Sodium-ion battery technology could be the “perfect solution for applications where energy density is not paramount,” according to the chief executive of battery tech company BMZ Group.

The UK’s House of Lords Science and Technology Committee has said government must make “major decisions about future energy infrastructure”.

Kai-Philipp Kairies, CEO of analytics firm ACCURE, discusses some of the areas in which battery analytics can have the most impact on battery energy storage system (BESS) project success.

Rooftop solar and utility-scale energy storage growth led renewable energy to fulfil almost 40% of Australia’s electricity supply in 2023.

ib vogt has sold rights to a large-scale 1-hour duration battery storage project in Finland, Europe, to investor Renewable Power Capital (RPC).

Fluence will supply batteries for a 150MW/300MWh battery storage project for SSE Renewables at Fiddler’s Ferry, Warrington, UK.

Longroad Energy has achieved financial close on a large-scale solar PV and battery storage project in Arizona, US, on which construction is already underway.

Gridstor, a developer of standalone battery energy storage system (BESS) assets, has acquired a 450MW/900MWh project in Texas, US, the company’s first in the booming ERCOT market.

Atlas Renewable Energy has signed a PPA with state-owned mining company Codelco to deliver 375GWh a year from a solar-plus-storage project in Chile.

Despite geopolitical unrest, the global energy storage system market doubled in 2023 by gigawatt-hours installed. Dan Shreve of Clean Energy Associates looks at the pricing dynamics helping propel storage to ever greater heights.