The European Commission support for manufacturing of clean energy technologies a “game changer” for making the battery industry competitive.

At World Smart Energy Week in Japan last week CATL, Jinkosolar and Sungrow exhibited battery storage products.

The US is now taking the stance on climate change its European counterparts have been demanding for years, the Department of Energy’s Jigar Shah told Energy-Storage.news in a wide-ranging interview.

The Chile arm of global energy firm AES Corporation is looking to build another large co-located battery energy storage system (BESS), this time with a capacity of 2,710MWh.

Norwegian firms Morrow Batteries and Eldrift have announced a non-binding offtake agreement for 1.5GWh of Morrow’s lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries.

Electriq Power, a US provider of battery storage solutions, has secured a deal that could be worth more than US$300 million.

Amarenco has raised €300 million, enabling asset management firm Arjun Infrastructure Partners to acquire a minority stake in the company.

European Commission’s categorisation of energy storage technologies in the Net Zero Industry Act is a “huge victory,” one source said.

A solar-plus-storage project combining 300kW of PV and a 2MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) has been installed in the Polynesian archipelago nation of Tonga.

More than two-thirds of the planned lithium-ion battery production capacity in Europe is at risk of delay, downsizing or cancellation mainly due to the Inflation Reduction Act, according to a new study.