Battery manufacturer Sony is to close its Shimotsuke lithium-ion facility this September.
Sony is trying to improve the company’s efficiency in order to compete with foreign rivals, sources told the The Japan Times.
Customer-Led Network Revolution (CLNR) has deployed six energy storage devices across live electricity networks in North East England and Yorkshire.
The lithium-ion batteries, manufactured by A123 Systems, have capacities of 5MWh, 200kWh and 100kWh. The energy storage systems are integrated with other network technologies such as voltage control, real time thermal rating and customer solutions of demand response.
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and SMA Solar Technology (SMA) have opened two separate utility-scale solar plants with lithium-ion battery storage in Germany.
KIT inaugurated together with its partners SolarWatt (SW) and Kostal Solar Electric (KSE) a 1MW PV plant coupled with a 100kWh lithium-ion battery storage system at its research centre in Karlsruhe. The project focuses on demonstrating and researching energy storage and grid control. The PV modules were supplied from SW and the inverters from KSE.
China's lead-acid and lithium-ion battery industries recorded double-digit growth in 2013 while nickel-metal hydride and nickel-cadmium exports fell, according to a report by SinoMarketInsight.
The report, 'China Battery Industry Report 2014-2017', states the yield of lead-acid batteries in China was 205m kVA, 15.4% more than 2012. This is somewhat of a rebound following the 2011 crackdown on what the Chinese government euphemistically called 'backward lead-acid and secondary lead industry production capacities'.
South Korea’s Samsung SDI and German car manufacturer BMW have expanded its partnership with a “multi billion euro” deal that includes the supply of Samsung’s lithium-ion batteries to BMW’s future electric vehicles.
Battery maker Samsung currently provides 96-cell 60Ah battery packs for BMW’s i8 plug-in hybrid and i3 electric car models. BMW plans to increase the order by "at least" 20% to 30% in 2016 from its 2014 level.
South Korean battery maker SK Innovation has secured a deal to supply a 1MW lithium-ion battery storage system for a microgrid pilot project, led by Frauenhofer-Institut, in Magdeburg, Germany.
The 1MW battery has a capacity of 0.5MWh. It is SK’s first export of its energy storage system (ESS) since the company entered business in 2010.
Toyota’s fourth-generation Prius will give the option between a lithium-ion battery and a nickel-metal hydride unit, Toyota revealed in an interview with Automotive News.
"The batteries will be renewed. Everything will be revised. And I think we will come up with a fuel economy that will surprise everyone,” said Koei Saga, senior managing officer at Toyota.
Australian network operator Ergon Energy is to install 20x100kWh lithium-ion batteries across its grid in Queensland.
The power distributor aims to install the first energy storage systems at several locations within the next 12 months and the rest during the following year. The installed batteries will be charged by the grid during off-peak periods at night and discharged at peak periods in the daytime.
Japanese lithium-ion battery manufacturers such as GS Yuasa and possibly Panasonic are eyeing sites in the UK to serve a perceived growing energy storage market, according to S&C Electric Europe.
GS Yuasa’s subsidiary Yuasa Battery Europe has a lead-acid battery manufacturing plant in Ebbw Vale.
German-based high-tech manufacturer Manz received its largest single order of li-ion battery machinery comprising a fully integrated production line in the “lower double-digit million Euro range”, revealed the company.
Manz’s li-ion battery technology will be integrated in consumer electronics such as notebooks and smartphones. “Like most of the orders in this segment today, the products are likely to be delivered to Asia”, said Axel Bartmann, head of corporate communications at Manz to BEST.
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