The government has released a package of measures aimed at eliminating serious lithium-ion battery fires by 2030, following a series of incidents involving the batteries. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/24/japan/lithium-battery-fires/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #batteries #environmentministry #waste
The Pentagon and AI giants have a weakness. Both need China’s batteries, badly. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/24/world/politics/china-battery-reliance-pentagon-ai/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #batteries #china #us #ai #datacenters #tech #electricvehicles
A revamp of China's electricity market is boosting the economics of storing power right when international demand is surging, sparking a boom for the Chinese energy storage manufacturers that already globally dominate. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/22/tech/china-reforms-battery-boom/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #china #batteries #tech #artificialintelligence #trade
This is wild. $65/MWh starts to make these #nuclear and methane powered options look very uneconomical.
https://electrek.co/2025/12/12/battery-storage-hits-65-mwh-tipping-point-solar/
Ça se recycle où des batteries 18650 qui n'ont plus trop de capacité à tenir ?
Ou bien ça peut se "rebooster" ?
This is wild. $65/MWh starts to make these #nuclear and methane powered options look very uneconomical.
https://electrek.co/2025/12/12/battery-storage-hits-65-mwh-tipping-point-solar/
Ça se recycle où des batteries 18650 qui n'ont plus trop de capacité à tenir ?
Ou bien ça peut se "rebooster" ?
https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/how-cheap-is-battery-storage/
Exciting times, especially in the sunbelt.
BESS Project capex: $125/kWh (outside China and US).
LCOS: $65/MWh
Dispatchable solar: $76 /MWh (Dayshifting, not 95%+ CF)
A series of setbacks in Asia’s shift to cleaner energy is keeping coal in play in the top-consuming region. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/12/10/energy/asia-high-coal-demand/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #energy #coal #environment #mining #utilities #batteries #renewables #artificialintelligence #datacenters #china #indonesia #india
The grid storage industry set a wild goal for 2025 — and then crushed it. https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/energy-storage/grid-storage-industry-crushes-2025-goal #batteries #energy #success
The grid storage industry set a wild goal for 2025 — and then crushed it. https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/energy-storage/grid-storage-industry-crushes-2025-goal #batteries #energy #success
Fires linked to electric devices powered by lithium-ion batteries increased in Japan this year amid intense heat in the summer across the nation. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/02/japan/japan-lithium-ion-battery-safety/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #batteries #nationalinstituteoftechnologyandevaluation #consumeraffairsagency
@schizoidman
> Massive 20 GWh sodium-ion battery manufacturing plant announced in China
Thanks for drawing my attention to this @deutrino. Even after skimming the article, I'm a bit confused about exactly what it's reporting.
Is the plant;
* using 20GWh to produce batteries?
* producing batteries with a 20GWh capacity?
* producing 20GWh worth of smaller batteries in a production run (eg per month, or per year)?
* Something else?
Can anyone clarify?
This seems like a realistic assessment of the state of solar in Africa.
https://www.lesafricanistes.com/post/why-is-africa-lagging-in-solar-installations
Remarkable growth in "rest of World" of 242% YoY.
@mihamarkic @billiglarper @JohanEmpa
Yes, sooner would be so much better.
OTOH, Lithium BESS has gone from ~100MWh deployed in 2017 to ~92GWh in 2025. so around 1000x in 8 years (and thats not counting domestic behind the meter).
China deployed a 100MWh Sodium BESS in 2024 so by 2032...
Lithium ion batteries can be a fire risk, yes. But cheap ones in household devices (phones, charging packs, *toys*) are much riskier than the ones in EVs, according to Colin Peacock;
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=0fc8e854-476a-4b94-a849-ecfac17b8e35
Lithium ion EV batteries are probably no riskier than a tank of extremely explosive fuel. Certainly not risky enough to justify a regressive crusade against EVs in general, which these days may have nonexplosive sodium ion batteries.