A new grid-scale battery storage development platform has launched in Australia with Oliver Yates, former CEO of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), as its chairman.  

Energy-Storage.news Premium hears how LFP import duties could encourage domestic supply chains to help meet demand for BESS in Turkey.

Quantumscape is ‘not revealing a commercialisation roadmap for non-automotive applications’ for its solid state battery, it told Energy-Storage.news, while 24M Technologies gave us an update on its latest ‘SemiSolid’ battery product.

Oil and gas major TotalEnergies has acquired Kyon Energy, one of the most active battery energy storage system (BESS) project developers in Germany.

Battery storage is playing an active role in helping New York City retire its fleet of peaker power plants, with around 700MW of its most polluting power generation assets already fully retired.

As storage plays an increasingly central role in the energy transition, so too is the importance of managing battery degradation. Giriraj Rathore of battery storage system integrator Wärtsilä Energy Storage & Optimisation explores some of the main strategies for successful battery augmentation, a key means of offsetting the impacts of system degradation.

As India’s Union government prepares the fiscal year 2024-2025 budget for its unveiling, trade group India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA) has offered some recommendations to support the technology.

Compressed air energy storage (CAES) firm Corre Energy has agreed an offtake and co-investment deal with utility Eneco for a project in Germany.

This Friday Briefing looks at some big new projects already announced this year and the new BloombergNEF Tier-1 BESS list.

Developer and operator Strata Clean Energy has started construction on its 255MW/1,020MWh Scatter Wash BESS project in Arizona, US.