KORE Power, a company developing a lithium-ion gigafactory project in the US, has closed the initial $75 million tranche of a US$150 million fundraising round.

National Grid Renewables has commenced operations at its Noble solar-plus-storage project in Denton County, Texas.

A 30MW battery energy storage system has been inaugurated by transmission system operator (TSO) ISA CTEEP in Brazil.

Powin Energy will source components from SMA America for 2GW of battery storage systems.

Finland and California-based second life energy storage firms Cactos and Smartville Inc have raised nearly US$10 million to commercialise systems using repurposed Tesla EV batteries – we talk to both company founders.

Turkish company Kontrolmatik Technologies expects over US$900 million in incentives from the Inflation Reduction Act to 2032 for its US gigafactory, with Powin one of its first offtakers.

Utility Colbún has inaugurated a solar-plus-storage project with a 32MWh battery energy storage system in the Atacama region, the first of an 800MW deployment target.

Bushveld Minerals is restructuring its investment in vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) firm CellCube, increasing it slightly to 27.6%, as part of its own energy storage business carve-out.

It’s time the battery storage industry adopted an approach to servicing like the model widely adopted by the global solar PV industry.

The renewables arm of multinational energy firm Enel has started work on a project combining wind turbines and a 34MW battery energy storage system (BESS) in Chile.