Long-Duration Energy Storage intelligence — updated daily.
Offgrid Energy Labs has partnered with Keele University to deploy its ZincGel long-duration energy storage technology in a pilot project, marking the UK's first fully locally manufactured zinc-LDES initiative.
Lava Blue has successfully commissioned Australia's first grid-connected sodium-sulphur battery in Brisbane, highlighting the technology's long-duration capabilities and local supply chain integration.
Form Energy has raised $750 million to scale its 100-hour iron-air battery manufacturing, while ESS Inc. advances iron-based redox flow systems for long-duration grid storage.
The global vanadium supply chain is evolving rapidly, with Idemitsu expanding exploration in Queensland, Largo optimizing high-purity production, and new common user facilities supporting local processing.
Vanadium redox flow batteries offer unique decoupling of power and energy capacity, with major milestones recently achieved by Dalian Rongke Power and Sumitomo Electric.
China is rapidly advancing its long-duration energy storage portfolio with massive compressed air energy storage projects and new vanadium flow battery deployments across multiple provinces.
Recent academic breakthroughs in vanadium redox flow batteries focus on enhancing electrochemical performance. Innovations include MXene-composite electrodes and functionalized zinc oxide membranes.
Vanadium redox flow battery demand increased by 47% in 2024, driven by massive grid-scale deployments in China. Analysts project a 7.5% CAGR for the energy storage segment through 2031.
The HORTA consortium is developing a non-aqueous organic redox flow battery to provide 6 to 24 hours of storage. This initiative aims to reduce Europe's geopolitical dependency on vanadium.
Multiple gigawatt-scale and hybrid energy storage projects, incorporating vanadium flow batteries, are reaching critical construction and operational milestones across China.
Major international partnerships and capacity expansions are accelerating the commercialization of vanadium flow batteries, pushing the technology into the gigawatt-hour realm.
New carbon policies and consumption tax adjustments in China are driving massive investments and technical breakthroughs in long-duration energy storage technologies.