China’s biggest energy storage companies were out in force at a recent trade expo in Beijing, with integrated offerings, bigger battery cells, data centre solutions and sodium-ion products among the new products and tech on show.
Developer-investor Hexa Energy Services has inaugurated what is thought to be Japan’s first operational battery storage project with a capacity market contract.
Form Energy, Noon Energy and Ore Energy are all commercialising proprietary 100-hour battery technologies for LDES applications, but how do they compare on metrics like cost, energy density and round-trip efficiency? We look at what they have revealed, as well as what they haven’t.