Lithium Grid News: As we all know, lithium batteries have triggered the electric car revolution. Many projections suggest that the lifetime cost of owning and driving an electric car can be compared to a fuel car in a few years, which has led to a surge in electric vehicle sales in the 2020s and became mainstream in the 2030s. Since 2015, lithium prices have tripled. Lithium mines have of course been on the vents and are expanding significantly. But investment banks have also begun to warn lithium mines about the risk of oversupply.

Lithium battery whether the investment boom has become a thing of the past? Many investors do not believe this conclusion. "Stationary storage" is becoming their new buzzword, and they hope it could become a bigger driver in the energy market than electric cars. Large energy storage batteries are rushing to the next vent?

Tesla finds "new highlights"
Fixed energy storage systems typically refer to battery storage solutions using technologies such as lead acid, nickel cadmium, or lithium ions. This system can store excess power for peak demand periods.

In fact, although Tesla has been working hard to increase the production of its Type 3 electric vehicles , Allen Musk said at the company's annual shareholder meeting last month that the fixed energy storage system has become a new business highlight.

“The speed of fixed energy storage systems will grow exponentially,” Musk said. “For many years to come, every year will grow as much as in previous years. This is a crazy, crazy growth rate.”

To date, Tesla has built a 1 GWh energy storage system, almost half of the world's 2.3 GWh fixed energy storage system last year.

Angela East wrote that on Stockhead, currently stationary energy storage systems market is still lagging behind the electric car market, but it could become ASX listed lithium battery main drivers of the pool, and further lead to other investors in the energy storage battery metals such as vanadium and Zinc interest.

According to Arthur D. Little, a French-based management consultancy, the battery market will rise from $60 billion in 2015 to more than $90 billion by 2025. The growing reliance on renewable energy battery storage is driving "huge" demand.

In the past two years, more than $13.7 billion in related investments and acquisitions have been completed in this area. These investments include Japanese chemical company Asahi Kasei acquiring battery separator manufacturer Polypore for $2.2 billion, French oil and gas giant Total to acquire battery manufacturer Saft, and AES and Siemens to form Fluence energy storage joint venture.

"Australian pioneer"
The Australian government issued a report on “Responsibility: Energy Storage Opportunities in Australia” on Friday, which stated that Australia is a leader in energy storage.

Ravi Manghani, research director at Wood Mackenzie Power and Renewables, said: "Australia is the world's largest residential energy storage market in 2017, and residential energy storage has tripled over the previous year."

In 2017, Tesla built a large lithium battery project with a capacity of up to 100 megawatts in South Australia to address power supply issues in the region. The system went live in the first quarter of 2018 and, by far, it is the world's largest lithium battery system.

Last month, the NSW government installed a set of Tesla batteries, powered by about 1600 solar panels, and was able to store 500 kilowatt-hours of electricity, powering 50 homes throughout the day. Sydney Mayor Clover Moore said that Sydney's goal is to generate 50% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030, and all of Sydney's municipal buildings will have a total of 1.5 megawatts of battery storage capacity in the future.

The Victorian government has launched its own $25 million energy storage program and has locked in two projects so far.

“We expect Australia's front-end storage market to be 2.5 GWh in the five years from 2018 to 2025,” Manghani said.

Chinese automaker BYD is building the world's largest battery plant in Qinghai, increasing its total capacity to 60 GWh by 2020.

Bloomberg New Energy Finance believes that investment in this area will reach $548 billion by 2050, two-thirds of capacity at the grid level, and one-third capacity at the home and business levels.

Since the beginning of this year, ASX's new energy battery concept stocks have performed poorly overall, but they also have outstanding talents. Adriatic Metals (ASX:ADT) was listed on ASX on May 1st, and its share price reached three times the price of IPO at its peak. It has risen by 115% compared to IPO. The company is exploring the Veovaca and Rupice zinc projects in Bosnia and has discovered zinc resources with a grade of up to 30%.