Predicting the energy storage tech of the future
A panel moderated by Clean Horizon head of market analysis Corentin Baschet featured Dr Billy Wu, energy technologies and systems expert and senior lecturer at Imperial College, a London University, alongside Matt Allen, CEO and co-founder of UK-based project developer Pivot Power and Jim Stover, who is chief marketing officer at VRB Energy, a vanadium flow battery manufacturer based in North America with a subsidiary company in China.
While a poll found that the event's viewers believe that lithium-ion will continue to be the technology that dominates the industry still in three to five years’ time - a finding that came as no surprise to any of the panellists - there’s still a lot of scope for other technologies to complement lithium in today’s market and the future may see other options coming to the fore.