State-owned power company PGE Group has obtained regulatory approval to build a 200MW/820MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Poland.

Tesla deployed more than a gigawatt-hour of battery storage in Q2 2022, but the company has been impacted by component supply issues.

In the first half of this year, energy storage companies raised almost as much corporate funding as in the whole of 2021.

After falling by more than two-thirds in quarter one 2022, energy storage order intake increased 19% in quarter two for marine and energy solutions company Wärtsilä.

Portuguese utility EDP is to add energy storage to a hybrid floating solar and hydropower project after it was energised earlier this month.

PPA has been signed for a large-scale solar-plus-storage power plant by a group of Arizona municipal utilities and local authorities.

Blackstone portfolio company Aypa Power has closed an US$88 million construction and term loan facility for Wolf Tank, a 173MWh standalone energy storage project in Texas.

Renewable energy power producers Scatec has started building three co-located solar projects with 1.1 GW hours of energy storage in South Africa, after achieving financial close.

US energy storage system integration services and software company FlexGen has raised US$100 million in a Series C funding round.

Andy Tang, VP of energy storage & optimisation for global energy technology group Wärtsilä, discusses software, supply chain, non-lithium storage technologies and more in this exclusive interview.