Who hosted it
HiTHIUM hosted the inaugural Global Energy Storage Colloquium in Xiamen, with the Energy Storage Application Branch of the China Industrial Association of Power Sources as co-organiser. The company said the three-day event brought together international experts, scholars and industry representatives under the theme "Frontiers in Dialogue•Powering Tomorrow's Storage."
The topics on the table
Sessions covered battery materials, energy storage technologies, power electronics, system applications and industrial innovation. Academic discussions addressed battery mechanisms and characterisation, degradation and lifetime prediction for grid-scale lithium-ion batteries, power system stability where inverter-based resources make up a large share of supply, and virtual power plants. Experts also discussed real-time non-destructive battery testing, early warning of thermal runaway, storage opportunities at distribution transformer areas and revenue from electricity market participation.
The participants
Those attending included representatives of Imperial College London, the University of Cambridge, Tsinghua University, Xiamen University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology and City University of Hong Kong. Clare Grey of Cambridge, Tim Green of Imperial College London, Shigang Sun and Yong Yang of Xiamen University, and Chongqing Kang of Tsinghua University served as co-chairs, with Yunhui Huang of Huazhong University of Science and Technology as chief advisor. Maochun Hong of the Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter attended.
What the company says
Jeff Wu, founder and chairman of HiTHIUM, said energy storage is a systemic technology spanning multiple disciplines and sectors, and that progress depends on breakthroughs in fundamental research and international collaboration. According to the release, the company will keep supporting the colloquium as a platform for exchange and hopes to expand cooperation with universities and research institutions worldwide. Yong Liu, vice chair of CESA, and Kate Harrisson, His Majesty's Trade Commissioner for China and Hong Kong, also gave remarks. Scholars visited HiTHIUM's smart factory in Xiamen during the event.
