplier, Eskom, opened a battery-testing and demonstration facility in Rosherville, Johannesburg, in early June. Here it will compare different battery technologies with a view to installing ...

  The three winners this year of the ees AWARD 2017 for the most innovative concepts and solutions from the energy storage industry were Solarwatt, LG Chem and Energy Depot Deutschland. “Each ...

Hoppecke Industrial Batteries announced on May 26 it had recorded a 25% growth in revenues for the financial year 2016-2017. The company, the UK arm of Germany’s Hoppecke Batterien, has also ...

GS Yuasa, the Japanese lead-acid battery manufacturer, unveiled three new car battery ranges at the Automechanika conference in Birmingham on June 6. The first are GS SMF (sealed maintenance free) batteries ...

Fiamm, the Italian battery producer and distributor, presented two new lead-acid battery ranges at the Autopromotec conference in Bologna between May 24 and 28. The EnergyCUBE and PowerCUBE batteries have been ...

Skeleton Technologies, the ultracapacitor manufacturer, has launched another product in its ‘Skel’ range, announcing on May 30 an energy storage system for industrial power back-up applications that the company says ...

  Trojan Battery, the deep-cycle AGM battery manufacturer, launched a new range of batteries for solar and renewable energy applications at the Intersolar Europe conference in Munich on May 30. The range ...

The global yacht battery market has been forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 2.54% between 2017 and 2021, according to a report by Research and Markets ...

Hammond Group’s latest developments in paste additive technology will allow the firm to stay at the forefront of conservation efforts to cut carbon emissions, customer service manager Stephan Bolanowski told BESB ...

The Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium announced on May 25 it had begun work with Crown Battery in a fundamental science project to examine positive plate samples at various states ...

Wärtsilä, the Finland-based technology group, announced on May 15 it had bought software company, Greensmith Energy Management System, in a transaction that should close in July. No price tag has been ...

Lead battery recycling firm Aqua Metals’ AquaRefining technology was on May 18 named Breakthrough Solution of the Year by S&P Global Platts, the energy and commodities markets information provider.  The ...

Exide Technologies, the US-based lead battery manufacturer, distributor and recycler, on May 12 announced it was raising $200 million in funding for capital projects. This, said the company, was in a ...

Johnson Controls, the international battery maker, has told BESB it plans to build a plant in China in a joint venture with local carmaker BAIC that will produce six million ...

Bipolar lead battery firm Advanced Battery Concepts announced on May 19 it had signed up deep-cycle battery maker Trojan Battery as a licensee for its GreenSeal technology. This is the ...

It is with sadness that we report the death of Pier Giuseppe Bernini, general manager for Solith, the lithium subsidiary of Italian battery machine manufacturer Sovema. Pier was a talented ...

ElectriPlast Corporation, the wholly-owned subsidiary of conductive plastics developer Integral Technologies, announced on May 4 it was in advanced discussions with a secret Asian lead-acid battery manufacturer that was seeking ...

Trojan Battery, the deep-cycle battery manufacturer, will launch a new line of deep-cycle Solar AGM batteries at the Intersolar exhibition in Munich, Germany, at the end of May. The new line ...

Scientists at the US Naval Research Laboratory and battery technology developer EnZinc announced on April 27 they had developed zinc-based batteries as “a safer alternative to fire-prone lithium batteries”, which ...

NorthStar, the Swedish-American energy storage provider owned by private equity firm Altor, was awarded the Sally Miksiewicz Innovation award at the BCI conference in Florida on May 1. The award was ...

Daramic, the lead-acid battery separator manufacturer, on April 26 announced the grand opening of the first major polyethylene battery separator manufacturing facility in India, in Gujarat. The company would not reveal ...

Ray Kubis, long-time battery veteran and chairman of Gridtential Energy, says we need to bear in mind some of the mistakes of the past as they are bound to happen ...

Bipolar lead acid battery firm Advanced Battery Concepts received further endorsement of its Greenseal bipolar battery technology on April 7 with an undisclosed investment from Hal Hawk, the president and ...

VSun Energy, the wholly-owned subsidiary of mining company Australian Vanadium, announced on April 12 it was in negotiations with the designer of a residential vanadium redox flow battery that will ...

A controversial application by Exide Technologies to re-open a lead battery formation operations site in Bristol, Tennessee has been withdrawn. A spokeswoman for the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation announced ...

