The government of Western Australia has begun a drive to deploy at least 1,000 renewable energy off-grid power systems.

Investor-owned utility SDG&E and the City of San Diego are launching a dozen microgrid projects with energy storage across San Diego, California, following similar announcements elsewhere in the state.

Ambri has received an order in South Africa for a 300MW energy storage system based on its proprietary liquid metal battery technology.

Crossboundary Energy Access, an investment platform which is project financing solar-powered mini-grid projects in rural Africa, has secured US$50 million funding.

The government of Victoria, Australia, has opened a round of funding for ‘neighbourhood-scale’ battery storage.

Hitachi Energy will power the US’ first-ever primary vanadium source entirely from renewable energy in a partnership with Nevada Vanadium.

Gujarat will sign power purchase agreements for renewables paired with energy storage to bring electricity to off-grid villages.

The battery industry is at risk of falling into the trap of becoming too dependent on a single ingredient.

GE Renewable Energy will triple its solar and battery energy storage manufacturing capacity at its newly launched Renewable Hybrids factory in India by the end of 2022.

A front-of-meter microgrid combining 2.2MW of solar PV with a 9MWh battery has gone online in Humboldt County, northeast California, which its developers claim is the first of its kind.