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Energy storage helps solve UK’s renewable energy puzzle: What’s making this ‘simple idea’ complicated?

Energy storage is a key enabler of net zero emissions in the UK, but some unresolved challenges still make it a complex sector to navigate, as Antonia Silvestri and Gary Roscoe, partners at law firm TLT, explain.

LG Energy Solution’s six-year deal ‘signals importance of securing lithium supply’ for ESS industry

A six-year lithium off-take contract signed by LG Energy Solution and supplier Sigma Lithium “signals the importance of securing lithium supply and the importance of ESG,” an industry supply chain expert has said.

Northvolt’s US$750m R&D campus will directly benefit battery manufacturer’s grid-storage efforts

Northvolt has announced an expansion to its R&D centre in Sweden which will turn the facility into “Europe’s leading campus for battery technologies”.

ESS Inc becomes ‘US’ first publicly-traded long-duration energy storage company’

Shares and warrants of iron flow battery provider ESS Inc have commenced trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

VIDEO: Why Greece is becoming an energy storage market hub for Europe

Energy-Storage.news proudly presents this sponsored webinar with consultancy Clean Horizon, discussing why Greece can be an important European market for energy storage.

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Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority readying renewables and energy storage Request for Proposals

October 20, 2021

Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) has sought approval for the launch of its latest Request for Proposals (RfP) for renewable energy and energy storage resources.

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Fluence’s IPO could raise US$750 million, trebling company’s billion-dollar+ valuation

October 20, 2021

Fluence could raise more than US$700 million from the planned initial public offering (IPO) of its Class A common stock which would be listed on the Nasdaq Global Market.

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‘Huge achievement’ as 50MW battery system is first to export to UK grid from tertiary connection

October 20, 2021

Pivot Power’s 50MW/50MWh lithium-ion battery storage site in Oxford is the first tertiary connection in the UK to export to the grid.

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NHOA awarded contract for Western Australia’s biggest BESS, at decommissioned coal plant

October 20, 2021

Further details of a 200MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) contract awarded to New HOrizons Ahead (NHOA) in Australia have been revealed.

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Energy Vault asks investors to bet on pre-commercial gravity storage tech ahead of NYSE listing

October 19, 2021

Special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Novus Capital Corporation II chose to merge with novel gravity and kinetic energy-based storage Energy Vault after receiving target proposals from more than 100 different firms.

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Huawei signs 1,300MWh solar-charged battery contract for Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Project

October 19, 2021

Huawei Digital Power has said it will supply battery energy storage system (BESS) technology to what is thought to be the world’s largest off-grid energy storage project to date.

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Off-grid energy system tender could play ‘crucial role’ in rural Western Australia’s future

October 19, 2021

Western Australia’s state-owned electricity network operator is tendering for a “disconnected microgrid” project which could be replicated if successful, to cost-effectively give rural communities reliable and safe power supplies.

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Swell Energy, sonnen turn household solar storage into grid assets in California and Utah

October 18, 2021

Virtual power plant (VPP) company Swell Energy and battery storage provider sonnen have both announced deals that will turn thousands of residential solar-powered energy storage systems into valuable resources for their local grid network.

Features, Interviews

Discovery and invention: How the vanadium flow battery story began

October 18, 2021

Andy Colthorpe speaks to Maria Skyllas-Kazacos, one of the original inventors of the vanadium redox flow battery, about the origins of the technology and its progression.

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New Zealand’s first grid-scale battery storage system project nears start of construction

October 18, 2021

Power distribution company WEL Networks and renewables developer Infratec are in the final stages of assessment for what will be New Zealand’s first utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS).

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Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority readying renewables and energy storage Request for Proposals

Fluence’s IPO could raise US$750 million, trebling company’s billion-dollar+ valuation

‘Huge achievement’ as 50MW battery system is first to export to UK grid from tertiary connection

NHOA awarded contract for Western Australia’s biggest BESS, at decommissioned coal plant

Energy Vault asks investors to bet on pre-commercial gravity storage tech ahead of NYSE listing

Huawei signs 1,300MWh solar-charged battery contract for Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Project

Off-grid energy system tender could play ‘crucial role’ in rural Western Australia’s future

Swell Energy, sonnen turn household solar storage into grid assets in California and Utah

Discovery and invention: How the vanadium flow battery story began

New Zealand’s first grid-scale battery storage system project nears start of construction

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Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority readying renewables and energy storage Request for Proposals

Fluence’s IPO could raise US$750 million, trebling company’s billion-dollar+ valuation

‘Huge achievement’ as 50MW battery system is first to export to UK grid from tertiary connection

NHOA awarded contract for Western Australia’s biggest BESS, at decommissioned coal plant

Energy Vault asks investors to bet on pre-commercial gravity storage tech ahead of NYSE listing

Huawei signs 1,300MWh solar-charged battery contract for Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Project

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Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority readying renewables and energy storage Request for Proposals

Fluence’s IPO could raise US$750 million, trebling company’s billion-dollar+ valuation

NHOA awarded contract for Western Australia’s biggest BESS, at decommissioned coal plant

Energy Vault asks investors to bet on pre-commercial gravity storage tech ahead of NYSE listing

Commercial

US distributed energy tech platform companies AutoGrid, Leap, raise US$117m funding

Microgrids save businesses money and battery storage is the ‘key hardware technology’

Strategic about energy storage: Enel X is taking learnings from North America to rest of world

South America’s first virtual power plant part of Stem Inc’s strategy to gain foothold in Chile

Residential

Swell Energy, sonnen turn household solar storage into grid assets in California and Utah

Sunnova, AutoGrid create residential virtual power plant for California community energy supplier CPA

Generac adds ability sell power back to grid to its home battery storage systems

Australian community battery VPP trial will put ‘batteries on poles’ across electric distribution network