Aqua Metals, a firm that recycles lead acid batteries via an electrolytic process rather than smelting, announced at the end of April that it had acquired UK-based Ebonex IPR for ...

Lead battery developer NorthStar announced on April 25 that it will partner City Utilities of Springfield, Missouri, US, in a pilot project to install its Blue+ thin plate lead batteries ...

Crown Battery, the lead acid battery manufacturer, announced at the end of March it had made two acquisitions: distributor and servicer of industrial batteries Industrial Powersource and Warehouse Energy Power, ...

Lead battery manufacturers and consumers have to pay a $1 fee for each battery they make or buy following the implementation on April 1 of the Lead-Acid Battery Recycling Act. ...

Two important coups for Skeleton Technologies, the German-Estonian ultracapacitor manufacturer, in the past weeks. The first was the opening at the end of March of a new production line in Saxony, ...

Lead acid battery manufacturer Hoppecke Industrial Batteries signed in April a new service contract with Siemens, one of the largest global train manufacturers, to service the battery systems on new rolling ...

China has more than doubled its output target for recycled lead, setting a 2.5 million tonne target for 2020, the information agency S&P Global Platts reported on March 21. This figure ...

Just over a week after announcing its biggest ever battery installation in Japan, the saltwater battery firm Aquion Energy on March 8 made an announcement of a rather different kind: ...

EnerSys has won a $71 million contract to supply thin plate pure lead batteries to the US Defense Logistics Agency for up to five years, the company announced on March ...

An application by Exide Technologies to re-open lead battery formation operations at a site in Bristol, Tennessee is meeting public opposition. On March 21, 280 local residents signed a petition on ...

Scientists at the University of Missouri Science and Technology are to work with the ALABC — the Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium — to replace lithium-ion batteries with lead-acid in ...

Black Diamond Structures, a developer and manufacturer of nanomaterial additives for lead-acid and lithium batteries, opened a new testing facility for advanced batteries at its plant in Austin, Texas in ...

Chinese battery makers are leading a renaissance in lead acid battery science, delegates learned in February at a technical workshop organized by the Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium and Narada ...

Chinese lead recycling company Tianjin Toho on March 3 announced plans to begin building a $52 million battery recycling plant in Tianjin, a port city of 15.5 million people on ...

Chinese battery manufacturer Chaowei Power launched a new version of its Black Gold battery for electric bikes at the end of February — a lead-acid battery that uses the nanomaterial ...

John Goodenough, the 94-year-old co-inventor of the lithium ion battery, and his research team at the University of Texas’ Cockrell School of Engineering have developed the first solid-state lithium battery. The ...

Aquion Energy, the US saltwater battery designer, struck a deal on February 27 with one of Japan’s largest electric power companies, Kyushu Electric, to provide storage for solar power in ...

Zinc bromine flow battery producer Primus Power has launched its second-generation battery, the EnergyPod 2, the US firm announced on February 21. Paul Ferrera, a business development official at Primus Power, ...

Powervault, a UK energy storage company which makes home energy storage devices that are suitable for both lead and lithium batteries, announced this week that it was preparing to increase ...

Seven firms — Advanced Battery Concepts, Aqua Metals, Daramic, Gridtential, Hammond, Northstar Battery and Remy Battery — had submitted entries for Battery Council International’s innovation award when the submission deadline closed ...

Just days after signing the deal with Exide Industries, on February 14 Ecoult secured another boost with a funding pledge from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, which has pledged A$4.1 ...

In early February, India’s Exide Industries announced an agreement with Ecoult, owned by East Penn, to manufacture UltraBattery for the Asian market. It’s a landmark agreement. BESB spoke to John ...

Aqua Metals, the inventor of a water-based lead battery recycling process, today (February 9) announced a licensing agreement with multi-industrial giant Johnson Controls, signalling a massive boost for the firm ...

The European Commission yesterday (February 8) fined lead recycling firms Recyclex, Campine and Ecobat Technologies a total of €67.6 million ($72.4 million) for forming a cartel to fix the prices ...

Entek International, battery separator designer and producer, signed an agreement on January 31 with Separindo, the Indonesia-based polyethylene battery separator producer, to make and sell PE separators for flooded lead ...

Exide Technologies, the US-based lead battery manufacturer and recycler, submitted an implementation plan on January 9 for the final closure of the battery recycling plant at Vernon, near Los Angeles ...

