Cameron Murray caught up with Jigar Shah, Director of the US Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office and one of the most influential figures in the US executive department’s drive to build out clean energy technologies.

A large-scale battery system has been brought online at the site of the former Hazelwood Power Station coal plant in Victoria, Australia.

Europe’s energy networks are united in their common need for energy storage to enable decarbonisation of the system while maintaining integrity and reliability of supply. What that looks like from a market perspective is evolving, write Naim El Chami and Vitor Gialdi Carvalho, of Clean Horizon.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will commit US$192 million in funding towards advancing battery recycling technologies.

‘Multi-day storage’ tech company Form Energy and US utility Georgia Power have sealed a “definitive agreement” for a grid-scale project.

Tesvolt’s new collaboration with Denios aims to “offer extremely safe energy storage systems to customers with special safety requirements”.

Alberta “is a great place to do solar,” where growth of renewables is creating need to deploy energy storage for its integration to the grid.

Financial performance will ultimately determine the success of AI-based battery storage optimisation platforms, Gridmatic told Energy-Storage.news in response to recent comments from one developer.

In a big week for the grid-scale energy storage market in Italy, regulators have approved new grid storage-specific auction rules and a chunk of Aura Power’s 500MW-plus pipeline of BESS projects.

Startup EnerVenue has won an order in Florida for 25MWh of its “uniquely differentiated” metal-hydrogen energy storage technology.