South Africa continues its push for energy storage capacity, with utility and grid operator Eskom issuing a call to work on a 21GWh pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) project.
Europe is no longer betting on second-life repurposing of EV batteries for stationary BESS applications, and that is not a bad thing, argues David Oudsandji, CEO of Voltfang.
Valo, the new joint venture formed as a continuation of Wärtsilä’s energy storage business, is weighing up investing in the US supply chain, including factories.
South Africa’s government has put battery storage and power-to-gas technologies at the heart of the national long-term electricity supply and demand strategy.
Finland is the Nordic region’s most-talked-about market for the moment, with project deals and other battery storage development activity from local and international players.
South Korea’s Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment (MCEE) has unveiled its KRW1,000 trillion (US$747 billion) Korean Green Transformation (K-GX) industrial strategy.
AI data centres have energy and power requirements demanding enough to potentially stretch lithium-ion beyond its versatile limits, writes Intertek CEA market intelligence consultant Aaron Marks.
UK market’s shifting dynamics see listed fund Gore Street’s shareholders take key vote while CIP and BW ESS progress 4-hour duration battery storage assets at significant scale.