Ultracapacitor designer and manufacturer Skeleton Technologies on February 2 launched its latest product based on its curved graphene technology. The SkelStart Torque 24-volt engine start module is capable of starting engines ...

Lead battery start-up Gridtential announced on January 12 that four major battery companies — East Penn Manufacturing, Crown Battery Manufacturing, Power-Sonic and Leoch International — had invested a total of ...

A report by the California Department of Toxic Substances Control revealing the results of soil tests nearby the lead battery recycling firm Quemetco at the City of Industry, Los Angeles, ...

Indian lead battery manufacturer Exide Industries opened a $100 million assembly facility at its Haldia plant in West Bengal on January 2. The company will also spend $44 million over ...

Bipolar lead battery firm Advanced Battery Concepts signed a non-exclusive licensing agreement with Johnson Controls in December for its GreenSeal bipolar lead acid battery. The firm, which announced the deal earlier ...

For the record, Tesla’s gigafactory in the US state of Nevada officially began making 2170 lithium-ion battery cells for its Powerwall 2 and Powerpack 2 energy storage systems on January ...

ZAF Energy Systems, the US-based zinc battery developer, announced Randy Moore, the former president of EaglePicher Technologies, was appointed president and CEO on January 17 with Tom Shireman as new ...

Despite the turbulent political events shaping perceptions of the future for the lead battery industry, BCI executive vice-president Mark Thorsby says he is positive about the year ahead for the ...

Pete Smith, the president of Daramic, the battery separator manufacturer, has stepped down following a reshuffle announced on January 6. Bryan Moorehead, vice president and managing director of the Americas, Europe, ...

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has introduced a raft of measures aiming at cutting pollution caused by the scrap lead acid battery industry, the Shanghai Metals Market reported ...

A strategic alliance of four lead battery organizations — Batteries Council International, the International Lead Association, The Association of Battery Recyclers and EUROBAT — is shortly to launch a campaign ...

Innogy SE, the new name of German utility RWE, confirmed on January 3 that it had completed the purchase of UK-based lead-acid battery manufacturer Belectric. A change of name for ...

John W. Wirtz, the man who took his father’s small family engineering business and turned it into an international battery machine manufacturing firm, died on December 3. He was 91 ...

China’s largest electric bike battery maker, Tianneng Power International, is to expand its facility at Changxing to produce 15 million kilovolt ampere hours of lead-acid batteries a year from 2017. The ...

Scientists at the university of Bar-llan in Israel and the nanotube company OCSiAl have announced “spectacular” results when they added single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) to the electrode pastes of lead-acid ...

UK energy utility UK Power Networks on December 2 announced the success of a two-year trial of the largest grid-scale battery in Britain, 6MW, which it says could transform the ...

Scientists at the UK universities of Bristol and Surrey, working with contact lens maker Augmented Optics, say they have made a breakthrough with new polymers for supercapacitors that “could transform ...

Redflow, the Australian zinc-bromine flow battery maker, announced on December 5 it had approved a further seven installers for its ZCell storage system, meaning the company now has installers in ...

Axion Power, the lead carbon battery firm, has announced the deployment of its batteries in two remote locations in North America in November where low temperatures can play havoc with ...

ZincFive, a US-based developer and manufacturer of battery management systems for nickel-zinc batteries, confirmed mid-November that it had bought NiZn battery maker PowerGenix in a move to commercialize the technology ...

Italian generating firm Nidec-ASI and German utility STEAG have installed one of the world’s largest battery energy storage systems with a total capacity of 90MW across six different sites in ...

Some 19 locations — including pre-schools, parks and day-care centres — in a 1.7 mile radius around the 15-acre Exide Technologies battery recycling plant in Vernon, California are being tested ...

Reports coming out in the last couple of weeks have predicted a robust Asia Pacific automotive sector will drive demand for lead acid batteries for the next 10 years, with ...

Mark Stevenson, one of Asia’s best known figures in the lead industry, is to join Aqua Metals, a US recycling start-up with a unique process of recovering lead from discarded ...

Daniel Bakholdin — a well known veteran in flywheel development and commercialization — was appointed chief technology officer for the US firm Amber Kinetics. He will be responsible for advancing ...

Environmental organizations Green Cross Switzerland and Pure Earth identified the used lead-acid battery industry as the most polluting industry in the world in their joint report released on October 26. In ...

Aqua Metals, the US electrochemical lead recycler, announced on November 15 it was about to sell shares of its common stock. A price will be announced at the time of ...

