Eight Departments Unveil Action Plan to Boost Technological Breakthroughs in Advanced Energy Storage Systems

Eight Departments: Promote Engineering and Application Technology Breakthroughs for Supercapacitors, Lead-Carbon Batteries, Sodium-Ion Batteries, Flow Batteries, and More

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and seven other departments issued the "Action Plan for High-Quality Development of the New-Type ESS Manufacturing Industry." The plan emphasizes accelerating the iteration and upgrading of mature technologies such as lithium batteries, supporting disruptive technological innovations, and enhancing the supply capacity of high-end products. It aims to promote engineering and application technology breakthroughs for supercapacitors, lead-carbon batteries, sodium-ion batteries, flow batteries, and more. The plan also focuses on developing long duration energy storage (LDES) technologies such as compressed air, accelerating improvements in techno-economic performance and system energy conversion efficiency. It advocates for moderately advanced deployment of ultra-long duration energy storage technologies like hydrogen storage, encourages the development of multi-type hybrid energy storage technologies based on application needs, and supports fundamental research on forward-looking technologies such as new-system batteries, smart batteries, thermal and cold energy storage, and new-type physical energy storage.