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  1. Three 100 MW-class battery storage case studies show frequency-regulation revenue and policy financing drive deployment, while thermal-runaway fires and missing standards hold it back

    Using a qualitative literature review plus multi-case comparison of three operating projects above 100 MW — Hornsdale Power Reserve (100 MW/129 MWh), Gateway Energy Storage (250 MW) and Victorian Big Battery (300 MW) — the study analyzes how battery energy storage systems (BESS) provide frequency regulation, peak shaving, renewable firming, voltage support and black start in smart grids, and identifies drivers such as public–private partnerships, FCAS and arbitrage revenue and green-bank financing, alongside barriers such as thermal-runaway fires, cooling-system failure, siting disputes, missing regulatory standards and high initial capital cost.

  2. Cathode lithium-rich compensators for next-generation lithium-ion batteries: classification framework, challenges, and synergistic prelithiation strategies

    This review addresses active lithium loss during the initial cycling and long-term operation of lithium-ion batteries by establishing a classification framework for cathode lithium-rich compensators (LRCs) based on lithium compensation mechanisms, covering binary, ternary, over-lithiated, sacrificial lithium salt, and sustained-release types; it systematically summarizes their working principles, typical charge compensation pathways, and practical performance, discusses key challenges including air instability, gas evolution, high delithiation voltage, and processing issues, highlights mitigation strategies involving nanoscale engineering, surface coating, defect and doping design, and electrolyte optimization, and further proposes a synergistic multimodal lithium-compensation strategy int

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