RedT Energy, the UK-based vanadium redox flow energy storage machine company, confirmed mid-November that it had finished its so-called ‘Gen 1 market seeding phase’. This is where its first manufacturing run ...

Detchko Pavlov, arguably the leading academic researcher of lead of his generation, was presented with a lifetime award for his services to the Indian lead acid battery industry on November ...

Southwest Airlines has started converting its 1,000-strong fleet of diesel baggage tractors and belt loaders to Thin Plate Pure Lead batteries from NexSys, a subsidiary of US battery firm EnerSys, ...

  China introduced regulations in October to the low-speed vehicle market in what could be a huge boost to the lead battery industry, with demand potentially growing from 23,000 units in ...

Shock waves throughout the environment industries over Donald Trump’s election win to become US president have been met with a calm and positive response by NAATBatt’s executive director Jim Greenberger. Bloomberg ...

Despite a Bloomberg report that batteries giant Johnson Controls will avoid having to pay a potentially massive fine by the EU for scheming with other parties to keep used lead ...

Michael Mayer — known to almost three generations of lead battery veterans — died suddenly in the early morning of Tuesday November 1. He was 82. He had worked for the ...

The world’s largest gas and battery hybrid grid storage system will be installed by the end of the year, utility Southern California Edison announced in mid-October. SCE said the 10MW lithium-ion ...

Panasonic will launch a range of valve-regulated 12V lead-acid batteries, the Japanese electronics maker announced on October 18. This will replace its LC-R range of 26 models over the next six ...

US giant Johnson Controls confirmed in October another expansion of its AGM battery production, this time in China, where its existing plant at Changxing, Zhejiang Province, will double its annual ...

A former lead battery recycling site shut down in 2014 could be added to Puerto Rico’s list of most hazardous sites, the US Environmental Protection Agency confirmed on October 15. There ...

  The release of the latest thinking in October by the European Commission on the 2006 Battery Directive — a so-called Evaluation Roadmap — has prompted a lively response from EUROBAT, the ...

  NorthStar, the US-Swedish lead-acid battery maker, released on October 25 a remote battery monitoring system called ACE which uses wireless Bluetooth connectivity. The company says the system will, overall, increase the ...

Lead battery veteran Ray Kubis has been made chairman of start-up firm Gridtential, the bipolar lead battery company. Kubis joined the Gridtential board in October last year after stepping down ...

Australian flow battery designer Redflow on October 4 announced orders worth US$600,000 for its ZCell batteries from installation partner Standard Solar, which said half of those 48 systems had been ...

Lithium-sulfur battery developer Oxis said in October that it had successfully tested its development cell technology to 400Wh/kg of energy density. The UK firm said it had been reached after ...

Entek, the lead acid battery separator manufacturer, announced plans at the end of September to expand its operations in Asia but indicated that it was cautious about its strategy in ...

Primus Wind Power has chosen Trojan’s OverDrive AGM 31T deep-cycle batteries for its line of AIR wind and hybrid wind/solar turbine equipment used in remote regions as back-up power for ...

For the record, the International Lead Award was presented to David Wilson, long-time head of the International Lead Association, on the opening morning of the 15th European Lead Battery Conference ...

Scientists at the RWTH University of Aachen in Germany in September announced they had started testing a large-scale M5BAT battery storage system that uses five different chemistries — four lithium ...

East Penn’s Australian subsidiary Ecoult has installed its lead-acid hybrid UltraBattery in Dublin, Ireland, which makes it the first European installation. The UltraFlex battery, a lead-acid battery with an added layer ...

Lead carbon battery manufacturer Axion Power announced the release in September of its first residential energy storage system for the public using solar energy stored with the firm’s newest generation ...

Integral Technologies and its subsidiary company ElectriPlast announced on September 22 the completion of the manufacture of 100 bi-polar plates for lead acid batteries which are being integrated into lead ...

AquaMetals, the start-up lead battery recycling firm, was on September 22 handed tax incentives worth $3.6 million from the Nevada government for the firm’s lead-recycling technology. The tax break followed just ...

“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts” may be a cliché — but it is apt for describing the principle of virtual power plants” As more and more ...

The REV initiative — the ‘reforming energy vision’ of New York State — has a pilot that may serve as the first steps in creating a template for the future. Sunverge ...

Loading weight to take weight off the load Despite a proliferation of highly nuanced business models, utilities and solar-and-storage companies continue to fine-tune their approach to using energy storage as part ...

