| Northvolt is building a future for greener batteries Chemical & Engineering News December 13, 2019 Swedish firm aims to feed a booming electric vehicle market with more-sustainable lithium-ion batteries. |
| Why “Move Fast and Break Things” Doesn’t Work Anymore Harvard Business Review December 10, 2019 Greg Satell cites JCESR as an example of how to explore multiple domains at once and combine them into something that produces value. |
| New Flow Batteries Could Accelerate an Electrical Grid Powered by the Sun and Wind SciTechDaily November 7, 2019 Berkeley Lab scientists have developed an affordable flow battery membrane for the electric grid from a new class of polymers called AquaPIM. |
| Go with the flow: Scientists design new grid batteries for renewable energy ScienceDaily November 7, 2019 Scientists have designed an affordable ‘flow battery’ membrane that could accelerate renewable energy for the electrical grid. |
| Expert: Energy storage, electric car charging would ‘pay big dividends’ for Dubuque Telegraph Herald November 2, 2019 Solar and wind energy have experienced substantial growth in Iowa in recent years as production costs have declined. |
| As The Original Moonshot Turns 50, We Still Need Public Support For Innovation October 26, 2019 We tend to think of innovation as an individual effort. It’s much easier to visualize someone like Thomas Edison, Steve Jobs or Elon Musk, in a flash of inspiration, coming up with a brilliant idea than it is to imagine a vast, collective effort. Yet make no mistake. Innovation is a team sport and great innovators are great collaborators. |
| The coming electric vehicle transformation Science October 25, 2019 Electric vehicles are poised to transform nearly every aspect of transportation, including fuel, carbon emissions, costs, repairs, and driving habits. |
| With Lithium-Ion Batteries, Fire Hazard Remains Unsolved Engineering News-Record October 23, 2019 Ruins of a lithium-ion battery factory in Oelbronn-Duerrrn, Germany, remain after a March 2018 fire. There were no injuries. |
| Lithium-ion battery development takes Nobel Science October 18, 2019 JCESR Director, George Crabtree, and JCESR Thrust Lead, Kristin Persson, were featured and quoted in Robert Service’s news article about the Nobel Prize. |
| Got what it takes to win a Nobel Prize? (why lithium-ion’s award should inspire you) The Courier – College of DuPage’s student newspaper October 16, 2019 JCESR Thrust Lead, Brian Ingram was featured and quoted by the Courier on the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. |
| Inside James Dyson’s Costly Decision to Kill His Electric Car Fortune October 17, 2019 James Dyson is beaten but not bowed by the failure of his electric car, a project many years in the making. |
| UChicago Alum John B. Goodenough Wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry Chicago Inno October 9, 2019 A University of Chicago alumnus who had a role in developing the lithium-ion batteries that power our cell phones, laptops and electric cars has been awarded a Nobel Prize in chemistry. |
| University of Chicago alum John Goodenough becomes oldest Nobel Prize winner at 97 ABC News Chicago October 9, 2019 JCESR researcher, Shrayesh Patel, was interviewed by ABC News regarding the Nobel Prize announcement of John B. Goodenough, “for the development of lithium-ion batteries.” |
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| Global Redox Flow Battery Market Set to Reach $370M by 2025: QY Research Utility Dive Utility Dive August 20, 2019 Industry experts say the United States has to create incentives for lithium-ion battery products to encourage manufacturers and decrease its dependence on Chinese imports. |
| Dominion Submits $33M Battery Storage Pilot Plan Associated Press August 6, 2019 Dominion Energy Virginia announced Tuesday a plan to spend around $33 million to build four electric power battery storage projects at three sites in central Virginia. The pilot projects, totaling 16 megawatts, would be the utility’s first use of battery storage technology. |
| Fire at Arizona Energy Storage Battery Bank Draws Scrutiny Engineering News-Record July 3, 2019 Questions are still awaiting answers as Arizona Public Service Co. investigates the cause of an explosion April 19 in a 2-MW/2-MWh grid-connected energy-storage battery facility in Surprise, Ariz. |
| To Compete in the Global Battery Arms Race, the US Must Spur its Domestic Market, Analysts Say Utility Dive June 24, 2019 Industry experts say the United States has to create incentives for lithium-ion battery products to encourage manufacturers and decrease its dependence on Chinese imports. |
| Arizona Fire Highlights Challenges for Energy Storage Associated Press June 23, 2019 Arizona Public Service has been an early adopter of energy storage technology seen as critical for the wider deployment of renewable energy and for a more resilient power grid. But an April fire and explosion at a massive battery west of Phoenix highlighted the challenges and risks that can arise. |
