A flow battery supply deal will accelerate a California municipal utility’s decarbonisation while derisking that process.

Recent policy announcements from the European Union could boost the energy storage market, an analyst says, but also reveal inherent weaknesses of the bloc’s free electricity market.

Supply chain constraints impacting the energy storage industry have come at a “critical” stage for the sector’s development, a BloombergNEF analyst has said.

Ambri system commissioned at Microsoft data centre reduces the use of fossil fuels and enables ancillary service market participation.

Energy storage industry figures were among attendees at a White House celebration event for the Inflation Reduction Act.

The US market is on course to reach 13.5GWh of energy storage installations during 2022, according to Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables.

Eos Energy Enterprises has progressed to the due diligence stage in its application for a share of US$2.5 billion in US government loans.

Some 2,000 residential battery systems in Belgium have been aggregated into a virtual power plant (VPP) and are providing balancing services to transmission system operator Elia.

Battery storage in homes and at businesses contributed to helping the CAISO grid in California afloat during recent difficulties.

Energy stored in batteries is being dispatched in large volumes in California as record-breaking hot weather brings crisis.