Proposed changes to rules and regulations will strengthen the Philippines’ position as leading energy storage market in the ASEAN region.

The US’ installed base of large-scale battery storage systems is expected to double in megawatt terms during 2023.

Hecate Grid, an independent power producer (IPP) developing utility-scale battery storage assets, has raised US$98.9 million through lenders.

Energy Networks Association has called on UK government to update energy security strategy to include energy storage by the end of 2023.

Portugal-based utility EDP has received clearance to deploy a 1MWh vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) system as part of a hybrid energy storage project at the site of a retiring gas plant in Asturias, Spain.

Slovenia state-owned utility Dravske elektrarne Maribor (DEM) is planning two battery storage units totalling 60MW as well as a pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) plant.

US Senator Joe Manchin and fellow bipartisan colleagues have urged the Biden Administration to invest more in non-lithium energy storage technologies, while DOE Loan Programs Office head Jigar Shah expects companies developing the latter to broadly secure 1GWh orders this year.

Wind and solar PV paired with energy storage cost-competitive against gas in Ontario and Alberta, according to study from Clean Energy Canada.

B2U Storage Solutions has further expanded its in-house second life energy storage project in California to 25MWh, an alternative approach to peers which president Freeman Hall explained to Energy-Storage.news.

Singapore-based VFlowTech has raised a US$10 million Series A to set up a manufacturing facility and scale up production of its 250kWh vanadium flow battery product.