As Virginia’s push towards one of the country’s most ambitious energy storage targets gets underway, pilot battery storage projects have been brought online.

South Africa’s primary electricity supplier Eskom has announced details of forthcoming major battery storage deployments.

Mobile battery storage rental company Greener Power Solutions plans to diversify its supply base away Alfen and has already bought a unit from Northvolt.

Broad Reach Power is the latest US battery storage industry player to announce US$100 million or more in financing over the past few weeks.

Startup Spearmint Energy has become the latest developer to acquire a large-scale battery storage project in Texas.

European energy storage is still held back by regulation but Greece is a bit further ahead, specialist battery insurance group Altelium told Energy-Storage.news while discussing take-up of its new product.

VoltStorage, a developer and maker of energy storage systems using vanadium flow batteries, has raised €24 million (US$24.3 million) in a Series C.

Hopes have been raised once again that US lawmakers could introduce an investment tax credit for energy storage.

Renewable energy company Statkraft participated in what it says was the largest dispatch of energy from battery storage to the Ireland grid to-date, on July 14th.

Another edition of our news in brief from the energy storage industry focusing on the bustling UK market.