Development of New Sodium Battery Technology for Energy Storage Applications

Lancaster based, LiNa Energy Ltd is a clean tech company which addresses a rapidly growing need for sustainable and low-cost energy storage. LiNa is commercialising high performance sodium batteries which offer greater safety, sustainability, and lower cost versus lithium-ion. LiNa’s breakthrough battery technology can not only help the world get to net-zero by 2050 but help achieve it sooner.

LiNa’s innovative new storage technology, enables more renewable energy to be used when and where it's needed. Key to LiNa’s innovation is the use of an ultra-thin sodium-conducting ceramic electrolyte rather than the flammable solvent used in conventional batteries – this enables inherently safe performance and greatly increased energy densities. LiNa batteries contains no cobalt or lithium, enabling transparent and ethical supply chains using locally sourced materials and domestic manufacturing. Using abundant raw materials and scalable processes will enable LiNa to manufacture cells for less than $50 / kWh, half of the cost of lithium-ion batteries today.

This presentation will give an introduction to the LiNa cell technology, the fundamental electrochemical reactions, electrode structures and electrolytes. The use case of the technology within the battery energy storage markets and examples of the demonstrations made to date on the development pathway will be presented including results of abuse testing confirming the inherent safety credentials of the technology.