Electric vehicles have been used to help balance the grid in what has been dubbed a first for vehicle-to-grid tech in the UK.

The construction of battery cell factories catering specifically for stationary energy storage means competition for supply with the EV sector will cool off in the next couple of years.

AMTE Power, a UK-based manufacturer of batteries, has said its new sodium-ion cells are close to being ready to send out into the field for testing and validation.

A 100MW/150MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) has been brought online in Queensland, Australia, by developer Vena Energy.

Key Capture Energy is approaching the final stages of construction of a battery storage system in New York that will inform how the developer approaches much bigger projects in the state.

Lithium-ion battery factory serving EV and ESS sectors has opened in New York State which could ramp-up to 38GWh annual production capacity.

Canadian Solar’s manufacturing subsidiary CSI Solar’s battery storage shipments exceeded the 1GWh mark in the first half of 2022.

The signing of the Inflation Reduction Act by US president Joe Biden has been considered a major step forward for clean energy.

A 1.8MWh flow battery has been installed and energised at the European Marine Energy Centre test site in Scotland’s Orkney Isles.

This edition of news in brief focuses on recent developments in the US distributed energy resources (DER) market.