The Battery and Energy Supply and Storage Technology Frontier | BESSTf gathers, lists, and tracks significant research and development in the battery and energy supply sector and organizes them based on Market, Industry Application, Location and Sector
We are a technology frontier for the ‘first consumer’ – researchers, firms, policy makers, investors, consumers – who are at the forefront of getting the big picture of the fast developing RE economy, its structure and the utility of new technologies, as markets transition to net zero emissions.
The B|ESSTf technology frontier is a four-quadrant market that begins with RE technology 1) Research and 2) Location, where it is conducted, that leads to a 3) Technological Innovation-imbedded product by 4) Industry. This traces RE technology from the research and development stages and on to the scale-up, and to the resultant finished, market-ready and installed product.
It is a useful if not essential tool, a heuristic mechanism, if you will, with which to follow and keep abreast of fast-paced developing markets and the alteration and transformation of existing ones that grew out of research conducted for a book, titled, Environmental Risk Mitigation: Coaxing a Market in the Battery and Energy Supply and Storage Industry, published in October 2016. Tracing this process aims to help to smooth the way, thereby quicken, viable RE product development.
Each entrant, be it a proof-of-concept research finding, a RE technology-embedded product in development, on to a finished, market-ready product and then an installed product meets respective viability criteria, be it, the number of citations and reporting of a research finding, the reported viability of a demonstration or pilot project, and on to the number of installations of a new RE technology-embedded product by end user industry, say an original equipment manufacturer|OEM or utility company. In all, each entrant meets a utility, range, efficiency, and/or a market scale requirement.
For example, a viable battery technology installed in a market ready product, say an electric vehicle battery|EVB in a battery electric vehicle|BEV, will yield as many entrants, OEMs as have adopted this new battery technology. In this case, the ‘location’ of the RE technology is a cross-industry relationship between battery supplier and OEM.
Moreover, these RE economy requirements, even the industry to which the RE technology is applicable, may change over time. For example, a RE technology may initially be applicable to and employed in any number stationary ESS industries and then, over time, have extended to and been employed in mobile ESS industries. Or, a portable RE technology may extend into mobile, RE transport industries.
We are always open to B|ESSTf frontier entrant proposals. So, please send them to us for possible inclusion on the list.
The decision to include a RE technology research, its application and market ‘place’, if you will, on the B|ESSTf 300 list is made by people familiar with the big picture, the emerging RE economy, and the technologies that are most quickly developing it. Again, we welcome input and suggestions on the compilation of the B|ESSTf 300. Drop us a line in the Contact Form below!
The Battery and Energy Supply and Storage Frontier (B|ESSTFrontier) is part of a environmental risk mitigating market research project. This clean energy technology frontier is published in Environmental Risk Mitigation – Coaxing a Market in the B|ESST Industry (Palgrave Macmillan)
