The World Bank has provided guarantees for US$24 million of equity and shareholder loan investments into a 20MW solar-plus-storage project in Malawi.

E.ON spinout Uniper Energy Storage has received €2.75 million in EU grant funding towards a project to store hydrogen at scale in a salt cavern in Northern Germany.

The US Department of Energy has launched 140 programmes to advance equitable development of climate, sustainability, and health measures.

India’s government has added an Energy Storage Obligation alongside its Renewable Purchase Obligation for the first time.

Early engineering work has begun on a hybrid power plant project at a uranium mine in the Republic of Niger.

Enel Green Power has completed a wind-plus-storage facility while RWE just installed all inverters on its own, both in Texas.

State-owned power company PGE Group has obtained regulatory approval to build a 200MW/820MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Poland.

In the first half of this year, energy storage companies raised almost as much corporate funding as in the whole of 2021.

After falling by more than two-thirds in quarter one 2022, energy storage order intake increased 19% in quarter two for marine and energy solutions company Wärtsilä.

Portuguese utility EDP is to add energy storage to a hybrid floating solar and hydropower project after it was energised earlier this month.