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⚡Volta Report: Five Aqueous Highlights
Read These Slides First
Stuck searching through this year’s Volta Annual Battery Report to find the aqueous storage content? We’ve got you covered. Below are five sections with a clear slant from our corner of the industry:
- Slide 402: Flow battery pilots in 2025
- Slide 406: Flow pilots that came online in 2025
- Slide 407: Comparing performance of zinc batteries to lithium-ion
- Slide 413: Commercial Zinc battery makers scaling manufacturing
- Slide 416: Lead-acid market outlook
Of course, don’t just stop there. Catch loads of resources and insights to help you plan a stronger 2026 in the latest Report.
Other Aqueous Deep Dives
Listen: ZincFive for the AI Era
ZincFive’s vice president of global sales and product management, Brandon Smith, sits down for a talk about why nickel-zinc battery chemistry is built for the AI era on the Battery + Storage podcast from law firm Troutman Pepper Locke. Listen now.
ICYMI: Specialized Separators for Aqueous Technologies
Delfort Specialty Paper’s Daniel Fischer explains how the company’s fiber-based separators support aqueous battery developer goals — including solutions for wet strength and wettability across acidic and alkaline electrolytes, and 200M+ square meters of annual production capacity. It’s all in Octet’s latest Aqueous Energy interview — click below to watch now.
🎥 Watch in Octet’s latest Aqueous Energy interview.
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Mark Your Calendars
ICYMI: Upcoming 2026 Aqueous Events
📆 Get a head start on 2026 planning with our Aqueous Energy Events Calendar in our December 29th Aqueous Battery Brief.
Five Chances to Hear Octet
Catch the Octet team presenting at four events (so far) in 2026:
- NAATBatt 2026: Charging Innovation • Feb 9 – 12 / Tucson, Arizona, USA
- TechBlick: Batteries Reshaped 2026 • Feb 11 – 12 / Virtual Meeting
- International Battery Seminar & Exhibit • Mar 23 – 26 / Orlando, Florida, USA
- BCI Convention + Power Mart Expo • May 3 – 6 / Nashville, Tennessee, USA
We’ll see you soon.
Who’s Hiring
Seeking a new role — or know someone who is? Start with the quick links to aqueous firms’ open roles pages and specific roles below.
👩🔬 Open Roles Pages (Multiple Roles)
👨🔬 Specific Openings
- Urban Electric Power: Mechanical Engineer – Battery Cell & Module Development
- Æsir Technologies is looking to fill multiple engineering roles. Interested candidates should send resumes to Æsir’s Employment Page.
Have a specific open position you’d like to highlight? Send us an e-mail.
Octet Case Study: Over $80M in Projected Gains
Learn how Octet Scientific uncovered the path to unprecedented growth for a single battery firm — made possible by 75 screened electrolytes.
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