A public consultation regarding the auction will be launched in the coming days, while capacity and funding details have yet to be disclosed.

A project in China, claimed as the largest flywheel energy storage system in the world, has been connected to the grid.

Indian battery manufacturer Delectrick Systems has launched a new 10MWh vanadium flow battery-based energy storage system (ESS) to support large-scale and utility-scale projects.

Three-quarters of the lithium-ion battery supply chain could have exposure to forced labour, contravening US and EU laws and potentially leading to products being blocked from those markets, a report said.

Stem Inc has seen its CEO step down while Energy Vault has been warned by the NYSE over its low share price, in a double helping of unfortunate announcements from SPAC-listed energy storage firms.

DNO and IPP Electrica has received €3.4 million (US$3.8 million) in EU grants for a c.70MWh BESS project it will build in Romania.

EDP Renewables North America (EDPR NA) has secured a long-term contract with Dominion Energy to develop an 85MW/340MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Virginia, US.

System integrator and project developer On.Energy has acquired nine in-development battery energy storage projects, which will play into California’s CAISO market.

It was a busy week of news in the UK’s grid-scale energy storage market last week, with BESS projects put into operation by Eku Energy and Harmony Energy Income Trust (HEIT), and projects in the gigawatt-hour scale announced by ESB and Apatura in Scotland.

Pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) developer Queensland Hydro has revealed a flurry of contracts today (17 September) to help progress the development of its 2GW Borumba project in Australia.