Tag: New battery tech
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Chinese PV Industry Brief: Maxeon posts H1 net loss as US import ban hits sales
Maxeon Solar Technologies said net losses widened to $65.5 million in the first half of 2025, while revenue fell 89.5% year on year to $39 million. Shipments dropped 84.9% to 153.2 MW. Chief Executive George Guo said the losses reflected the ongoing impact of a US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) ban imposed in July 2024…
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Why this storage investor is choosing execution risk over technology risk
Investments are shifting focus to late-venture and early-growth storage bets that scale proven business models rather than novel chemistries or technologies. Even before the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBA) sent seismic waves through the clean energy industry, 2025 wasn’t off to the best start for energy storage hardware companies. Recent high-profile bankruptcies…
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Hundreds of old EV batteries have new jobs in Texas: Stabilizing the power grid
East of San Antonio in Bexar County, 500 electric vehicle batteries at the end of their automotive lives will soon be repurposed to provide energy storage for Texas’ electric grid, a California company, B2U Storage Solutions, announced last week. The batteries, housed in 21 cabinets the size of shipping containers, create a second life for…
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New real-time measurement process can determine State of Charge and battery operational safety
Impedance measurements are crucial for understanding the capacity and health of batteries, but until now, they could only be performed when the battery was at rest. Due to complex measurement and analysis procedures, characterizing a single battery cell could take up to 20 minutes. This limitation, as described by the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology…