As 2024 comes to a close, the flurry of corporate announcements includes several coming from sodium-ion battery manufacturers – indicating that lithium’s dominance is going to become less total by 2030. Shuanghuan Science and Technology is one of them, announcing a 100,000-ton sodium carbonate factory for the energy storage segment – enough to make perhaps 5 GWh or 10 GWh of batteries, depending on their energy density. And last week we mentioned a new 2.5 GWh vanadium-flow factory – also in China. Outside of China, alternative technologies are always a possible way to reshore manufacturing in the face of China’s more established green energy manufacturing in conventional technologies. And that’s one reason why this past week also saw the US…