A 1.8MWh flow battery has been installed and energised at the European Marine Energy Centre test site in Scotland’s Orkney Isles.

This edition of news in brief focuses on recent developments in the US distributed energy resources (DER) market.

Anthony Price summarises what took place at this year’s International Flow Batteries Forum Summer Conference in Brussels, Belgium.

California investor-owned utility SDG&E has chosen Mitsubishi Power as supplier of battery storage to four microgrids in its service area.

ESS Inc has recognised revenues for the first time since publicly listing, while closing in on a 750MWh targeted annual production capacity.

Republic of Maldives has reopened a tender process, seeking to procure 40MWh of battery energy storage systems.

Onslow, Western Australia, is powered almost entirely by renewables, and the utility behind the project wants to roll out the technology.

When partnered with artificial intelligence (AI), the next generation of battery energy storage systems (BESS) will give rise to radical new opportunities.

The Inflation Reduction Act took a significant step forward over the weekend as US vice-president Kamala Harris cast a decisive vote.

Eos Energy Enterprises now has an order backlog worth US$457.3 million following a busy quarter for the US zinc-based battery storage solutions provider.