| Federal Push to Develop Batteries for Power Grid Runs into State Opposition Houston Chronicle June 20, 2019 The power sector has long viewed batteries as the answer to the challenges of the modern electric grid, but efforts by the federal government to speed their development have run into fierce opposition from states and utilities reluctant to cede control over the emerging technology. |
| US Initiative to Reduce Storage, EV Reliance on Chinese Minerals Amid Trade Uncertainty Utility Dive June 13, 2019 Even though the United States possesses critical minerals, the growth of energy storage, as well as electric vehicles, will require more sources than the ones domestically available, George Crabtree, director at Argonne National Laboratory’s Joint Center for Energy Storage Research, told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee June 4. |
| Recycling Key to Cutting Battery Storage Cost, Argonne Chief Says Energy Storage Publishing June 6, 2019 The US should take urgent action to cut battery costs and reduce dependency on other nations for raw materials in order to expand the use of energy storage systems, legislators have been told. |
| How Can the US Reduce Battery Costs and Foreign Dependence? Recycle, Argonne Official Tells Senators Utility Dive June 5, 2019 Figuring out a way to recycle lithium-ion batteries could significantly reduce the cost of battery storage and other applications, George Crabtree, director at Argonne National Laboratory’s Joint Center for Energy Storage Research, told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee yesterday. |
| Senate Energy Resources Committee Issues Testimony From Argonne National Laboratory Energy Central News June 4, 2019 The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee issued the following testimony by George Crabtree, director of the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research at Argonne National Laboratory, at a hearing to examine opportunities for the expanded deployment of grid-scale energy storage. |
| Energy Storage Could Lead to Air Taxis, Low-Carbon Power Grid Bloomberg Environment June 4, 2019 National laboratory scientists are envisioning a future in which electric airplanes ply the skies and large batteries enable full electrification of the U.S. transportation system. |
| Experts Eye Government Role in Expansion of Energy Storage Daily Energy Insider June 4, 2019 A panel of experts called on the federal government to increase its role in the development of energy storage technology, which is being increasingly seen as a method to ensure energy supplies amid natural disasters and other periods of power shortages or outages. |
| The Race Is on to Build a Better Battery Fortune May 24, 2019 Renewable energy could reshape the global economy—but only if it can be cheaply and safely stored. Many companies, such as JCESR startup, Form Energy, are racing to meet this goal. |
| To Create Prosperity, Free Market Competition Isn’t Enough—You Need Collaboration Too Barron’s May 15, 2019 Science’s commitment to communal effort is not at all new, but is a thread running deep in America’s long history of technological dominance. And it’s not all about private companies competing with each other, either: it’s about how the market can benefit from public investment. |
| Is Nanotech the Next Big Breakthrough in Longer-lasting Batteries? South China Morning Post May 7, 2019 In the global race to create more efficient and long-lasting batteries, some are betting on nanotechnology – the use of minuscule parts – as the most likely to yield a breakthrough. |
| We Need to Rethink Agility for a New Era of Innovation BizTimes April 29, 2019 Over the past few decades, agility has largely meant moving faster and faster down a predetermined path. Over the next few decades, however, we’ll need to learn how to go slower and collaborate more effectively to deliver much larger impacts. |
| How Slippery Surfaces Allow Sticky Pastes and Gels to Slide MIT News April 22, 2019 Engineered surface treatment developed by JCESR researchers at MIT could significantly boost the overall efficiency of flow batteries. |
| Registration Open for 12th Annual Beyond Lithium-Ion Symposium Argonne National Laboratory April 11, 2019 The 12th annual Beyond Lithium-Ion Symposium on energy storage brings together scientists and engineers to discuss transformational advances and the further breakthroughs needed in scalable energy storage to go beyond the current state-of-the-art lithium-ion batteries. |
| 10 Disruptive Battery Technologies Trying to Compete with Lithium-ion Solar Power World January 29, 2019 Chicago-based research intelligence firm PreScouter recently released a report detailing 10 new battery technologies poised to disrupt the market over the next decade and usher in the next wave of high-performance batteries. Here’s a high-level look at the report findings. |
| Cleantech Innovations in the Midwest Need More Venture Capital Money Medill Reports January 28, 2019 Though still an industrial metropolis, Chicago is actively becoming a clean energy innovation hub for microgrids, electric cars and next generation battery research. |
