I have been playing about with tmux today, trying to customised a little here and there, managed to get battery info displaying on the status right with a ruby script.
Copy the ruby script from http://natedickson.com/blog/2013/04/30/battery-status-in-tmux/ and save it as:
battinfo.rb in ~/bin
To make it executable make sure to run:
chmod +x ~/bin/battinfo.rb
edit your ~/.tmux.config and include this line
set -g status-right "#[fg=colour155]#(pmset -g batt | ~/bin/battinfo.rb) | #[fg=colour45]%d %b %R"