The secretary-general of the UN has highlighted the crucial role battery storage can play in tackling the global climate crisis.

European policymakers appear to have a blind spot when it comes to energy storage and its role in the transition away from fossil fuels.

Lithium-ion battery recycler Li-Cycle has opened its third recycling facility, in Arizona.

European Union plan to transition away from dependency on Russian fossil fuel imports has been released in draft form.

Construction has begun on a major hybrid renewable energy and storage plant in Andhra Pradesh, India.

Duke Energy’s carbon reduction plan for its Carolina businesses includes proposals for a “significant growth” in energy storage deployments.

Cellcube has signed a five-year agreement with an energy asset developer to deploy 1GW-plus of its vanadium redox flow batteries (VFRBs) in Southern Africa, but CEO Alexander Schoenfeldt tells Energy-Storage.news the company’s supply chain has a long way to go before getting to that kind of number.

Commercial operations have begun at the Hydrovolt battery recycling plant in Norway, a joint venture (JV) between Norwegian materials processing company Hydro and Sweden-headquartered lithium battery manufacturing startup Northvolt.

Battery energy storage system (BESS) capacity in Italy reached 587MW/1,227MWh in the first three months of 2022, of which 977MWh is distributed energy storage, according to the national renewables association, ANIE Rinnovabili.

The US government Department of Energy has issued a Request for Information as it prepares to rollout a package worth more than half a billion dollars to support development and commercialisation of long-duration energy storage.