Tesla founder Elon Musk unveiled on August 23 the latest battery pack for the automaker’s Model S and X cars that he claims extends the range beyond 300 miles. The Model ...

Speculation over the presumed sale of Nissan’s battery business, Automotive Energy Supply Corporation, to electronics maker Panasonic continued in August. Although the car manufacturer continued to deny claims of a ...

The sky could literally be no limit to the potential applications for Kokam’s Ultra High Energy nickel manganese cobalt batteries that on July 26 successfully helped to land the first ...

Argonne National Laboratory and RSR Technologies and East Penn Manufacturing have agreed to work together under a standard US government cooperative research and development agreement. The agreement has already started ...

For the record, Rongke Power a partner and affiliate of UniEnergy Technologies said in May it plans to deploy the world’s largest battery — a vanadium flow battery — rated ...

GE Ventures announced in June that it had bought a stake in Germany’s Sonnen for an undisclosed sum to boost its presence in the fast-growing market for battery systems built ...

Sherwood Partners, the US insolvency adviser, has been engaged by Imergy, the vanadium flow battery firm, to market and sell the company’s assets. On July 18 Imergy entered into an ...

Tesla Motors agreed in August to buy SolarCity, the US’s largest rooftop solar installer for $2.6 billion. Although not finalized as Batteries International went to press, the acquisition offers a ...

Australia has been widely hailed as the next place to be for PV uptake. Now its uptake of solar-plus-storage is positive for the whole of Asia. Solar-plus-storage down under More than a ...

American Lithium has appointed lithium battery expert, David Swan to the company’s advisory board. Swan has more than 30 years’ professional experience in clean and efficient energy conversion and storage ...

Cris Williams has been appointed as the International Lead Association’s new senior scientist-health with responsibility for providing in depth expertise on toxicological science associated with lead exposures. He will be ...

UniEnergy Technologies, the US Vanadium flow battery firm appointed Rick Winter, the chief operating officer in June as president with full P&L responsibility and accountability for daily operations of the ...

For the record ALABC member companies gathered in May in San Antonio, Texas, at the first meeting of the Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium’s general assembly to discuss preparations for ...

Environmentally sound management of used lead batteries continues to be an issue that needs addressing, writes Bob Tolliday of the International Lead Association. How the lead industry encourages responsible care around ...

The life, times and happy founding of the magazine were all down to the entrepreneurial skills and knowledge of Don Gribble. Creating a publishing legacy Theories of destiny aside, chance plays a ...

No review of the past 25 years of the industry would be complete without some mention of the leaders that have died — and their legacy. Passing the baton from generation ...

The batteries industry has always proven to be one of the more charitable sectors. It’s not so much seen — because it’s not spoken about — but it’s real and ...

For the past quarter century, the Advanced Lead-Acid Battery Consortium — chronologically more or less parallel in time with Batteries International — has represented the advancing technology of the industry. The ...

The history of the lead acid battery has been one of constant improve-ments — very rarely has it been in huge leaps forward but mostly it’s been slow and steady ...

A short and deliberately selective history of technological advances in the world of energy storage over the past 25 years. An overview of the past quarter century of battery development is ...

  Swedish-US lead battery manufacturer North Star agreed a $500 million deal in September to supply German automaker Daimler with ultra high performance pure lead AGM batteries for the car firm’s ...

  Testing of Axion Power International’s lead carbon batteries is to start in September in Belgium at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Battery Innovation Centre of MOBI Research Group. The ...

Seven battery firms won UK National Grid contracts on August 26 to provide 200MW sub-second enhanced frequency response support to the grid. It is the first time that batteries will ...

Argonne National Laboratory and RSR Technologies and East Penn Manufacturing have agreed to work together under a standard US government cooperative research and development agreement. The agreement has already started ...

Ultracapacitor manufacturer Skeleton Technologies confirmed on August 24 that it was developing a new energy storage system “along similar lines” to its SkelRack product, a module designed for automated production ...

The sky could literally be no limit to the potential applications for Kokam’s Ultra High Energy nickel manganese cobalt batteries that on July 26 successfully helped to land the first ...

Speculation over the presumed sale of Nissan’s battery business, Automotive Energy Supply Corporation, to electronics maker Panasonic continued in August. Although the car manufacturer continued to deny claims of ...

  US solar power company REC Solar appointed Matt Walz as chief executive officer on August 24. He was previously a vice president of commercial solar at Duke Energy Renewables. Duke Energy ...

