Growing populations – about 80 million every year – and industrializing countries create huge needs for electrical energy. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA) the global energy demand will increase by about 65% by 2035. A major fraction of the required energy will continue to be provided by thermal – mainly fossil fuel-fired and nuclear – power plants. "Renewable" energy sources such as photovoltaics (PV) will be another backbone of our energy supply. Putting renewable energy on the grid requires powerful energy storage and conversion devices, such as supercapacitors, batteries, or fuel cells.
For these technologies to work at maximum efficiency, all constituents of power installations have to perform at the highest level: be it the monitoring of the water chemistry in thermal power plants, the wet chemical processing of solar cells and battery electrolytes, or electrochemical measurements of energy storage devices, Metrohm provides the adequate analytical solution.