Italy-headquartered solar inverter manufacturer FIMER supplied 1MVA inverters to a solar-plus-storage project with a 18MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Gujarat, India.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has formally launched a US$3.16 billion grant funding opportunity for its domestic battery supply chain, the latest in a series of moves to support the sector.

FreeWire Technologies, a battery-integrated EV charging solution provider, has raised US$125 million in new capital from global asset manager BlackRock and other investors.

The Energy Regulatory Office (ERO) of Kosovo is reviewing an application to build a 250MW pumped hydro storage facility.

Energy storage solutions provider Convergent Energy + Power has brought three more solar-plus-storage projects totalling 8MWh of energy capacity online in the US state of Maryland.

EStor-Lux, Belgium’s battery energy storage system (BESS) at 10MW/20MWh, was officially inaugurated on Tuesday (26 April).

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US commercial real estate firm Stream Realty Partners is partnering with independent power producer Catalyze to deploy over 450MW of solar and battery storage projects across its property portfolio.

London-listed energy storage investor Gore Street Capital CEO Alex O’Cinneide discussed its fund’s recent expansion outside UK/Ireland and which markets are most of interest, in an interview with Energy-storage.news.

The US Department of Energy Loan Programs Office has committed US$504 million to a 300GWh hydrogen storage project in Utah and another US$107 million to a graphite facility in Louisiana.