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As heatwaves scorched Europe this summer, workers at a US battery company noticed an uptick in demand.
San Diego-based Unigrid sells a nine kilowatt hour battery for people's homes. Sweltering European homeowners were apparently looking for ways of storing power when it was available…
The extreme temperatures that have gripped Europe have opened the door to a new market in energy storage. Demand for a new generation of batteries that store electricity in cheap hours and put it into operation at a time when air conditioning is growing rapidly, competition between the US and China in sodium-ion technology, touted as an alternative to lithium, is also heating up.