Startup ZincFive, maker of a novel nickel-zinc battery for stationary storage applications, has brought its total investment raised since founding seven years ago to more than US$200 million.
Developers Emeren and Matrix Renewables, part of private equity firm TPG, intend to launch a development service agreement (DSA) for 1.5GW of battery storage in Italy.
Rondo Energy, which counts Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures among its investors, intends to scale up annual production capacity of its thermal storage tech to 90GWh.
We caught up with Cling Systems, a B2B trading platform for end-of-life lithium-ion batteries which has seen 400MWh of volumes in aggregate for second life energy storage to-date.
BESS projects in ERCOT, Texas, will be hit by a double whammy of market saturation and new rules around minimum state-of-charge (SOC), as the technology helps the state battle a severe heatwave.