The National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration have issued the 15th Five-Year Plan Implementation Plan for New-Type Energy Storage, setting out a scientific roadmap for innovation in new-type energy storage. The plan calls for accelerating the iterative upgrading of lithium-ion battery storage and scaling up the deployment of sodium-ion battery storage; moving compressed-air, flow-battery and flywheel storage from pilot projects to commercialization; encouraging pilot applications of technologies such as supercapacitors, compressed carbon dioxide, liquid air, gravity energy storage and molten-salt heat storage; and supporting the build-up of reserves in cutting-edge technologies including solid-state batteries, heat-pump electricity storage, thermal energy storage and hydrogen energy storage.
