Scaling up net zero-enabling battery storage technologies will require financiers and investors to share risks with developers, such as those over supply chain.

Projects using novel, non-lithium battery technology have been progressed by organic flow battery firm CMBlu, liquid metal battery firm Ambri, and the NAS battery division of NGK Insulators.

Recent reports on the energy storage auction in Greece shows that “players are willing to take risks” to get into the market, an analyst from research firm Clean Horizon told Energy-Storage.news.

Corporate funding into battery storage companies rebounded in Q2, but remains lower than in 2022 or 2021 so far.

A US$12 million Series B2 has been raised by California-based battery analytics firm Peaxy, which specialises in “first mile data challenges”, a spokesperson told Energy-Storage.news.

New South Wales has granted planning approval for battery energy storage system projects in the Australian state’s Renewable Energy Zones.

Renewable energy firm Greenvolt Power has acquired an early-stage co-located project in New Mexico, US, with a 50MW of energy storage.

New York’s electricity market operator is evaluating the role energy storage technologies could play as part of the transmission network.

Developer Jupiter Power has announced US$70.4 million in loan financing for two battery storage projects in ERCOT, Texas, arranged by First Citizens Bank.

The commercial manager for Balance Power, one of two UK developers to have announced project approvals this week, has questioned whether the market standard 2-hour duration is enough for net zero.