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.

Intersolar Europe event saw a number of energy storage-related announcements from Chinese solar PV industry players.

Iron flow battery company ESS Inc continues to await recognition of revenues, but has “strong confidence” in its trajectory towards profitability.

A leaked draft version the policy strategy designed to liberate the European Union from ties to Russian fossil fuel imports, includes no mention of energy storage.

Eos Energy Enterprises added 65MWh of production capacity in the first quarter of this year.

European Union must develop coherent strategy on energy storage to achieve decarbonisation goals and end dependency on Russian fossil fuels.

Industrial battery storage systems can lower electricity costs for the facilities they are installed at, but could also help manage the cost of power for all consumers.

Energy storage deployment in the US is growing at a phenomenal pace. But the appetite for storage is much greater than the ability to build, and getting grid interconnection rights is often the biggest hurdle.

‘Smart’ energy storage provider Stem finished the first quarter of 2022 with an order backlog worth in excess of a half-billion dollars.

esla aims to reach annual deployments of energy storage totalling 1,500GWh by 2030, nearly four hundred times the amount it deployed last year, according to its 2021 recent impact report.