Electric vehicles have been used to help balance the grid in what has been dubbed a first for vehicle-to-grid tech in the UK.

The past week has seen thermal energy storage solution companies strike or execute on commercial deals across Norway, Greece, Israel and South Africa.

AMTE Power, a UK-based manufacturer of batteries, has said its new sodium-ion cells are close to being ready to send out into the field for testing and validation.

Lithium-ion battery factory serving EV and ESS sectors has opened in New York State which could ramp-up to 38GWh annual production capacity.

The signing of the Inflation Reduction Act by US president Joe Biden has been considered a major step forward for clean energy.

This edition of news in brief focuses on recent developments in the US distributed energy resources (DER) market.

Turkish group Kontrolmatik Technologies has increased the output of its planned energy storage-focused gigafactory in the US by 50%, thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) which passed today.

President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act yesterday, bringing with it measures expected to boost prospects for energy storage.

On.Energy has raised US$100 million in project financing from UK fund SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust plc (SEEIT) for its US and Canada energy storage project deployments.

Anthony Price summarises what took place at this year’s International Flow Batteries Forum Summer Conference in Brussels, Belgium.