The largest grid-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) project in the Czech Republic has gone online, supplied by a company invested in by lithium-ion OEM CATL. 

Energy-Storage.news Premium speaks with Mike Nagus, CEO of LiNova Energy, about the company’s recently launched “metal-free polymer cathode” battery.

Massachusetts’s Department of Energy Resources (DOER) has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for 1,000MW of energy storage in the US state.

IPP Prosalia has commissioned a 15MW/60MWh battery storage system at a solar PV plant in Portugal, while power group EDP has added one to a hybrid wind and solar project in Spain.

Iron-air battery company Ore Energy has raised US$43 million in a Series A funding round to commercialise its multi-day energy storage technology.

ESN Premium speaks with Fluence’s Jeff Monday and Sam Markham on the opportunity battery energy storage could provide data centres in Australia.

The Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB) of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has classified foreign-produced power inverters and “advanced robotic devices” as national security threats.

The European Commission (EC) has approved a financial support scheme to accelerate the deployment of battery storage technologies in Slovenia.

Samsung SDI is on track to begin production of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery cells in the US in the third quarter of this year.

BESS and solar have driven Australia past the halfway mark in NEM renewable penetration, but the technology mix is not yet broad enough.