The global need for grid-scale energy storage will rise rapidly in the coming years as the transition away from fossil fuels accelerates.

Battery storage can enhance the operation of power plant fleets, whether wind, solar, coal, gas or almost any other technology.  

“Overall we are very happy with the direction of the budget,” says Dr Rahul Walawalkar, president of the India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA).

Australia and New York are two very different places but both are likely to soon see their first government-backed tenders in which grid-scale energy storage can compete.

Solar Media Market Research analyst Mollie McCorkindale offers insight into the market’s progress in 2022, another record-breaking year.

European policy makers need to strengthen the role of flexibility technologies, write Fluence’s Julian Jansen and Lars Stephan.

Gigawatt-hours of used EV batteries are now hitting the market, and California-based Element Energy claims it has the ideal BMS platform to scale second life energy storage technology.

We interview three companies getting around one of the main challenges of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology.

A handful of companies are trying to get in early and design and deploy ‘second life’ energy storage units using EV batteries ahead of an expected boom in supply in the second half of the 2020s.

Mateo Jaramillo, CEO of long-duration energy storage startup Form Energy responds to our questions on 2022 and the year ahead.