Japan’s NGK Insulators has discontinued its sodium-sulfur (NAS) battery product line, with the exit of its partner, BASF, thought to have led to the final decision.

Japanese manufacturer NGK Insulators’ proprietary battery tech features in a large-scale project that has just come online in its home country, as a pilot begins in the US.

One of the world’s most widely deployed non-lithium electrochemical energy storage technologies has received an upgrade, with the launch of NGK and BASF Stationary Energy Storage’s the NAS MODEL L24.

Malaysian manufacturing firm Leader Energy has tied up with BASF Stationary Energy Storage to develop long-duration energy storage projects in southeast Asia using the sodium-sulfur battery technology of NGK.

Invinity and BASF have announced the first deployments of their non-lithium battery storage tech in Hungary and Australia respectively.

A long-duration energy storage system using NGK’s sodium-sulfur (NAS) batteries has been commissioned by a subsidiary of German chemicals company BASF, which seeks out high growth opportunity businesses to work with.