Cost inflation and supply chain issues have forced California utility PG&E to increase the prices it will pay for 2GWh of battery storage projects, in a move which has been approved by regulators.

Last coal-fired power station in New Jersey demolished, with facility’s owner committing to deploying energy storage at the site.

United Airlines has become an investor in Natron Energy as the world’s first sodium-ion gigafactory is opened in China.

A 50MW/100MWh battery energy storage system, the largest in continental Europe, has been inaugurated in Belgium by developer Corsica Sole.

Vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) firm Invinity Energy Systems has secured a 15MWh order from industrial technology company Everdura in Taiwan, its largest to date.

Energy storage costs in the US grew 13% from Q1 2021 to Q1 2022, said the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in a cost benchmarking analysis.

KORE Power, a company developing a lithium-ion gigafactory project in the US, has closed the initial $75 million tranche of a US$150 million fundraising round.

National Grid Renewables has commenced operations at its Noble solar-plus-storage project in Denton County, Texas.

Irish government has launched a consultation to help direct the development of a policy framework for energy storage.

Approval granted in Australia for the first battery storage project to share grid connection point with an existing generation asset in National Electricity Market.