Batteries and SuperCapacitors for the Smart Power Grid: Market Opportunities 2009-2016

Batteries and SuperCapacitors for the Smart Power Grid: Market Opportunities 2009-2016 published by NanoMarkets in August, 2009. This report consists of 120 Pages and the price starts from US $ 995.

Introduction

While the current electrical grid is a modern marvel, the smart grid of the future will include significant electrical storage as part of the solution to increase the grids efficiency, enhance reliability, and help reduce the environmental impact of supplying the electrical power needs of modern society. As a result, NanoMarkets believes chemical batteries, ultra-capacitors, and the materials from which they are built represent an exciting business opportunity that is poised to take off in the near future. This report is designed to quantify that opportunity and identify the best strategies to capitalize on it.

By 2016 there will be 33 GW of generating capacity on the grid from solar panels and wind farms that can swing wildly in their ability to generate electrical power at any given time. Electrical storage will be a requirement to level the load when the sun doesn' t shine or the wind doesn' t blow in a predictable manner. In addition to load leveling, grid storage will allow peak shaving where stored electricity from non peak demand periods can be used during peak load times. Peak shaving can reduce the need for new power plants and reduce the grids overall carbon footprint.

Chemical batteries and ultra-capacitors represent complimentary pieces of the smart grid storage equation with ultra-capacitors used for smoothing short term disruptions in power quality and batteries storing current for longer term load leveling and peak shaving applications. While other technologies such as hydro and compressed air storage will certainly be integral parts to the overall storage solution, batteries and ultra-capacitor storage represent a large attractive near term materials growth sector.

This new market study of materials for chemical batteries and ultra-capacitors for smart grid applications surveys and analyzes the markets for the various battery and ultra-capacitor types currently in use and about to enter service in smart grid applications as well as R&D developments, including those related to systems. As with all NanoMarkets reports, this report includes a detailed eight year forecast of materials for smart grid storage applications and an in-depth discussion of key firms active in the area.

The primary source for the opinions and conclusions in this report is extensive interviews with various industry and academic sources carried out by NanoMarkets. Secondary research for this report was taken from information available on the World Wide Web, commercial and government databases, trade press articles, technical literature, information learned at technical conferences and trade shows, SEC filings and other corporate literature. The forecasting approach taken in this report is explained in more detail in Chapter Four.

• E.1 Introduction: Smart grid storage and materials opportunities.
  • E.1.1 Overview of the smart grid and the role of energy storage.
  • E.1.2 Current energy storage options for a smart grid.
• E.2 Opportunities for smart grid storage; materials and manufacturing companies.
• E.3 Key Firms to watch in smart grid energy storage landscape.
• E.4 Summary of Forecasts.

• 1.1 Background to this report.
  • 1.1.1 Materials opportunities in the emerging smart grid.
• 1.2 Objective and scope of this report.
• 1.3 Methodology of this report.
• 1.4 Plan of this report.

• 2.1 Introduction: The crucial need for advanced storage solutions in a smart grid.
  • 2.1.1 Overview of the smart grid.
  • 2.1.2 The need for storage in the smart grid and examples of its use today.
  • 2.1.3 Storage options on the smart grid
  • 2.1.4 Materials opportunities in smart grid storage
• 2.2 Traditional grid storage solutions
  • 2.2.1 Lead acid and advanced lead acid batteries
  • 2.2.2 Metal hydride batteries
  • 2.2.3 Lithium ion batteries
• 2.3 Advanced grid storage solutions.
  • 2.3.1 Sodium Sulfur batteries.
  • 2.3.2 Vanadium redox. and other redox flow battery systems.
  • 2.3.3 Zinc bromine and other hybrid flow battery systems.
  • 2.3.4 Liquid metal batteries.
  • 2.3.5 Chemical storage materials roadmap.
• 2.4 Ultra-capacitors and their place in the smart grid
  • 2.4.1 Current ultra-capacitors and their current applications.
  • 2.4.2 Ultra-capacitor applications in a smart grid.
  • 2.4.3 Advanced Ultra-capacitors and their smart grid applications
  • 2.4.4 Ultra-capacitor materials roadmap.

• 3.1 Advanced Lead Acid Companies
  • 3.1.1 Exide Technologies
  • 3.1.2 Enersys
  • 3.1.3 C&D Technologies
  • 3.1.4 Ultralife Batteries
  • 3.1.5 Axion Power International
  • 3.1.6 Varta Bosch
• 3.2 Advanced lithium Ion
  • 3.2.1 Altair Nanotechnologies
  • 3.2.2 Ener1
  • 3.2.3 Valence Technologies
  • 3.2.4 SAFT Groupe/ABB JV
  • 3.2.5 NGK Insulators Ltd
  • 3.2.6 A123 systems
  • 3.2.7 Boston Power
  • 3.2.8 nexeon (silicon anode lithium ion batteries)
  • 3.2.9 Imara
  • 3.2.10 SAFT
  • 3.2.11 Sanyo
  • 3.2.12 Hitachi maxell
  • 3.2.13 Cobasys
  • 3.2.14 Johnson Controls/Saft Advanced Power Solutions
  • 3.2.15 Kyushu Electric Power and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
• 3.3 Sodium Sulfur
  • 3.3.1 NGK insulators Ltd
  • 3.3.2 Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO)
• 3.4 Zinc Bromide Storage Batteries
  • 3.4.1 ZBB Energy
• 3.5 Vanadium Redox based systems
  • 3.5.1 Vfuel Pty Ltd
  • 3.5.2 Sumitomo Electric Industries
  • 3.5.3 Cellennium limited (Thailand)
  • 3.5.4 RE-fuel Technology
• 3.6 Others battery systems
  • 3.6.1 Metal Hydride
  • 3.6.2Revolt (zinc air)
  • 3.6.3Liquid metal batteries (MIT)
• 3.7 Ultra-capacitors
  • 3.7.1 Maxwell
  • 3.7.2 Siemens
  • 3.7.3 EPCOS
  • 3.7.4 NEC/Tokin
  • 3.7.5 Panasonic/Matsushita
  • 3.7.6 Elna/Asahi Glass
  • 3.7.7 Ness Capacitor
  • 3.7.8 Power Systems Co.
  • 3.7.9 ESMA
  • 3.7.10 EEStor
  • 3.7.11 EnerG2
  • 3.7.12 APowerCap
  • 3.7.13 BatScap

• 4.1 Forecasting Methodology
  • 4.1.1 Data Sources
  • 4.1.2 Clean power mandates that drive demand for grid storage
  • 4.1.3 Storage roadmap for a smart grid
• 4.2 Eight-year forecast of materials used in smart grid storage batteries and ultra-capacitors
  • 4.2.1 Traditional chemical storage technologies
  • 4.2.2 Advanced chemical storage technologies
  • 4.2.3 Ultra-capacitor storage technologies

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