Rules on battery sustainability, performance and labelling will become more stringent within the European Union (EU).

The Q4 2022 edition of our downstream solar journal, PV Tech Power, includes comprehensive coverage of efforts to diversify the supply chain.

Residential battery storage capacity in Europe is set to reach 9.3GWh by the end of the year, according to SolarPower Europe.

Australia will launch a scheme to incentivise investment in the right mix of low-carbon energy sources and energy storage.

California utility PG&E has invited residential and commercial customers to enrol onto three vehicle-to-everything (V2X) programmes using EV batteries for a range of use cases.

ZincFive, a US company developing nickel-zinc battery technology for applications including data centre UPS has closed a Series D round.

Lithium-ion battery pack prices have gone up 7% in 2022, marking the first price rise since BloombergNEF began its surveys in 2010.

United Airlines has become an investor in Natron Energy as the world’s first sodium-ion gigafactory is opened in China.

Energy storage costs in the US grew 13% from Q1 2021 to Q1 2022, said the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in a cost benchmarking analysis.

Finland and California-based second life energy storage firms Cactos and Smartville Inc have raised nearly US$10 million to commercialise systems using repurposed Tesla EV batteries – we talk to both company founders.