Solar PV inverter manufacturer Sungrow has signed a 253MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) contract with Doral Renewable Energy Resources Group, its third in Israel this year.

Vanadium flow battery supplier Invinity Energy Systems has signed a memorandum of understanding with the power and industrial systems arm of Korean conglomerate Hyosung Corporation to commercialise its batteries in South Korea and elsewhere.

Group co-owned by State Grid Corporation of China and Singapore Power has halted investment into a hybrid project in South Australia. 

Redwood Materials CEO JB Straubel told a US Senate hearing his company already receives approximately 6GWh of end-of-life lithium-ion batteries for recycling annually. 

Powin Energy is the latest international company to target rising opportunities in India.

e-Zinc, which claims its zinc metal-based battery technology could provide low-cost, long-duration energy storage has raised US$25 million. 

Californian investor-owned utility San Diego Gas & Electric has released its decarbonisation roadmap study.

Japanese conglomerate Mitsui & Co. has invested in a 1,300MW wind-plus-solar-plus-storage project development in India.

Zinc battery energy storage system provider Eos Energy Systems finished 2021 with an order backlog of US$148.7 million and a net loss for the year of US$124.2 million.

A 214 acre site which will host a battery cell gigafactory in Arizona, US, has been acquired by KORE Power.