While we’re waiting to get started up for what looks like being a busier year than ever in 2022, let’s look back as we reveal the most-read blogs and features for 2021.

Let’s take a look now and see which news stories were most read during 2021 here on the site.

For this third instalment of our look back at 2021, we’ve something of a mixture of views from around the industry.

Bringing you the thoughts of leaders from across the industry in our series of end-of-year blogs.

Ahead of a merger between the Energy Storage Association and American Clean Power Association, Energy-Storage.news speaks to the leaders of both.

Energy-Storage.news spoke to FlexGen CEO Kelcy Pegler about the company’s deal to provide battery energy storage technology and software for a 2,150MWh three-site project in southern California. 

A US$25 million virtual power plant (VPP) programme has been launched in Perth, Western Australia, while in the US, technology providers Enphase, Sunverge and LG have announced their involvement in VPPs in Arizona and California. 

Three recent interesting steps forward on lithium battery sustainability, a growing concern and area of interest for the clean energy sector. 

Now that the infrastructure deal finally looks to be in the bag, what does it really mean and what does the energy storage industry think about it? Energy-Storage.news gathered some views. 

Honeywell has created a flow battery which it will deploy in pilot projects of increasing size starting next year. Honeywell Sustainable Technology Solutions (Honeywell STS) vice president and general manager Ben Owens spoke with Energy-Storage.news about it.