Superdielectrics, who combine electric fields and conventional chemical storage to create a new aqueous polymer-based energy storage technologies, has formally launched the Faraday 1.

The technology behind Faraday 1 has completed over one million hours of testing to create a system that already has the ability to significantly outperform lead-acid batteries and has the potential, with further development, to match or better existing Lithium-ion batteries.

Systems like this require economically viable energy storage. The energy storage market is currently dominated by lithium-ion and lead-acid batteries. The Company’s patented new polymer-based energy storage technology solves the issue of dealing with rapidly fluctuating and intermittent renewable energy which makes it difficult to currently store solar and wind energy economically.

Professor Fermin, Head of the Bristol Electrochemistry and Solar Team and Net Zero Ambassador for the University of Bristol, worked with a team of Bristol engineers, examining the performance of prototype devices and unravelling the mechanisms involved in the storage and release of energy.