Renewable energy firm RES and battery storage developer SCR have partnered to deploy another grid-scale battery storage project in Sweden, this time totalling 17MW.

Battery OEM Rept Battero, part of metals firm Tsingshan Industry, has tied up with Energy Vault a few weeks after it agreed a smaller deal with Powin.

Sungrow has received a Certificate of Approval (COA) in New York City for its Powertitan battery storage solution, joining just a handful of other approved products on a list produced by the city’s fire department.

Developer BlueWave talked Energy-Storage.news through the opportunities for energy storage in ISO New England (ISO-NE), one of only a few markets where ancillary services are not part of the long-term value stack.

BMW has partnered with a California utility to test out vehicle-to-X technologies, while fellow carmaker Volvo has invested in a bi-directional charging solutions provider.

UK energy storage investor Gresham House and the clean energy arm of utility NextEra have moved forward with battery storage projects in California, US.

Masdar has signed a joint development agreement (JDA) with the Uzbekistan government to develop more than 2GW of solar and wind projects.

European lithium-ion gigafactory firm Northvolt has completed construction of its energy storage system (ESS) production facility in Poland and expects to start production by the end of 2023.

Japan’s Marubeni Corporation working with Vietnamese battery and energy-as-a-service provider VinES to develop energy storage facilities.

Canadian Solar shipped just 18MWh of energy storage in the first three months of the year, while growing its contracted revenues for the segment to US$1.3 billion.