Batteries for Emerging Economies

The Faraday Institution is funding research to reduce the cost and improve the performance of battery technologies for use in developing countries and emerging economies in order to enable the clean energy transition and reduce reliance on diesel generators.

RELCo-BAT Reclaimed Electrolyte, Low Cost Flow Battery

The Universities of Southampton and Sheffield and the Botswana International University of Science and Technology are developing a low-cost soluble lead flow battery to promote grid stability and a secure, clean supply in off-grid generation with a focus on Botswana and Sierra Leone.

Low Cost Graphite Polysulphide Single Liquid Flow Battery

Researchers at the University of Strathclyde are working with StorTera to reduce the cost of an innovative graphite polysulphide single liquid flow battery by refining and cost-engineering the system.

Advanced manufacturing of 3D porous electrodes for redox flow batteries

The Queen Mary University of London and UCL will combine 3D printing and electrospinning to develop an innovative concept of 3D electrodes for optimised use in redox flow batteries.

Device engineering of Zn-based hybrid microflow batteries and by-product H2 collection for emerging economies

UCL, with Bramble Energy, will develop a novel printed circuit board-based cell-module battery architecture for zinc-based hybrid microflow batteries.

AFFECTING GLOBAL CHANGE

This is part of a wider programme of work being funded by Transforming Energy Access (TEA), funded by UK aid from the UK government. TEA is a research and innovation platform supporting the technologies, business models and skills needed to enable an inclusive clean energy transition.

Through this project and our wider work with the World Economic Forum’s Global Battery Alliance and World Bank’s Energy Storage Partnership the Faraday Institution is in a position to affect global change, helping communities with low or no connectivity to have reliable access to energy sources and bringing economic, social and environment benefits to developing countries and emerging economies.

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