Friday, June 07, 2013: Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/3p3vw2/batteries_and) has announced the addition of the “Batteries and Supercapacitors for the Smart Grid – 2013” report to their offering.
Energy storage is a vital component of the Smart Grids that are currently being built around the world. These grids are designed to improve the reliability of electricity transmission and distribution, facilitate the integration of renewable energy generators, and allow long-distance trading of electricity supplies. All of these functions require the grid to offer buffers where electricity can be stored locally.
However, for the most part the technologies up to this task have not been available. To the extent that grids have incorporated storage it has either been through the use of conventional batteries originally targeted towards the automotive industry and which are not optimal for grid storage or through major engineering projects such as compressed air storage which are impossible to replicate generally.
While we believe that this report will become required reading for battery and supercapacitor firms, this report also spells out the potential for materials companies and specialty chemical firms who NanoMarkets believes will find considerable new business potential supplying advanced materials – especially nanomaterials – for newer forms of grid storage. In addition, NanoMarkets believes that this report will be of considerable use to utilities and other firms directly involved in the Smart Grid business, since it will show them how the next-generation of batteries and supercaps for Smart Grids will help to enable Smart Grid deployment.
This new report reviews the latest applications for grid storage and shows where money can be made in the near-to-medium term future by supplying the batteries and supercapacitors that will meet the coming storage requirements of the grid.
This report provides granular eight-year forecasts of chemical batteries and supercapacitors in both volume shipments and market value, with breakouts by technology type, application, and regions supplied. In addition, this report provides detailed assessments of the strategies being utilized by leading firms active in this space.
Key Topics Covered:
Executive Summary
E.1 The need for storage in the smart grid
E.2 Smart grid-related opportunities for battery and supercapacitor makers
E.3 Smart grid storage-related opportunities for materials makers
E.4 Key firms to watch in grid energy storage
E.5 Summary of eight-year forecasts
Chapter one: Introduction
Chapter Two: Materials and Technology for Grid storage
2.1 Traditional grid storage solutions
2.2 Advanced battery solutions
2.3 Supercapacitors for grid storage applications
2.4 Key points in this chapter
Chapter Three: Eight-Year Forecasts of Smart Grid Storage Markets
3.1 Key drivers for storage in the smart grid
3.2 Forecasting methodology
3.3 Eight-year forecasts of chemical batteries for grid storage
3.4 Eight-year forecasts of grid-storage supercapacitors
3.4 Summary of eight-year forecasts
3.5 Differences from previous forecasts
Chapter Four: Company Profiles
4.1 Advanced Lead-Acid Companies
Axion Power International
C&D Technologies
EnerSys
Firefly Energy
Exide Technologies
Ultralife Batteries
4.2 Advanced lithium ion battery companies
A123 Systems
Altair Nanotechnologies
Boston Power
Hitachi Maxell
Johnson Controls/Saft Advanced Power Solutions
Kyushu Electric Power and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Nexeon
The Saft Group
Sanyo/Panasonic
Valence Technologies
4.3 Sodium sulfur battery companies
GeoBattery
NGK insulators Ltd/Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO)
4.4 Sodium metal halide batteries
Fiamm Sonik
General Electric
4.5 Zinc bromide battery companies
Premium Power Corp
ZBB Energy
4.6 Vanadium redox-based battery companies
Cellennium Limited
Cellstrom GmbH
Deeya Energy
Prudent Energy.
REDT
Sumitomo Electric Industries
V-Fuel Pty Ltd.
4.7 Other battery companies
Cobasys (Metal Hydride)
Liquid Metal Battery Corporation
ReVolt (Zinc Air)
Aquion (sodium ion/water electrolyte)
4.8 Chinese battery companies
Advanced battery
China BAK
China Ritar Power
Highpower International
New Energy Systems
4.9 Supercapacitor companies
EPCOS
Maxwell Technologies
NEC/Tokin
Nesscap
Siemens
