Webinar: Battery Technologies Conference

Vukani Communications is back again with the 6 edition of the Battery Technologies Conference, and this time around, the gathering is virtual. Electrical Energy is an essential commodity without having any easy and direct storage facilities by different packaging unlike other commodities. Battery Energy Storage Systems are widely used for a variety of applications. There is a huge need of batteries in the market since a major part of the economy across the globe cannot move without battery storage. Battery storage technologies have been evolving starting from nickel-iron to the stable long sustaining technology of lead-acid. Lead-acid battery storage has been quite stable for many decades and it needs performance improvement to suit the needs of the time mainly in synergy with the advancement of Industry 5.0. Lithium-Ion batteries have captured a good fraction of the market even though it has two major issues to deal with in terms of high cost and complications in recycling. Aluminium-Ion is a good alternative for Lithium-Ion batteries with slightly lower performance but hugely saving the cost and thus it provides a good trade-off between performance and cost.

Hence the need for continuous attention from research and innovation perspectives for better serving the storage needs within the transport sector and renewable energy sector amongst others. All stakeholders on the battery energy storage sector remains hungry for latest developments on battery management systems with different technologies in addition with hybridisation of technologies for better performance with lower costs. The main focus remains in cost reduction, energy efficiency enhancement as well as life cycles.