【SMM Sodium Battery】 Sodium Battery Industry News for February

In the energy storage sector, projects continue to increase in scale:

1. Sodium-ion battery energy storage demonstration projects:

• Huainan's "Aqueous sodium-ion battery Energy Storage Demonstration Power Station" approved as a national new energy storage pilot demonstration project

• CNPC Tianjin Dagang Oilfield 1MW/1MWh sodium battery energy storage power station project put into operation

• Bidding for Henan Polytechnic University Sodium-ion Battery Energy Storage Industrial Base project

• Procurement of integrated cabinet, PCS, EMS for Shanxi Yangquan modular sodium-ion battery energy storage cabinet R&D project

• EPC bidding for Meited New Materials' photovoltaic storage integration project, including sodium-ion battery system

• CTIC and Tianjin Lisheng sign agreement

2. Other projects:

• Xidao Intelligent signs global strategic cooperation agreement with Tiamat

• Huanar New Energy's 3 billion RMB sodium battery investment project signed in Linyi, Shandong

• Sodium battery industry project arrives! Dazhou signs 11.5 billion RMB major project as the first of the Year of the Rabbit

• 500 million RMB sodium battery material project starts construction in Shaanxi

3. Other industry news:

• Tianna's negative electrode material production base completed after financing

• Funeng predicts launching 2nd gen sodium battery products with further performance improvements this year

• Nasino completes pre-A round financing

• India's Sodion Energy launches series of pioneering sodium-ion batteries

• Keheng applies for copper iron manganese precursor and cathode patents for sodium-ion batteries

• Zhongzi obtains sodium-ion battery preparation method patent

• CATL files international patent application for "sodium-ion battery electrolyte, secondary battery, battery module, battery pack and power apparatus"

• Pushi applies for wood-based hard carbon patent for assembling sodium-ion batteries

• SZSE issues regulation letter to Kexiang and chairman for untimely disclosure on major sodium-ion project termination

• Kexiang denies terminating sodium-ion battery project

• Lisheng launches 160Wh/kg cylindrical sodium-ion battery

• Zhenhua New Materials says its sodium-ion cathode material has achieved vehicle application

• Beijing achieves demonstration of sodium-ion, flow, compressed air and other new energy storage technologies

• Greenmu files international patent "A layered oxide cathode material, preparation method and sodium-ion battery"

• Xiawu Xineng applies for two sodium-ion cathode patents

• Punaera achieved successful R&D and sales of first-gen 18650 sodium-ion battery cells in 2023

• Decent Environment to accelerate sodium battery material layout, synergies with Desun

• CATL developing second-generation sodium-ion batteries

• Zigong "sparing no effort" to support sodium battery industry development