India’s Reliance Industries has completed the takeover of sodium-ion battery company Faradion, while Amazon is set to trial a novel flow battery technology.

We hear from a managing director at TDK Ventures, investor in sodium-ion BESS company Peak Energy, about the current state and future potential of the technology which most agree is on the cusp of large-scale commercialisation.

US firm Natron Energy has announced plans for a sodium-ion gigafactory in North Carolina, while two Chinese firms have firmed up their projects, all-in-all totalling over 30GWh of annual sodium-ion production capacity.

The first phase of the world’s largest sodium-ion battery energy storage system (BESS), in China, has come online.

Natron Energy has started commercial-scale operations at its sodium-ion battery manufacturing plant in Michigan, US, and elaborated on how its technology compares to lithium-ion in answers provided to Energy-Storage.news.

A large battery energy storage system (BESS) project in Hubei, China, using sodium-ion technology is set to be completed this year.

We bring you the energy storage technology predictions of Aquila Clean Energy EMEA, Kyon Energy and BayWa r.e, three major Europe-based developers and operators.

As with previous years, our year in review wrap up of 2023 includes interviews with a handful of industry players from around the sector.

Inlyte Energy has completed a seed funding round to develop its iron and salt-based battery technology, which it claims has high efficiency, long lifetime, ‘competitive’ energy density, excellent safety and an ultra-low cost.

Fastmarkets analysts Muthu Krishna and Phoebe O’Hara look at the potential of solid-state and sodium-ion batteries to scale up and ease the pressure on lithium-ion NMC and LFP battery chemistries, which currently dominate the EV and ESS markets.