Dublin, Nov. 7, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Research and Markets
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/5kfqz9/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
believe will find considerable new business potential supplying
advanced materials - especially nanomaterials - for newer forms of
grid storage. In addition, believe 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
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