Vertically integrated energy storage company Kore Power is deploying a 41.2MWh BESS for a microgrid in Arkansas, US, with more downstream projects coming soon, president Jay Bellow told Energy-Storage.news.

ESS Inc. has received UL1973 certification for the battery modules in its utility and industrial flow battery energy storage systems.

The first phase of a residential battery storage program in the US state of New Hampshire has met all its conditions and saved the utility “more than expected” after an initial 100 units were deployed.

The European Commission support for manufacturing of clean energy technologies a “game changer” for making the battery industry competitive.

At World Smart Energy Week in Japan last week CATL, Jinkosolar and Sungrow exhibited battery storage products.

Norwegian firms Morrow Batteries and Eldrift have announced a non-binding offtake agreement for 1.5GWh of Morrow’s lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries.

Electriq Power, a US provider of battery storage solutions, has secured a deal that could be worth more than US$300 million.

European Commission’s categorisation of energy storage technologies in the Net Zero Industry Act is a “huge victory,” one source said.

Connecticut utilities Eversource, and UI and a quasi-state bank have together launched the next 100MW tranche of a programme aimed at incentivising 580MW of customer-sited energy storage projects.

Australian Vanadium has secured a site and progressed the design and development of a flow battery electrolyte facility in Western Australia.