Green Mountain Power (GMP), a utility in the US state of Vermont, has requested approval on US$30 million in funding to expand a home battery energy storage scheme.

Lessons will be learned from an overheating incident at a thermal energy storage demonstration unit to which fire crews were called, the company behind the technology has said.

Global residential energy storage shipments fell year-on-year for the first time in the second quarter of 2023, S&P Global said, amidst less energy price volatility, high inventories and rising costs.

The transferability provisions under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in the US “will unlock billions” in capital for clean energy, said financing firm Evergrow as it claimed the first tax credit transfer transaction.

Malaysian manufacturing firm Leader Energy has tied up with BASF Stationary Energy Storage to develop long-duration energy storage projects in southeast Asia using the sodium-sulfur battery technology of NGK.

Four battery energy storage system (BESS) units at a Microsoft data centre in Sweden from Saft have entered operation, while ABB has added ZincFive as a technology supplier for its own UPS solutions.

Jigar Shah, the clean energy industry veteran leading the US Department of Energy Loan Programs Office, speaks with Energy-Storage.news.

The US Department of Defense Defense Innovation Unit will try out ‘prototype advanced energy systems’ based around LDES technologies.

Dr Alastair Martin of Flexitricity sheds light on negative energy pricing and the opportunity it represents for batteries.

Sodium-sulfur (NAS) battery storage manufacturer NGK Insulators has formed partnerships aimed at distributed and utility-scale segments.