Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer unveiled a roadmap to achieving environmental goals, including energy storage deployment targets.

Li-Cycle has been selected as preferred battery recycling partner to LG Chem and LG Energy Solution for their North America operations.

New York Power Authority has started a process of adapting fossil fuel peaker plant sites to host battery storage which could replace them. 

US national energy laboratory Berkeley Lab has released its top 10 findings from a research programme into renewable projects that pair generation with energy storage, so-called hybrid projects.

Vehicle-to-grid solutions provider Nuvve, along with a host of other groups, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the US Department of Energy to accelerate the commercialisation of V2G and other vehicle-grid integration technologies.

Amazon has added 37 new renewable energy projects to its portfolio, including two solar-plus-storage plants. 

Google hails project to retrofit data centre with battery storage as a step towards rolling out similar solutions across global fleet.

Battery storage companies raised US$17 billion in corporate funding in 2021 but have raised US$12.9 billion already this year. 

Construction work has started on a 30MWh pumped hydro storage project in Western Australia.

A region of southern California desert has the potential to become the hub of a “world-class lithium industry”.