Sherwood Partners, the US insolvency adviser, has been engaged by Imergy, the Vanadium flow battery firm, to market and sell the company’s assets. On July 18 Imergy entered into an ...

Tesla founder Elon Musk unveiled on August 23 the latest battery pack for the automaker’s Model S and X cars that he claims extends the range beyond 300 miles. The Model ...

  EnSync Energy Systems, the US energy management system company, announced in August the sale of multiple projects in Hawaii to AEP OnSite Partners, a subsidiary of American Electric Power. The sale ...

The acquisition by Bosch, one of the world’s biggest automotive suppliers, of Seeo, the solid-state battery developer of energy storage, could mark a major turning point for the battery industry, ...

A deal between 3M and LG Chem should accelerate the use of nickel, cobalt, manganese (NCM) in lithium-ion batteries and ultimately boost the take-up of electric vehicles globally, says Christian ...

The commercial and industrial energy storage market in North America is poised for healthy growth, a dynamic that is attracting investment into this sector, Ryan O’Keefe, senior vice president of ...

GE is to build 30MW battery energy storage system for the Imperial Irrigation District in Southern California. This is GE’s third lithium ion storage project in recently months. GE anticipates ...

Battery storage companies attracted significantly higher levels of investment in the second quarter of 2015, compared with the firstquarter, with flow battery companies leading the way, according to a report ...

Sparton Resources, through its majority controlled subsidiary, VanSpar Mining, has executed a contract to finance the commissioning of a large vanadium redox flow batteries. This battery is located in Hebei ...

Johnson Controls, announced mid-September it is planning to reduce its global workforce by as many as 3,000 people, or 2.5% of total employees, through comprehensive initiatives designed to ultimately deliver ...

Redflow, the Australian provider of energy storage flow batteries, has announced that it has decreased its zinc-bromide battery (ZBM) cost by 50% through technology improvements and a stronger manufacturing relationship ...

ABB, the power and automation technology group, announced in September that it will install an integrated solar-diesel microgrid at its Longmeadow premises in Johannesburg, South Africa. “This kind of integrated product ...

Electrovaya, the Canadian-headquartered lithium ion polymer firm, announced in September that it has kicked off a project to design and build an advanced Transportable Energy Storage System (TESS), an adaption ...

Saft, a manufacturer of advanced technology batteries, claimed in mid-September it had made a “strategic breakthrough” into China’s fast growing industrial robot sector with its first order for STEP Electric ...

Johnson Controls released a new version of its start-stop battery — a 12V lithium ion version — at a German trade show in September while announcing that it was: expanding production ...

Skeleton Technologies, the ultracapacitor start up firm, has launched a new range of ultracapacitors that it says offers the highest level of energy density on the market. Through the use of ...

A new product could be used to extend the life of the deep-cycle batteries typically used in off grid solar and wind power systems. The Battery Extra EX02, from Sakura Batteries ...

Axion Power International, a developer of advanced lead-carbon batteries, has secured a strategic marketing, sales and reselling agreement with Pacific Energy Ventures, a technology and project development firm specialising in ...

US battery recycler Battery Solutions has entered into an agreement to acquire state-of-the-art battery sorting technology from Sweden-based technology company Refind. The move makes Battery Solutions the first US company to ...

China’s 4% consumption tax on lead-acid batteries — to be introduced on January 1 next year — may not be enough to slow production to the point that it aligns with ...

The market for lithium-ion batteries market in India is projected to witness double digit growth at over 35% CAGR during the next five years, according to a new research report ...

Chinese lead-acid battery manufacturer Sacred Sun has started work on the phase II construction of its expansion of the Sacred Sun Industrial Park. The purpose of the project is to facilitate ...

Agreement was finalized in February for US battery separator firm Polypore International, to be split into two and sold for $3.2 billion. Asahi Kasei Corporation is to acquire its energy ...

Maxwell Technologies, the ultracapacitor firm announced in March that its ultracapacitor-based Engine Start Module (ESM) will be offered as a factory-installed option on new Kenworth T680 and T880 trucks. The ...

The global lead acid battery market is projected to reach $58.5 billion by 2020 at an estimated compound annual growth rate of 4.6% during the forecast period, according to a ...

The lead-acid battery industry has the opportunity to become a major player in the market for 48-volt automotive systems, according to Chip Bremer, marketing and communications manager for the Advanced ...