FlexGen has completed the first project in its 40MW buildout for a set of electric cooperative utilities in North Carolina.

ZincFive, a US company developing nickel-zinc battery technology for applications including data centre UPS has closed a Series D round.

American Battery Factory, a new firm planning a network of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery manufacturing facilities in the US, has chosen a site in Arizona for its first.

Lithium-ion battery pack prices have gone up 7% in 2022, marking the first price rise since BloombergNEF began its surveys in 2010.

Planned lithium-ion battery gigafactory capacity in the US has grown twice as fast as in Europe since the Inflation Reduction Act was passed, Benchmark Minerals Intelligence told Energy-Storage.news.

Engineering firm KBR will work with Shell to design an energy storage facility combining green hydrogen and battery storage at a wind farm off the coast of the Netherlands, the first of two similar pieces of news.

Last coal-fired power station in New Jersey demolished, with facility’s owner committing to deploying energy storage at the site.

Renewable energy firm Acciona Energia has launched a 16-chargepoint vehicle-to-grid (V2G) network in the Balearic Islands, the first in Spain.

United Airlines has become an investor in Natron Energy as the world’s first sodium-ion gigafactory is opened in China.

National Grid Renewables has commenced operations at its Noble solar-plus-storage project in Denton County, Texas.