Demand for electricity is growing in Ontario for the first time since 2005, and a new plan from the Canadian province sees a diverse low carbon energy portfolio as the answer.  

System integrator Eco Stor is planning to build a 300MW/600MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, one of the largest projects in Europe.

Regulators in the Eastern Caribbean island nation of Barbados have opened up a pathway for the widespread deployment of energy storage.

FREYR Battery, which is targeting the battery storage sector with its product line, has received a €100 million (US$112.29 million) grant commitment.

Reducing exposure to merchant risk is key to making banks comfortable with lending money for hybrid renewables-plus-storage projects.

California has passed 5GW of grid-scale battery storage energy storage (BESS) projects, grid operator CAISO has revealed.

Serentica Renewables has signed an offtake deal for 1.5GWh of pumped hydro energy storage in two Indian states with Greenko Group.

A seven-year observation of a vanadium flow battery in California from Sumitomo Electric has been completed, while US lab PNNL has found an alternative, food-based electrolyte which it said boosted capacity and longevity.

Lithium-ion battery and energy storage system (ESS) manufacturer Microvast has announced plans to set up an ESS manufacturing plant in Colorado, US, which will be operational this year.

The battery energy storage system (BESS) subsidiary of Canadian utility Hydro-Québec, EVLO Energy Storage, has announced its first project in the US.