Powin Energy is the latest international company to target rising opportunities in India.

e-Zinc, which claims its zinc metal-based battery technology could provide low-cost, long-duration energy storage has raised US$25 million. 

A 214 acre site which will host a battery cell gigafactory in Arizona, US, has been acquired by KORE Power.

Technologies from US V2G solutions company Nuvve and NGK’s sodium sulfur batteries will provide ancillary services and other grid stability applications in Japan. 

EU-supported European Battery Alliance (EBA) will roll out a newly updated action plan to enable 90% of the Union’s demand for batteries to be met with domestically made products by 2030.

One of the world’s biggest vanadium redox flow battery energy storage systems has come online on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.

The government of Western Australia is funding work to assess a potential battery energy storage system (BESS) project which would be the biggest built in the state so far.

EV batteries made by Mercedes-Benz will be given a new lease of life in stationary energy storage systems (ESS). 

Fluence has formed a partnership with TECO Group to pursue energy storage opportunities in Taiwan’s growing market.

News in brief from around the world in energy storage, this time with a distinctly UK flavour.