Welcome to our spring edition of Batteries International!
This is very much a special issue as we take a look at innovations in both the lead battery sector — we highlight all eight of this year’s entrants for the BCI innovation award — and alternative chemistries which, one day at least, might toll the death knell for the lithium battery in large scale applications.
The battery industry is all about people and we’ve been pleased to interview Kevin Moran, the new EVP at Battery Council International and Mark Thorsby who steps down from the post after a highly successful seven years in the office.
In addition to our regular coverage of news and products, S&P Global Ratings — an agency that rates the financial health of all the world’s major business and government institutions — has written us a special feature discussing the viability of the changing face of the US power grid.
With the conference season in full swing, I hope to see you at some of these events in the near future