Engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) firm Burns & McDonnell is providing EPC services for Texas Waves II, a 30MW battery energy storage system (BESS) by RWE.

Australia-based zinc-bromine flow battery company Redflow, which has a market cap of nearly US$60 million, has halted stock market trading as it prepares a capital raise.

Norwegian renewable energy investor Magnora and the Alberta Investment Management Corporation have moved into the UK battery storage market.

State-owned Estonian energy company Eesti Energia is planning to build a 225MW pumped hydro energy storage facility, as part of a wider push to become independent of Russian energy.

Revolve Renewable Power received approval to build 250MW project on land managed by the US Bureau of Land Management in Arizona.

The US government Department of Energy is looking for public input into how US$675 million of funding for R&D into Critical Materials should be best directed.

The first battery energy storage system (BESS) in New York City using Tesla Megapacks, a 12MWh system in the Bronx by NineDot, has been inaugurated.

SPAC Mustang Energy PLC is increasing its effective stake in CellCube to around 25% while a company launching a vanadium mine project in Australia has injected US$3.5 million in a new flow battery maker.

Australian startup MGA Thermal has bagged around US$1 million in government funding for a 5MWh thermal energy storage project while Israel-based Brenmiller Energy has inaugurated a 1MWh unit in Brazil.

Construction has begun on two large-scale solar projects paired with battery storage in Hawaii from AES Corporation.