The government of Queensland, Australia, will invest in 48MW/96MWh of distributed battery storage and trial the use of flow batteries to integrate rooftop PV generation into local networks.
Battery storage is playing an active role in helping New York City retire its fleet of peaker power plants, with around 700MW of its most polluting power generation assets already fully retired.
As India’s Union government prepares the fiscal year 2024-2025 budget for its unveiling, trade group India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA) has offered some recommendations to support the technology.
Europe-based sodium-ion battery technology firms Tiamat and Altris have secured a total of €29 million (US$31.5 million) in new funding, from a fundraise round and the Swedish state respectively.
SK Gas and SK D&D, two companies in the South Korean SK Group conglomerate, have entered a joint venture (JV) for the ownership of energy storage facilities in the US with Apex Clean Energy.
The government of Turkey, currently processing applications for large-scale energy storage facilities at renewable energy plants, will raise import duties for lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery products.
